DRACONIAN
draconian |drəˈkōnēən; drā-|
adjective
(of laws or their application) excessively harsh and severe. Made famous recently from the Da Vinci Code, “O Draconian Devil” is an anagram for the name of “Leonardo Da Vinci”
NEPHEW
nephew |ˈnefyoō|
noun
a son of one’s brother or sister, or of one’s brother-in-law or sister-in-law.
ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French neveu, from Latin nepos ‘grandson, nephew,’ from an Indo-European root shared by Dutch neef and German Neffe.
Kick in the Gut
For those of you that know me, you are assured to get an earful about something sports related. Living in Dallas, we are spoiled by having local teams that do well and make us proud.
Last night, all of that ended. There is nothing left in Dallas at the moment to be proud of. The Dallas Mavericks were the first team in NBA history to lose the way they did. Winning a club record 67 games in the regular season, they were matched against the Golden State Warriors, a team that lost 25 less games, barely making in the playoffs. Making it even worse, We lost to a team that is coached by money grubbing Don Nelson.
My beloved Stars lost in the first round a couple weeks ago. At least I had the Mavs to count on to get my sports fix. NO! Way to go Mavs, I now have something else to be completely embarrassed by. So, lets wrap this up by this list of recent Dallas sports failures:
1. Dallas Mavericks ousted by Golden State
2. Dallas Stars beat yet again the first round by Vancouver
3. EDS Byron Nelson. Ugly Brown greens, and only 2 of the top 10 players in the World playing.
4. Texas Rangers Who? 2nd to last place in baseball
It is going to be a long long Summer.
CYCLIC
cyclic |ˈsīklik; ˈsik-|
occurring in cycles; regularly repeated : nature is replete with cyclic processes | the cyclic pattern of the last two decades.
Had the word cyclical in my head all day yesterday
PLACEBO
placebo |pləˈsēbō| noun ( pl. -bos)
a harmless pill, medicine, or procedure prescribed more for the psychological benefit to the patient than for any physiological effect : his Aunt Beatrice had been kept alive on sympathy and placebos for thirty years | [as adj. ]
placebo drugs. • a substance that has no therapeutic effect, used as a control in testing new drugs. • figurative a measure designed merely to calm or please someone.
Been a long time
It has been an embarrassing 7 month hiatus from this blog. Sad, I work on websites everyday and never work on my own. So, I am making a new commitment to this site. What will it get me? who knows, it will probably be a place where I can vent and test new and cool web apps. There you have it, hope to see you around!
