Getting ready to go to sleep for the night, I reach behind me in bed to grab the blanket, get ahold of something fuzzy, and proceed to tug on the dog’s ear to cover myself

David Shire’s clown noir score for The Taking of Pelham 123. Imagine this playing whenever I enter a room.

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Zoomer zombie movie about “The Unalive”

Did I Do That? A Podcast About Graphic Designers Making Mistakes A podcast about graphic designers and the mistakes creative folks have to make on the way to making something great… or anything at all. Hosted by Sean Schumacher (Assistant Professor of Graphic Desig...

🎙️ I was invited on the Did I Do That? podcast, and you can hear the episode NOW. Includes my never-before-heard origin story as a designer, and probably several other anecdotes Sean was able to extract from me.

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Setup, backup, and login are nouns. Begin Setup Your login attempt See Latest Backup They can also be adjectives: Setup Assistant Login Window Backup Procedure They are NOT verbs: I setup my account First, login here How can I backup? Set up, back up, and log in are verbs. Let’s set up your account Click here to log in Back Up Now An easy way to test for this: put it in the past tense. If setup was a single-word verb, you would (goofily) say: I setupped my account. Next, I loginned. When I backupped, These are just three such verbs that include a preposition; there are many more. You know the difference between nouns and verbs. You can do this.

So many apps and websites out there get this wrong (given their focus on such verbs) that I finally sitdowned, rollupped my sleeves, and speakupped in visual form. A sign for me to tap in the future!

What’s your favorite old-timey disease that sounds like a startup blowing up at SXSW in 2009? I’ve gotta go with “dropsy”

Intro to Sketch Comedy Writing The official website for The Siren Theater in Portland, Oregon. Home of Bad Reputation Productions

PDX: If you've wanted to learn to write sketch comedy, my buddy Dave is teaching a class in town. It's a fun skill to have, whether you use it to put on a show, or apply it to other writing projects.

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Yay, April Fools Day—I LOVE April Fools!

TinyStart, a Tiny Launcher and Emoji Picker for Your Mac TinyStart, a tiny launcher for your Mac. Launch apps, insert Emojis, open Links and Folders, and more.

Big news!
I'm launching a tiny Mac app 🥺🔍🤏

It's called TinyStart, and it's a Launcher & Emoji picker! Unlike Spotlight, TinyStart is super fast at showing results, and it's not overcrowded with search results you don't need.

it's €5, you pay for it once and future updates are free! tinystart.app

First day of training at the Shaolin Temple. Master of the Fist Chamber places a solid oak panel before me; striking it repeatedly for months will strengthen my hand until I can punch through the wood. I punch the panel, instantly shattering my knuckles and losing the use of my right hand for life.

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Can’t watch Hard Boiled. Too political for me (boiling is leftist)

Ghrong of Thfung Clan: hrungh?

It’s also gonna have mayo

No doubt. And you can then slice it and pan-fry the slices 👌

I am 100% going to make this now

That’s a common occurrence in English, uh, outdated editorial cartoon man; but this isn’t a tenable example of it. The problem is not the shifting of a noun into a verb, but the grammatical morass the attached preposition pulls one into.

I can definitely relate! 🙂 Online tone is always going to be tricky. I think misunderstandings and mis-assumptions are ok if we can chat about the subject peacefully, to learn more.

Free, secret screening tonight at 8:00 PM. It's a cat movie. One of our staff members will be collecting donations via cash or Venmo to help cover surgery costs for their dear, sweet boy Milo, who is—coincidentally—a cat.

I agree with this sentiment; but it doesn’t mean that absolutely any change or pattern is sensible, desirable, or even intended.

You can just ask me! 🙂 The reason is that I truly believe it, and I intend that as encouragement. A correction will always be at least a little patronizing by its very nature; going more casual at the end is meant to deflate the often too-authoritative tone of corrections.

I know Apple thinks they've addressed this with Focus, but…… NAH.

And the one where here's a middle-school history teacher!

That's a rather different concern, and it doesn't cause the same issues. English has a long history of turning the shorter, simpler verb into the typical noun, as in show, talk, lift. Something like "ride" was a verb only for 600 years, but it's also been a common noun for 250 years since 🙂

Yes, they are! In English, most nouns can function as adjectives: House Speaker, mouse trap, computer screen. These differ a little from classic adjectives, as you note, but that is the role they take in a sentence. In other languages, you'd have to say "trap for mice" or "computer's screen."

Exactly!

I don't care much either way; the principle applies to both!

(If they use it as a noun, that's fine; English tends to compact such nouns, as with "high way" or "mouse trap." It doesn't lead to grammatical nonsense.)

Setup, backup, and login are nouns. Begin Setup Your login attempt See Latest Backup They can also be adjectives: Setup Assistant Login Window Backup Procedure They are NOT verbs: I setup my account First, login here How can I backup? Set up, back up, and log in are verbs. Let’s set up your account Click here to log in Back Up Now An easy way to test for this: put it in the past tense. If setup was a single-word verb, you would (goofily) say: I setupped my account. Next, I loginned. When I backupped, These are just three such verbs that include a preposition; there are many more. You know the difference between nouns and verbs. You can do this.

So many apps and websites out there get this wrong (given their focus on such verbs) that I finally sitdowned, rollupped my sleeves, and speakupped in visual form. A sign for me to tap in the future!