GrantBarrett
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@ Huckle is worse: he seems the type who locks himself in the pantry after scarfing the soft center of bread loaves.
6:10 AM Nov 24th
from Nambu
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Latest radio show: 1930s criminal slang, James Ellroy, hear hear, brand-new, tam, cockpit, skywalkers, more...
5:52 AM Nov 24th
from Ping.fm
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If you are dieting, do not live near a churrascaria joint. The apartment smells like roasted beef fat. Yum.
10:13 PM Nov 23rd
from Ping.fm
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Don't ever tell me, "If Wikipedia is wrong, you can just fix it yourself!" Every time I do, some dirt-eating butt-picker craps on it.
9:09 PM Nov 23rd
from Ping.fm
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A bit of ABBA in Latin: (listen to the pronunciation)
3:02 PM Nov 23rd
from Ping.fm
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"Hot minute," "red-hot minute," and "hot second" all mean "right now" or "very soon." The opposite meaning is rare.
5:07 PM Nov 19th
from TweetDeck
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Renfaire video hilarity:
12:57 PM Nov 18th
from TweetDeck
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Watching online and waiting for @ to speak at Web 2.0 Expo.
11:27 AM Nov 18th
from TweetDeck
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@ Dear @, we googled that for you: "Unfriend" is real, though old.
4:49 PM Nov 17th
from Nambu
in reply to mnmpls
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My son, commenting on his first day at a new preschool: "I will ’scape, jump into my seat, and come home to you!"
3:29 PM Nov 17th
from Ping.fm
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@ Bah. "Unfriend" is five-year-old slang. Oxford doesn't get the last word!
7:49 AM Nov 17th
from Nambu
in reply to hughesviews
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Now accepting nominations for the 2009 “word of the year” and the 2000-9 “word of the decade&..
3:01 PM Nov 15th
from twitterfeed
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Use to nominate word year/decade in Twitter (hash clash: = "women of the year") @ @ @
1:15 PM Nov 15th
from Nambu
in reply to Fritinancy
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Now accepting nominations for the 2009 word of the year and the 2000-9 word of the decade.
12:39 PM Nov 15th
from Ping.fm
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So nice to come home from dinner with the family and have the mellow harshed by another stupid IT adventure with the idiots at DreamHost.
8:19 PM Nov 13th
from Ping.fm
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Matt, I'm sorry for ten years of pain. My first link to Metafilter in 1999 was a self-link.
8:16 PM Nov 12th
from Nambu
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224 words that were new to a dictionary editor (me!) The odd meanings, of course.
1:55 PM Nov 12th
from Ping.fm
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@ Miriam has it right. The main thing about agents to me is that they free up a writer's time for writing.
7:49 AM Nov 11th
from Nambu
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Latest episode of the radio show: learning Latin, influence of Spanish on English, how the cow ate the cabbage, more.
5:26 AM Nov 10th
from Ping.fm
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@ The radio show address will do, as will any other address you find for me. As the canned response says, we read everything.
9:11 PM Nov 9th
from Nambu
in reply to jastrub
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- Name Grant Barrett
- Location grantbarrett
- Web http://www.waywor...
- Bio Lexicographer and radio host. http://www.google.com/profiles/grantbarrett
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