In the last two days, we have witnessed the hummingbirds emerge from their shells (as “live” as possible without the help of a webcam). The first baby hatched sometime yesterday (Apr 12, 2009), the second one today (Apr 13, 2009)! Welcome to the world little ones!
Baby #1 has hatched (only one egg is broken, although [...]
There are two tiny eggs in Beatrice’s little nest! I’ve heard they are each about the size of a whole coffee bean! They must be tiny because the whole nest is about the size of a 1-year old’s fist.
Last week I received three interesting “words” (with definitions) in my word of the week poll on Mechanical Turk. Has anyone heard of these before?:
1) spatulamancy: divination using the shoulder bone of a sheep
2) Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic: describing the spa waters at Bath, England, is attributed to Dr. Edward Strother (1675-1737).
3) Sexy-Ugly: Someone who is not conventionally [...]
The stimulus bill passed last week and Saturday was Valentine’s day. With the exception of a ‘heartless’ and ’sexy-ugly’ there weren’t many other signs that V-day came and went.
Here are the Words of the Week for the week ending February 15, 2009:
What the heck did happen this week? It was busy and eventful for me (CSCW conference and now BarCamp), but it must have been generically busy and eventful for everyone else too. (Defenestration showed up again—one of my favorite words of all time!)
Here are the Words of the Week for the week ending on November [...]
