Nothing funny about feldspar

So I was looking at some news website that was making me look at an ad before I even got to the first page. I happened to look at the URL and it had “prestitial” in the path.

“What?!” I thought. “That’s silly. Did they just make that up?”

Apparently they didn’t. Google tells us that the term has been in use for at least 2 years. It is an interesting extension of the language, though I’ll probably not use it ever again…

orthoclase [is] moderately annoyed by being told “some people have different pain thresholds.” Frack me.

I’m trying out a plugin (rss_more) to see if I can get the <!–more–> tag to cut off in RSS-feed posts. Useful for the Sunday Puzzle

(by the way, it seems to work)

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