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A Derivative Podcast is Not a Financial InstrumentThe word “derivative” sprung up on Delancey Place last week. Delancey Place is a brief daily email with an interesting excerpt or quote from a book or magazine article. Reading it is a favorite daily ritual. I am constantly impressed with the quality and diversity of the excerpts. I strongly recommend [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Happy Father’s Day From Mark TwainToday I would like to honor fathers and especially my father, Keith, with a quote from Mark Twain:
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
A Derivative Podcast is Not a Financial InstrumentThe word “derivative” sprung up on Delancey Place last week. Delancey Place is a brief daily email with an interesting excerpt or quote from a book or magazine article. Reading it is a favorite daily ritual. I am constantly impressed with the quality and diversity of the excerpts. I strongly recommend [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
A Derivative Podcast is Not a Financial Instrument
PlayThe word "derivative" sprung up on Delancey Place last week. Delancey Place is a brief daily email with an interesting excerpt or quote from a book or magazine article. Reading it is one of my favorite daily rituals. I am constantly impressed with the quality and diversity of the excerpts. I strongly recommend subscribing. It is free and now available as an poorly publicized but full text RSS feed. You can subscribe at DelanceyPlace.com.
The word derivative can be found in many c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Happy Father's Day From Mark Twain
Happy Father's Day!
PlayToday I would like to honor fathers and especially my father, Keith, with a quote from Mark Twain:
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
I love this quote because it captures the feelings I think most sons have about their fathers. During adolescence we tend to think our father don't really know what th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
A copacetic podcastToday's word, copacetic, is a favorite of mine. Although I too often forget to use it.Copacetic is an adjective meaning completely or entirely satisfactory. I think its connotation is much more positive then satisfactory. For example if a boss told me my work was satisfactory I would be concerned it wasn't very good, that it was barely above unsatisfactory. But if they described the situation or my projects as copacetic I would be much happier.The etymology of copacetic is murky at best ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcasting has a symbol but it is not as ubiquitous as the trefoil
I cannot apologize enough for the dearth of recent posts.
Today I came across an interesting word in an editorial by Cory Doctorow at the New York Times. Cory's editorial draws our attention to cheap programmable microchips that allow nearly anybody with an idea for a simple electronic device, say a whimsical watch or a feral robot dog, to produce one cheaply and in their own home.
The word is trefoil. Trefoil is a noun. A trefoil is any three leafed symbol. The best known trefoi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dell's Inanity Is Not Insanity, Just Frustrating
PlayI came across today's word in David Pogue's New York Times Circuits email newsletter. The word is inanity. When I first read it I suspected it was a typo; that Pogue meant insanity. As the author of many typos I was quite excited to find a typo in a New York Times article.
Alas, inanity is a word. It is an noun meaning total lack of meaning, or or as Merriam-Webster puts it, "the quality or state of being inane." Something that is inane lacks a point or significance.
Pogue's art ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Great Poems on English Language Idiosyncrasies
PlayOver at Boing Boing, I came across a link to some great poems on the idiosyncracies of spelling and pronounciation in the English language. They don't make for a great podcast. The joy is in reading them.
Here is my favorite:
WHY ENGLISH IS SO HARD TO LEARN
We must polish the Polish furniture.
He could lead if he would get the lead out.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
The soldier decided to desert in the desert.
This was ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Equanimity in a Desperate Podcast
I heard Felicity Huffman use the word equanimity on NPR's All Things Considered. Felicity Huffman plays Lynette on Desperate Housewives and recently received an Oscar nomination for her staring role in Transamerica- the story of a man who becomes a woman then discovers she has a teenage son.
The interview focuses on motherhood as it applies in the movie and in Desperate Housewives. Huffman uses equanimity to summarize one of the characteristics she observes in other mothers and asp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Happy Mardi Gras, Enjoy Ash Wednesday!
Happy Mardi Gras! Today I would take a little time to discuss Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday, Carnival and Lent.
Lent is the forty day Christian fasting season leading up to Easter. Christians, particularly Catholics, mark the period by giving up meat or some pleasure or comfort.
Carnival is the two week celebration leading up to Lent. The most famous Carnival is celebrated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I am sure you have seen the photos of revelers. The last day, the culmination of Carni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Happy Millionth Wikipedia!
