Month: October 2010

For the past several months I had been entering my fuel data into a really nifty web application called MyMileMarker.

As you entered each successive fill-up the application would chart your mpg. Not only that it was estimate the odometer reading of your next fill-up based on previous usage.

Unfortunately it would appear that this site is now more. I went to it yesterday to enter my latest fill-up to find that the site had disappeared, only to be replaced by a parking page by their webhost.

Maybe someone else will come up with a similar site.

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So what’s it take to get you to remember a television commercial?

Sometimes it a catchy phrase, like “OMG, INBD!”

But more likely it is a catchy song.  Here are some of my current favorites:

Kia Spectra
Just Can’t Seem to Get it Right Today – Joe Purdy
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IitjbUD_VUc

Apple MacBook Air
New Soul – Yael Naim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YUxbDEPFiM

Apple iPhone
Perfect Timing This Morning – Orba Squara
http://www.myspace.com/orbasquara

What are some of yours?

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Shows like CSI, Law and Order and Bones, throw around a lot of interesting phrases in Latin. While you may not care to study Latin, here’s a few that are fun: caveat utilitor – let the user beware condemnant quod non intellegunt – they condemn what they do not understand deus ex machina – god […]

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Do you ever use a phrase that you heard growing up as a child that no one else around you understands?  Frequently I find myself having to explain the meaning behind a phrase to my student assistants. One of the latest ones is the phrase bar pit. Now, I don’t recall whether I heard this […]

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Shows like CSI, Law and Order and Bones, throw around a lot of interesting phrases in Latin. While you may not care to study Latin, here’s a few that are fun:

• caveat utilitor – let the user beware
• condemnant quod non intellegunt – they condemn what they do not understand
• deus ex machina – god of the machine
• Roma aeterna – Rome is eternal

For some more fun phrases in Latin check out the entry List of Latin phrases (full) on Wikipedia and the latinproverbs wiki.

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Do you ever use a phrase that you heard growing up as a child that no one else around you understands?  Frequently I find myself having to explain the meaning behind a phrase to my student assistants.

One of the latest ones is the phrase bar pit.

Now, I don’t recall whether I heard this from my parents or someone else growing up, but the explanation is quite simple.  And the explanation itself includes a colloquial corruption of a word as well.

Often when you are driving down the highway, at least in South Georgia, you will see large tracts of land where large pit have been created by removing dirt for DOT projects.

These are the bar pits and this term comes from the fact that it is a pit where they are barrying the dirt from.  Now the word barry is itself a corruption of the word borrow.

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