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You know, browsers should have a feature where you can select a block of data on a webpage and 'view source' on that block. It'd make ripping off cool HTML tricks from others' websites a lot easier.
2005-10-01
Ubiety
From the Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition, ed. in chief David B. Guralnik, © 1980 Simon & Schuster, New York:
Wow. I love the idea that we have a word for this. Of course it's rare. Not too many situations which demand such terminology, I would think, but it's a simple enough concept that it deserves a seven-letter existence.
Let's see. This laptop is ubietous (if I may draw the parallel with "ubiquit(y/ous)"), as are most other concrete objects, but truth, justice, three, and most other abstractions are not. Also, an omnipresent deity (one of the most common kinds of deities) clearly lacks ubiety. Sweet.
u·bi·e·ty (u as in use, bi as in bite, ety as in sanity)* n. [ModL. ubeitas < L. ubi, where] [Now Rare] the condition of being in a particular place
Wow. I love the idea that we have a word for this. Of course it's rare. Not too many situations which demand such terminology, I would think, but it's a simple enough concept that it deserves a seven-letter existence.
Let's see. This laptop is ubietous (if I may draw the parallel with "ubiquit(y/ous)"), as are most other concrete objects, but truth, justice, three, and most other abstractions are not. Also, an omnipresent deity (one of the most common kinds of deities) clearly lacks ubiety. Sweet.
Q without U
As long as I'm posting good Scrabble® words:
qat: An African and Arabian plant (Catha edulis) whose leaves have a stimulating effect when chewed. Also used for tea. Also spelled "khat".
qintar: A unit of Albanian currency, valued at 1/100 lek.
qiviut: "[Esk.]", so I assume it's Eskimo; refers to a certain kind of musk ox hair.
qoph: Ninteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Also spelled "koph".
That's all that I found. If you have QE, you're stuck.
All definitions paraphrased from the Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition, ed. in chief David B. Guralnik, © 1980 Simon & Schuster, New York. Just so you know.
Oh, and LJ spellcheck recognizes none of them. Just so you know.
Edit: Strange, qanat isn't in there. I guess Mr. Guralnik considered ancient Arabic irrigation systems too obscure to include in a mere college dictionary – or he never heard of them. I won't hold it against him, of course; I know nothing about him, although he seems to have been a fascinating fellow (although now five years deceased).
qat: An African and Arabian plant (Catha edulis) whose leaves have a stimulating effect when chewed. Also used for tea. Also spelled "khat".
qintar: A unit of Albanian currency, valued at 1/100 lek.
qiviut: "[Esk.]", so I assume it's Eskimo; refers to a certain kind of musk ox hair.
qoph: Ninteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Also spelled "koph".
That's all that I found. If you have QE, you're stuck.
All definitions paraphrased from the Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition, ed. in chief David B. Guralnik, © 1980 Simon & Schuster, New York. Just so you know.
Oh, and LJ spellcheck recognizes none of them. Just so you know.
Edit: Strange, qanat isn't in there. I guess Mr. Guralnik considered ancient Arabic irrigation systems too obscure to include in a mere college dictionary – or he never heard of them. I won't hold it against him, of course; I know nothing about him, although he seems to have been a fascinating fellow (although now five years deceased).
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Color!
I was looking at my journal, and I finally decided to start fiddling with the color scheme. Looks pretty decent, doesn't it?
( The exact changes )
I like it. It seems to work.
( The exact changes )
I like it. It seems to work.