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REDIRECT ALERT! (Scroll down past this mess if you're trying to read an archived post. Thanks. No, really, thanks.)

Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.


Friday, January 30, 2004

Hm. Y'learn something new every day.

I was just now typing up another in my long series of fascinating meeting minutes, and instead of typing "...a dark terra cotta color...," I typed "a cark terra cotta color." I went back to change it and noticed that it didn't have the squiggelly line under it to indicate it was misspelled. I tried to click on it to get a synonym to no avail, then went off to the online dictionary and found a whole new word to abuse!

cark

PRONUNCIATION: kärk
TRANSITIVE & INTRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: carked, cark·ing, carks
To burden or be burdened with trouble; worry.
NOUN: A worry; a trouble: carks and cares.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English carken, from Norman French carquier, to burden, load, from Late Latin carricre. See cargo.

Now, instead of always typing ::sigh::, I can use ::cark:: !


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