Public Service Announcement: A Dictionary Is Not An Authoritative Source On The Set Meanings Of Words,

Public service announcement: A dictionary is not an authoritative source on the set meanings of words, but rather a report on how words are used by people. No, seriously. Words change meaning over time, and definitions aren't set in stone; dictionaries adapt to reflect this.

Why do schools have uniforms?

Why are people expected to wear a suit when they go to a job interview?

Why do people always worry about how they look?

Why does our society insist on oversexualizing everything?

It's not like outer appearance changes the person on the inside.

To clear up some common misconceptions:

Weird is good. Strange is bad.

Smart is how much you know, intelligent is what you do with it.

Sympathy is having been there; empathy is feeling it without having been there; apathy is not feeling at all.

Bravery is choosing not to be afraid, courage is being afraid and doing it anyway.

This Monday is the upcoming Monday; next Monday is the one after that.

Hearing is sound passing into your ear. Listening is thinking about what the sound means.

Took fourth place in this week's GameXplain tournament. I had first at one point! Then the other players beat me out. Oh well, I'll take it. Congrats to everyone involved!

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Ray Hargreaves, 2P START!

Keepsakes

There's a weird pocket in the top right corner of my browser that houses a mishmash of various urls. It's called the "Other Bookmarks" folder, and despite its generic name, its contents are carefully chosen. If I deem it intelligent, hilarious, thoughtful, unique, or otherwise extraordinary, it receives the honor of being inside. (The only anomaly is the end, to which is appended the next video in whatever series I'm watching; this is hardly an exception, however, as I wouldn't be watching it if it weren't somewhat entertaining.)

Okay, so perhaps I made it sound better than it really is. But I thought to myself: Why do I do this? To reread them later? No, because I almost never do that with anything. To show them to other people? I rarely get the chance to do so. So why not post them?

Here are its current contents. Be warned that some of these may be disagreeable, distracting, or NSFW.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/top10/2645.html http://www.mother4game.com/ http://www.siliconera.com/2013/12/03/emulating-megadrive-3ds-isnt-easy-enter-3d-sonic-hedgehog/ http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/12/2/5143856/no-girls-allowed http://jay-machalani.squarespace.com/blog/2013/12/12/fixing-windows-8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtxhSQiduMk http://worldsbiggestpacman.com/ http://tmi.kotaku.com/the-indie-game-reality-tv-show-that-went-to-hell-1555599284/