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Archive for March, 2009

Nerd Word of the Day

nerd-word Every day we encounter nerdy words trying to find their way into the common vernacular.

Here, I will seek them out and expose them for the phonies that they are!

Some will succeed and become common words, others will (hopefully) die a painful death!

Be sure to sign up for this site’s email notifications so that you can be notified and therefore prepared for these words as we become aware of them!

Thanks to Alexandra Gorbokon, whom I met in the Twitterverse (OH NO!!! It’s one of those words!!) and her idea for the title of this section!

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Nerd Word of the Day: Twoogle

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Twoogle: asking your followers a question on Twitter, that could easily have been Googled instead.

Another word to go with my obsession with Twitter.

I’m certainly guilty of twoogling! Have you twoogled?

Annotate

Here is my remixed annotation video.  I wanted to re-upload it as I like the song (I wrote it :-) )

Please rate and comment over at YouTube to help it be seen.  Thanks!

YouTube asked partners to make a video explaining how to use a feature.  This is my video.

Alley-Oop

Origin of the term Alley-Oop.  I always thought it was a basketball term!

Please rate and comment over at YouTube to help me be seen.  Thanks!

Nerd Word of the Day: Celebutard

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Celebutard: (suh.LEB.yoo.tard) n. A famous stupid person.

A combination of celebutante and retard.

Celebutante itself was coined in 1939 and is a combination of celebrity and debutante.

Can you think of some celebutards?

Write them below. :-)

Nerd Word of the Day: Tourinauts

tourinautsTourinauts: Tourists that tag along on space flights.

The launch of the Soyuz TMA-14 this morning included another tourinaut, a repeat tourinaut mind you: Charles Simonyi.

Other tourinauts were:  Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth, Gregory Olsen and Anousheh Ansari – some paying as much as $20 million dollars for the trip.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has already plopped down $5 million dollars to be a tourinaut on a future flight, but investors in Google stock have been trying hard to keep him down on Earth! :-)

Thanks Bob for the suggestion!

Budget

All it takes is some thread and leather to make a good budget.

Please rate and comment over at YouTube to help my video be seen.  Thanks :-)

Changes at YouTube (that have had an effect on me)

angArrgh you say!

I spent about 4 hours writing a very detailed post about some of the changes that have occurred at YouTube that have ultimately impacted your experience here as well.  But I think a short post is probably better.  If you want more detail, let me know and I’ll do a longer post later.

The bottom line is that YouTube is making major changes in functionality almost daily. These changes have broken their site numerous times resulting in me not being able to upload as many videos as I used to.

These changes have also inadvertently resulted in ONLY videos appealing to young people being seen anymore.

When I say young.. I mean teenagers.

What that means for me is that I have had to make some videos that appeal to young people in order for my videos to be seen.

I don’t think this change will stick around forever… but while it’s here, I’m sorry,  I will have to upload some videos that may not be on words that are as sophisticated as we want them to be.. they will also be shorter than my typical videos (notice no intro anymore?)…. but I have to do this while YouTube tries to work out all the kinks.

So PLEASE bear with me through these tough times.  I don’t like being forced to do something I don’t want to do either!  But you know what?  Maybe we’ll all end up learning something from these young kids after all!  Don’t be so bitchassness.. no.. that’s not how you use that word.. stop showing all your bitchassnessness.. oh forget it.. I’ll never know how to use that word!

A nice post about me

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Nice blog post about me :-)  Check it out.

Funny video about Twitter

Here is a funny video that sums up Twitter :-)

Bonus

Here is the origin of the word bonus.

With a little AIG thrown in.. oh.. and name the dog :-)

Please rate and comment at YouTube to help the video be seen.  Thanks!

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