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Connotation. 1. a. The configuration of suggestive or associative implications consitiuting the general sense of an abstract espression beyond its literal, explicit sense. b. A secondary
meaning suggested by a word in addition to its literal meaning. 3. Logic The total of the attributes constituting the meaning of a term.
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10.31.2005
A few say I exist but that I'm actually dead. As evidence they point to the old gravestone in the cemetery with my name carved on it. But I have apologized for doing that and agreed to do community service.
--Posted by s. on Monday, October 31, 2005.
Halloween is a great Republician holiday,
You try to scare everyone out of their wits while gobbling up as much as you can.
--Posted by a. on Monday, October 31, 2005.
10.29.2005
The visual thesaurus is very cool. I'm not sure how helpful it would really be. But...very cool. I'd like to talk to whoever decided which words should be connected...that semantic network would be fun to tinker with.
--Posted by s. on Saturday, October 29, 2005.
10.28.2005
This is a fun game
You should play it.
--Posted by s. on Friday, October 28, 2005.
10.23.2005
Control experiments were made with other projectiles, as apple cores, cabbage runts, hats, roses, pumpkins, bullets, and ketchup (Heinz, 1952).
--Posted by s. on Sunday, October 23, 2005.
Staircases
We don't think enough about staircases.
Nothing was more beautiful in old houses than the staircases.
Nothing is uglier, colder, more hostile, meaner, in today's apartment buildings.
We should learn to live more on staircases. But how?
-Georges Perec, Species of Spaces
--Posted by s. on Sunday, October 23, 2005.
10.18.2005
I've been particularly uninspired as of late.
Thus the dearth of blog-posts.
aargh.
--Posted by s. on Tuesday, October 18, 2005.
10.10.2005
From Ned Block's "On a Confusion about a Function of Consciousness"
"...we would not feel tat our concept of a zombie had been toyed with if it turned out that there is something it is like for these zombies to eat their relatives. (They say "yumm!")"
--Posted by s. on Monday, October 10, 2005.
Stolen from planland (cause I'm lazy):
"In promulgating your esoteric cogitations or articulating your superficial sentimentalities, and
amicable philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosa.
Let your conversational communications possess a compacted conciseness, a clarified comprehensibility,
a coalescent cogency, and a concatenated consistency. Eschew obfuscation and all conglomeration of
flatulent garrulity, jejune rabblement, and asinine affectations. Let your extemporaneous descanting and
Unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and voracious vivacity without rodomontade or thrasonical bombast.
Sedulousy avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolificacy, and vain vapid verbosity." PLO
In short what Patrick Lumumba was telling his fellow commissioners at the Constitution of Kenya Review team
is : "Be brief and don't use big words."
--Posted by s. on Monday, October 10, 2005.
10.07.2005
Why did the archaeopteryx catch the worm?
Because it was an early bird!... (ha, ha)
--Posted by s. on Friday, October 07, 2005.
10.06.2005
You know, I thought last night that it would be kind of funny if the Nobel Orginization got into a fist fight over who should win the Peace Prize. True it's not the Peace Prize but
still...
--Posted by a. on Thursday, October 06, 2005.
10.02.2005
"Outside a dog a book is a man's best friend,
Inside a dog it's too dark to read."
"I never forget a face,
but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."
"Military justice is to justice,
what military music is to music."
"Women should be obscene and not heard."
"Go, and never darken my towels again."
Happy birthday Julius.
--Posted by a. on Sunday, October 02, 2005.
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