Dave

Learned: In English, “loanword” is a calque while “calque” is a loanword.

Ooh, just had a thought: iPhone 4 add-on - larger screen making the pixel size the same as ipad dpi levels.

Dear NYTimes, when writing about someone producing a video on YouTube & linking YouTube, go to that video, not your page explaining YouTube.

As usual, some amazing ballgame pics from @scottrovak My favorite on first look: twitpic.com/1x63y3

I do love a good rickshaw ride back to the car. Next time I’m opting for the canopy cover, though. #aBitWet

Enjoying a chocolate Hardee’s shake on indirect recommendation of @matthewhleach (who may be in this photo) twitpic.com/1x5dw8

Free pop hit song idea: a new limbo song.

ROWLAND-SMITH’s name goes 190 degrees around the back of his uniform and is too long for most of the graphic boards.

Watching Devo’s new album stream, with cats! twitpic.com/1x1pqs

Pre-ordering your next iPhone: There’s an app for that! Oh wait, there’s not. Just a broken web page that can’t handle the load.

I’m disappointed Rock Band: Green Day doesn’t have a Gilman St. venue. I was all ready to write the club angry letters about selling out.

Hating Photoshop CS5’s changing of my focus to the menu after I use an Alt shortcut (leading to beep & non-function of my next tool change).

Name the video game I just got: Rated Teen, Adolescents. Drug Reference Lyrics, Mild Blood.

Having trouble reading my phone. It’s so pixelly. I can’t believe I never noticed before. So very very pixelly.

Attack dogs are used for interrogations. A far more effective technique: give their neighbor a dog that howls & whines every morning at 4am.

Enjoyable email typo of the day: “Hope thongs are going well!”

Free movie idea: Remake Hitchcock’s The Birds, but this time, it’s the oil spill that’s pissed them off. And now they’re the good guys.

My Google personalized background is a security feature to stop anyone else from Googling on my computer: j.mp/as0Vqs

Declaring @__ & I mayors of our backyard: twitpic.com/1to8dk

Matthew wrote a pleasant little tribute to Gary Coleman, RIP: “You Weren’t Short On Charisma” files.woot.com/20100602-…

New theory: Umpire Jim Joyce is a robot time-traveller returned to set things straight. Or make them crooked. We’ll learn by Act Two.

Baseball’s been played 7 months a year for ~120 years, I guess. So 18 times in 840, and then 3 in 1. Or 18 in 25200 days & then 2 in 5.

Seriously, what are the odds that something happening 18 times in ~1320 months happens 3 times in the space of 1?

I use my iPhone like crazy & in the last 6 months I’ve not once hit 25% of at&t’s new proposed cap. Still might pay the extra $5 for now.

The only time it’s still embarrassing to talk about my game console is when I’m on the help line discussing how it’s broken & needs repairs.