Although I am was not an English major and quite frankly I am usually at a loss for words especially when writing, I have always been fascinated by interesting words an their origins. For instance brouhaha definitely doesn’t seem to fit in with the English language but there it is. Last night I ran across an origin for a word I had never thought twice about. The word teamsters I had always assumed was just some reference to them being a union. When historically teamsters comes from the term teaming in the 19th centure(possibly earlier, but I am not sure) which was defined roughly as “driving a cart for hire.”
It’s definitely been interesting reading some older books, in this case Bram Stoker’s Dracula, that have been annotated and end up teaching you something new.
So if you haven’t already noticed I have mostly finished moving to Wordpress from Moveable Type. I liked MT in the beginning, but as time went on I was getting more and more spam and having to spend more time trying to clean it all up. Unfortunately when you spend so much time clean it up there isn’t much drive left to actually write in it. I’ve still got a few more things to iron out, but nothing major….that I know of.
Although if anyone knows of a plug-in or seperate program that will let me show a random image from my Flickr photos I would definitely be interested.
with DVDs!!!
I am cleaning out my old entertainment center in preparation for a new tv and entertainment center. Unfortunately in the meantime they have taken over my closet. It may not look like a lot, but the shelves are deep enough for 3 rows of dvds to fit!!
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