Category: Supercool

I love words. I love new words. Neologisms tickle my fancy, float my boat and make me laugh and sing. Frankenwords, portmanteaus, newspeak. doublespeak, buzzwords, nadsat. I heart you all. Here’s my top 5 for this week:

1. Ambient Calculus – a form notation used to describe and theorise about mobile systems. (via Wikipedia)
2. Nodishness – nodishness is about the boundary between the personal and the collective. (via headmap)
3. Portmanteau / frankenword – a word that is formed by combining two or more words. (okay, not strictly a neologism, but new for me – again via Wikipedia)
4. MoSoSo – acronym for Mobile Social Software. (via Wired Magazine)
5. Relationship – When two people decide to fall in love, usually resulting in lots of stuff for the woman, loss of bank account for the man. It could also end up in marriage.

(13:02:11) ChrisGetsTheGirl: I have a book of taxi-driver-quotations that Robyn gave me years ago…
(13:02:20) ChrisGetsTheGirl: My favourite is the one from some Arab dude:
(13:02:39) ChrisGetsTheGirl: “Bike messengers. They search for death.”

One of the great things about living in NYC is the enormous numbers of pizza joints in the city – it seems like every three steps you take there will be a hole in the wall ejecting slices oozing with melted cheese and tomato sauce. The problem is, if you’re new in town, it’s fairly difficult to discover how to separate the merely average slice from the melt-in-your mouth thin crust goodness that can elevate you to a higher plane of existence for the few minutes it takes you to wolf it down. Until now that is, well, until now that I discovered Slice – the Pizza Blog. I remember Mark Argo telling me about this site when we went to go see the Will Ferrell / Ben Stiller / Owen Wilson-mafia flick Anchorman but was never motivated enough to find it until today. Ack. I’m drooling all over my keyboard, I’m running off to Muzzarella to grab a slice.

Songs to wear pants to is an awesome site. My roommate Matt just turned me onto this guy – you send him email – he writes you songs. It’s like Eric conveys an emotion but for music – brilliant!