Lucifugous: avoiding light
what a boring definition for a fantastic word. Sound like it should be part of the latin name for a bipedal sentient fungus that's ultra-sensitive to UV radiation.
In fact, maybe it is...
in other news, I am very excited about my trip this weekend. We're going to stop in Des Moines for dinner with Frizzonkity, then take the kids to their grandparents in Omaha. Friday morning Audrey gets a haircut (and I might, too), and we hit the road for St Louis, where we'll be attending lesley and nick's wedding! And I think we get to play at the city museum, which i have heard much of and never visited. And i get to help audrey assemble many cupcakes.
And I will try to avoid any run-ins with Lucifugous Megapoidia
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
Very fitting WotD
Cachinnate - to laugh loudly or immoderately.
This is awesome. I even like the word immoderately from the definition. I actually need to practice cachinnation, because I just got cast as Willy Wonka! I imagine this will require that I cachinnate frequently, or at least occasionally.
I am very, very excited, especially to see what the director and design team have come up with as presentation style for this show. I hear that the design team is the same group that delivered Snow White here last season, which was wonderfully rich in concept and fascinatingly slanted in presentation. In particular, I want to talk about what sort of hair/make-up/costume ideas they have for Mr. Wonka. I'm hoping that if i keep growing my hair, it will be long enough to use without a wig, maybe dyed orange and gooped into a wild, spiky mane.
A couple other cool words of the day that I have missed, but liked: bilocation, the state of being in two places at once (I believe this is the next scheduled update for the wonkavator). Also beek, which had somethign to do with getting cozy in front of a fire, and made me think of Audrey sitting, nay beeking, in front of the computer with a blanket and space heater. My wife is a very skilled beeker.
Okay. This update was just written from a gadget on my igoogle homepage, so lets see if it works before I go any further.
This is awesome. I even like the word immoderately from the definition. I actually need to practice cachinnation, because I just got cast as Willy Wonka! I imagine this will require that I cachinnate frequently, or at least occasionally.
I am very, very excited, especially to see what the director and design team have come up with as presentation style for this show. I hear that the design team is the same group that delivered Snow White here last season, which was wonderfully rich in concept and fascinatingly slanted in presentation. In particular, I want to talk about what sort of hair/make-up/costume ideas they have for Mr. Wonka. I'm hoping that if i keep growing my hair, it will be long enough to use without a wig, maybe dyed orange and gooped into a wild, spiky mane.
A couple other cool words of the day that I have missed, but liked: bilocation, the state of being in two places at once (I believe this is the next scheduled update for the wonkavator). Also beek, which had somethign to do with getting cozy in front of a fire, and made me think of Audrey sitting, nay beeking, in front of the computer with a blanket and space heater. My wife is a very skilled beeker.
Okay. This update was just written from a gadget on my igoogle homepage, so lets see if it works before I go any further.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Anacoluthia
i like just saying this one - but it gets better. Anacoluthia is a term for garbled grammatical structure. And an anacoluthon is a rhetorical term for 'a construciton involving a break in grammatical sequence'.
It also sounds like a good name for a very small European nation, probably where everyone speaks in an agrammatical manner. Already sounds like someplace I want to visit. And probably someplace that will quickly turn up on a map of some new fantasy world I create.
Speaking of, I decided to play with Obsidian portal by using it to collect ideas. I can make personal notes to myself on each page about what I stole the idea from, or what i was reading or doing that influenced me. Maybe it will turn into a new campaign world.
Today I am auditioning for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! In keeping with the valorous ideal of honesty, I will say that I really really really want to play Willy Wonka. I don't know what age they want to cast him as, or if I have an animated enough look to pull it off, but I would have ever so much fun. Ever. So. Much. Assuming I don't get sucked into an Anacoluthian Vortex between now and 7-9pm tonight, I'll audition and know the result on Friday.
It also sounds like a good name for a very small European nation, probably where everyone speaks in an agrammatical manner. Already sounds like someplace I want to visit. And probably someplace that will quickly turn up on a map of some new fantasy world I create.
Speaking of, I decided to play with Obsidian portal by using it to collect ideas. I can make personal notes to myself on each page about what I stole the idea from, or what i was reading or doing that influenced me. Maybe it will turn into a new campaign world.
Today I am auditioning for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! In keeping with the valorous ideal of honesty, I will say that I really really really want to play Willy Wonka. I don't know what age they want to cast him as, or if I have an animated enough look to pull it off, but I would have ever so much fun. Ever. So. Much. Assuming I don't get sucked into an Anacoluthian Vortex between now and 7-9pm tonight, I'll audition and know the result on Friday.
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