There is a search engine, for Jack Vance’s entire body of work.  TOTALITY, “The Vance Vocabulary Search Tool’.

I can now say that ‘nuncupatory’ was used 11 times in total, and ‘punctilio’, 33.  I find this immensely pleasing.

‘Krim drew himself up to his full height. He spoke [...]]]> How did I never know about this??

There is a search engine, for Jack Vance’s entire body of work.  TOTALITY, “The Vance Vocabulary Search Tool’.

I can now say that ‘nuncupatory’ was used 11 times in total, and ‘punctilio’, 33.  I find this immensely pleasing.

‘Krim drew himself up to his full height. He spoke severely. “I object to that entire imputation, sir; it is irrelevant, prejudicial and nuncupatory. Further, no grounds have been laid.”‘

Although, I tried ‘moue’ – which only returned 1 record. This seems wrong. I’m pretty sure Madouc was fond of the odd moué.

You can only search for words returning less than 50 results. Otherwise you will see this rather charming error message.

Too many results (more than 50). Your question is nuncupatory.

Please refine your query. Adding a leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present in each row that is returned.
examples:

+Cugel +beer -Bunderwal
“question is nuncupatory”

him: I have decided that my socks are better because I do not have to look and see which is for the left and the right foot.

me: ..but feet are not bilaterally symmetrical are they? So it does make sense to have differenty shaped socks.

It may only be 99p to rent, but it's two hours of your life you will never get back.

Frank Millar reference FYI (this image is all over the interwebs, [...]]]> A film where absolutely nothing happens in a quite spectacular fashion. In tiny sailor outfits. With swords. Sometimes explosions. AND DRAGONS. Murdered dragons.

It may only be 99p to rent, but it's two hours of your life you will never get back.

Frank Millar reference FYI (this image is all over the interwebs, I’ve no idea who to attribute it to).

'but they kick ass' is not an acceptable defence

My letting agent’s recruitment process:

and

I started making a new design for webanorak a while back.  It had some fun transparent overlay tricks for making javascripty bobbling clouds of content look lovely. It had png24 pattern overlays for that not so THIS IS THE FUTURE, MAN! WEB 2.0 sameness all over the everywhere.

I then left it [...]]]> or, design gestalt..

I started making a new design for webanorak a while back.  It had some fun transparent overlay tricks for making javascripty bobbling clouds of content look lovely. It had png24 pattern overlays for that not so THIS IS THE FUTURE, MAN! WEB 2.0 sameness all over the everywhere.

I then left it in it’s little box for a while after the initial enthusiasm was side-tracked by puppies or kittens or head trauma or something. Looking at it again, and comparing it to all the lovely I AM THE FUTURE bleeding edge of cool sites out there now my design blends in to the crowd.

very dull.

Feck it. CSS sprite menus are retro cool.

handy infographic

If someone sends you a link via some kind of chat medium, I suggest perhaps ‘Are you a cheese?’ as a call/response HUMANPERSON test.  If they respond that they are indeed a cheese, or ‘eeeeeeeeee’, [...]]]> Hijacked accounts and zombie computers are a significant threat to the grammar police all over the everywhere.

handy infographic

If someone sends you a link via some kind of chat medium, I suggest perhaps ‘Are you a cheese?’ as a call/response HUMANPERSON test.  If they respond that they are indeed a cheese, or ‘eeeeeeeeee’, or ‘what are you talking about you moron, have you even LOOKED at the hilarious kittens yet?’ then they probably are a real person sending you nonsense of merely dubious provenance.

I make no guarantees.

INURCOMPUTER: what’s up?
me: huh?
INURCOMPUTER: hahahaha, I’m in SHOCK right now..
me: are you an exciting virus? how exciting.
INURCOMPUTER: http://www.plep.com/rapingURcomputer – WOW use that real quick and tell me its not crazy..
me: oh I don’t think so.
INURCOMPUTER: they are soooo right! lol what’s it saying for you?
me: cheese spoon banana!
INURCOMPUTER: plz u have to tell me, fill it out..I have to know if your results were as crazy as mine lol
me: no thanks
INURCOMPUTER: ur missing out these songs are HOTT!!!
me: go away little virus bot.
INURCOMPUTER: no problem! PEACE!!
INURCOMPUTER: hey, are you still there?

(no.)

INURCOMPUTER: hey tiff, hope you had a great presidents day off yesterday!!
me: if I was one of them ‘merkins I might have.
me: how are you?
INURCOMPUTER: I want you to try something real quick
me:bong bing spam bam
INURCOMPUTER: okay tiff, take this quiz and see what you score.. I can’t get over like a 110, its ridiculous http://imnotreallyaquizhahaha.plep, sally scored like a 112 and I’ve been trying to beat them!!
me:what a cheeky little scammer you are
me:how rude
me:if I was a cheese what kind of cheese would I be?
INURCOMPUTER:lemme know what ya get plz

(no.)

INURCOMPUTER: hey, I just scored 112 on My IQ test, this is supposed to be really accurate. Tell me what you get http://BRAINZTEST.US

(no.)

INURCOMPUTER: hey there…

(no.)

INURCOMPUTER: hey cutie

(no.)

INURCOMPUTER: hey there…

(no.)

URLs have been obfuscated for the protection of the innocent/idiotic.

It had a tatty burgundy leather-look plastic strap which was a bit of a disaster, so after a little poking around the intertubes, I bought a lovely [...]]]> I found my first ‘proper’ watch the other day, my grandparents bought it for me in Switzerland – so clearly, it is the most proper of proper watches.

It had a tatty burgundy leather-look plastic strap which was a bit of a disaster, so after a little poking around the intertubes, I bought a lovely plain 12mm Birkenstock with double loops and stainless steel bits and bobs. Sensibles.

See how sensibles.

sensibles.

See.

best. watch. ever. Eyes boogle to the beat of 'Carry on my Wayward Son'.

Do you? See?

IN UR REALITY