Today, March 1st, 2006, the one millionth English article was published at Wikipedia by Ewan Macdonald.
From the Jordanhill Railway Station article:
The Jordanhill Railway Station is a suburban railway station in the Jordanhill area on the west side of Glasgow, Scotland. The station (code "JOR"), which is governed by Transport Scotland and managed by First ScotRail, lies on the Argyle Line and the North Clyde Line. It is located near the Jordanhill Campus of the University of Strathcl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
No, I have not fallen into an oubliette
Oubliette, this word popped up on two sites in one day so I had to include it in a podcast.
Oublette, as you can probably tell from the sound of oubliette is a French noun. An oubliette is a dungeon or cave with only an opening at the top. A hole in the ground could be an oubliette. A trap door in the floor may lead to an oubliette.Of the two pages that brought oubliette to my attention, the first, at kinkless.com, used oubliette on its 404- page-not-found error page. I clicked on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Serendipity on the radio, soon in a podcastWelcome to the 131st Today's Podcast. November 1st marked the one year anniversary of Today's Podcast. This year my goal is to produce over 200 shows. Much closer to my promise of a daily show.Today's word is serendipity. I was reminded of this word by a recent interview with Yvon Choulnard on NPR'sDay to Day. No podcasts for Day to Day yet. But NPR does offer some podcasts.Only a few days before the interview I was in Boston for StartUpSchool. I stayed with some friends, one of whom ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Mea Culpa- Adam Curry's favorite bit of latin for podcastingWelcome back. Today we have a celebrity inspired term, Mea Culpa.Recently Bill Gates used it when describing MS's failure to dominate the online music industry."Mea culpa" is a latin phrase uttered to accept guilt. It translates to "my fault." I think people like using the phrase because it is psychologically easier to say than "my fault."Bill Gates use of mea culpa is interesting. While I am sure Bill thinks he can dominate anything he directs MS to tackle. Apologizing for not domina ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Heliotropes- Plants and Zonker podcastWhile putting together yesterday's podcast on zoetrope I came across today's word- heliotrope.Heliotrope is a noun with several definitions. One is a purple or violet color. Another heliotrope is a surveying tool for civil engineers and map makers. It allows them to focus a beam of sunlight and signal a fellow surveyor up to twenty miles away. Using the heliotrope's signaling the engineerscan triangulate locations. These heliotropes are not used anymore. A heliotrope is any member of t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Zoetrope Becomes a Movie PodcastZoetrope in motionOriginally uploaded by tempo.On a recommendation from Michael Geohegan I watched the Francis Ford Coppola movie the Conversation. Great movie.Frequent listeners of this podcast know I enjoy reading the credits. Well the credits for the Conversation include the name of Coppola's production company Zoetrope. What a beautiful word. And a great name for a movie company.A Zoetrope is a primitive movie toy that spins to animate a series of images. It is hard to describe so I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The next elections will include a potemkin podcast eventToday's word, Potemkin, is an entertaining political term. I have seen it on Boingboing.net many times. Recently it appeared in a post about the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin was an 18th century Russian military officer and politician. Who was rumored to have built fake villages along the banks of the Dnieper river in order to impress EmpressCatherine II. Potemkin, who had recently conquered the area, wanted to impress Catherine II by demo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Getting to work proving podcasting is rightToday we have a quote sent in by a listener. It is a quote I really appreciate because I am guilty of the behavior described. The words are from John Kenneth Galbraith a Canadian economist just like me.Here is the quote:Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.-John Kenneth GalbraithI doubt I am the only soul guilty of this tendency. Hopefully this quote will make us more aware of our stubbornnessa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dave&Adam are podcast wonksToday's word, wonk, was spotted at boingboing.net.The dictionary describes the noun wonk as an excessively studious student, a nerd or a geek. The modern connotation is more nuanced. Today wonk usually connotes a someone well versed or at least very interested in the details and rules.The BoingBoing post describes Ben Hammersley as an RSS wonk- someone who know a great deal about the inner working and details of RSS. I suspect Dave Winer is the ultimate RSS wonk. Dave wrote the specs for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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