Archive for October, 2004

And the tide rises, the tide falls.

Posted in Explaining on October 18th, 2004 by avi – 41 Comments

I wrote this program today to find what I’ve been calling “combo words”. Basically, you find one word that ends with a certain sequence of letters and then another word that begins with that same sequence of letters and it smushes them together into a fancy, new word. I’ve found that there are plenty of really dumb and boring examples of this, for example, “daydreaming” (daydream + dreaming). However, there are quite a few very amusing ones:

elephantoms
circumspectroscopy
bittersweetener
floundertaking
transpacification
permissionary
benedictionaries

etc, etc. Come up with your own! It’s fun! You can also run my program to get a big list and cheat, like me. :)

I wished they’d stay away

Posted in Today I Ate Soup on October 14th, 2004 by avi – 4 Comments

Some general updates:

New art. (Yay!) (New art is at the very bottom.)

Also, a new project. This one was fun.

The dreary intercourse of daily life,

Posted in Today I Ate Soup on October 2nd, 2004 by avi – 4 Comments

My dinner last night:

A Healthy Dinner
(Click for bigger)

Quite a feast!