showing off the hottie designer in his underwear. I got home from class tonight, looked over, and WHAM, mostly naked man on-screen. (not that i’m complaining.)

Also: Christian — the youngest designer with the meticulously swoopy hair — is already getting on my nerves. He epitomizes “angertwink“, and his egomania is already old.

Tonight I heard the word “Wikipedia” used as a verb. (Actual context was something along the lines of “Can you Wikipedia that guy and find out when he died?”)

This isn’t the first time I’ve heard this usage, and I doubt it will be the last. It’s worth noting, however, that up until a few months ago the term “Wikipedia” would have caused a few baffled stares. Tonight’s usage appeared to be universally understood, though I will confess that I was not analyzing everyone’s body language or facial expressions.

If this becomes more widespread, then will “Wikipedia” also enter the OED as some other trademarked terms have? Would that dilute the Wikimedia Foundation’s trademark, or could it be a useful tool for branding? And will that FINALLY get people to stop using “wiki” and “Wikipedia” interchangeably, or will it just exacerbate the problem?

The word “wiki” will be entering the Oxford English Dictionary, that great bastion of the Mother Tongue.

This is especially cool considering the “reading process” used to populate the OED.

Relevant quote from the OED’s own history piece:

Many of the most consistently productive readers were not renowned scholars, but interested laypeople.

*pause*

Now think of the people who contribute to the wikis of the world. How many are (legitimately) “renowned scholars”? How many are just “interested laypeople”?

Mm-hmm.

I can go on about the formal review process too, but I think I’ll leave that discussion for somebody else.

I was coming down with something when I wrote my last post. Left work early (14:30ish) on Thursday and didn’t make it in on Friday. It didn’t feel flu-ish, but colds never really come with high fever or chills or body aches. (The body aches could have been microtrauma from my workout Wednesday, though.)

I’m mostly over whatever-it-was now. Still a bit sniffly, still coughing up phlegm (btw i love that word), and still hoarse from the coughing, but no longer dealing with 103-degree temps.

I really, really, really hate being sick. Not only does illness rob me of my independence, but it also gets boring fast. I can only handle so many hours of laying on the couch swathed in blankets and fever-warmth-hungry felines before I develop cabin fever.

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No, I still cannot believe that the Cardinals won the World Series.

No, I still cannot believe that they did it in five games over the Detroit Tigers.

No, I still cannot believe that their hodgepodge of a pitching staff was so dominating.

I can, however, believe the following:

• David Eckstein deserved to win Series MVP, not only for his home-field offense but also for his defensive contributions through all five games.
• Adam Wainwright has found himself a place in the majors.
• There were half a million people crammed downtown yesterday for the victory parade.
• The Republican Governor of Missouri got heartily booed by the crowd inside the stadium (~50K) nine days before an important election

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And speaking of the Cardinals, Brian Gunn (of my favorite former Cards blog ‘Redbird Nation’) has a great piece up on The Hardball Times meant to put whining to rest.

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During my sick-time, I played a fair amount of Civ. I’m getting good at the hyperaggressively-expansionist pro-science-n-culture anti-war kill-other-civs-with-fabulosity schtick… time to ramp up the number of opponents and difficulty.

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I don’t think I’ll be at the chorus rehearsal tonight… no voice + recently sick = anathema to other singers.

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’s all for now. More later.

I just spotted “lesbionic” elsewhere:

Happy Endings: Batdyke / Queerty

Of course, I’m just waiting for someone to refer to the elementary particle of dykitude, the “lesbion”. Then shall my coinage be complete.