Archive for the ‘ moderately orange ’ Category

Parthenocarpy

Does anyone follow M-W words of the day OR have a screensaver that displays words and definitions? I do.  I saw Parthenocarpy early this morning.  What a word! I have long believed that M-W has purposefully placed significant words to their daily postings.  I remember during the elections and during not-so democratic actions by the former administration, [ READ MORE ]

Update: Divorcing Google

I had no idea.  I didn’t think this would be sooooo much work.  Have you ever tried removing one application from google.  It’s about as fun as uninstalling something from microsoft. A few posts ago, I reported that I removed reader.google.com.  Today, to my surprise, my reader account was still active.  I tried removing my calendar.google.com [ READ MORE ]

Irreconcilable

I told a friend in a real face to face meeting about my plans to move forward without Google and his response was simple.  “It’s creepy enough that they’ve photographed your house!” Irreconcilable Differences – They Know Too Much Somebody, some agent of Google, stood (of drove) in front of my house, on my street, and took [ READ MORE ]

Google is Out to Get Me!

I read last week that Google.ORG is thinking the same thing that I am thinking, sort of. I was concerned. Not due to competing against THE GIANT, but worried because the announcement didn’t rattle me, didn’t deter me, didn’t disolve my confidence. Before I go further, I really really don’t like Lord Kelvin.  Google [ READ MORE ]