Archive for the ‘Play’ Category
Band T-shirt
I often get this urge to make something pointless. Something that many people would ask me, “Why bother?” Today, I was walking around in my neighborhood, and I felt like making this logo so that I could slap it on to a T-shirt. I uploaded it to CafePress.
—posted by Dyske » Follow me on Twitter or on Facebook Page
Merry Christmas
This is a family portrait as seen from my wife’s perspective. I’m the robot.
I’ve decided that a good solution for the religious sensitivity around the holiday season is for the speaker to use one greeting consistently. So, if you are a Christian, say “Merry Christmas” to everyone. It does not matter what the receivers of the greetings believe in. For instance, in a typical exchange of greetings, a Christian would say to a Jew, “Merry Christmas” and the latter would reply back by saying, “Happy Hanukkah.” If we can all agree that it is about what the speaker believes in, not the receiver, then there is no need to be sensitive; we just say what we believe in, and embrace the spirit of whatever others believe in. Just testing again.
—posted by Dyske » Follow me on Twitter or on Facebook Page
My Claim to Fame
Here is the latest on my fame for coining the term “muffin-top.” Now it’s in New York Times Magazine. Can’t really get any better than that, to be recognized by William Safire. Every human being is put on this earth for a reason. Mine was this; to coin a popular term. So, the purpose of my life has been fulfilled. Now, I can relax.
—posted by Dyske » Follow me on Twitter or on Facebook Page
Muffin-top
It’s been my dream to coin a word that gets used by the general populace, and today my dream came true. This morning, I woke up to my wife calling my name excitedly. A local TV news channel, NY1, was describing an article in New York Daily News called “Muffin-top mayhem!” I coined that word, “muffin-top”, back in May of 2003, and I submitted it to pseudodictionary.com.
To prove the “Tipping Point” theory, would anyone be interested in funding a research to trace the word from the writer of the Daily News article back to me? It could be interesting to see how that particular “meme” was propagated.
—posted by Dyske » Follow me on Twitter or on Facebook Page
