What in hell?

Or I may have done something horrible.

It's a new word: "Weblish", which means to publish online, usually in an official or paid capacity. As in "Hey, McSweeney's finally weblished my SotW profile!", or "Sally writes a lot of slash. Most of it just goes on fetish sites, but her Batman/Jack Shepard story got weblished on the Wall Street Journal site."

So it's kind of useful, as a contraction for online published, which will become more useful as time goes on. It's a portmanteau, which I generally like but I know some people hate them. It's also kind of horrible. I made it up, but I also think I hate it. So I'm putting it to a vote.

Poll #1383591 Moment of Truth
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

Should "weblish" be a word?

Current Location: Fort Victoria
Current Mood: creative

Yesterday I made a big mistake. After braving the very crap weather to buy groceries, I did something I've never done before: I used the word "Chillax."

I feel awful. I thought I could say it ironically, and that would make it funny, but I misunderestimated the power of that lame, lame word. It.. twisted things. I said to a friend on the phone, in a pretend sort of stoner/surfer voice, "yah, I'm just chillaxin'", and my god it wasn't funny. It wasn't any sort of good. God help me, I can't un-say it.

Someday when I die, I will go to my final judgment, and I'll be able to answer virtuously to most of the questions, like "Did you lead a moral life" and "You never voted Republican, did you...?", but at the end, when the vocabulary quiz comes up, that angel of mercy will ask me, "OK, for the grand prize - did you ever say the word 'chillax'?", and I'll have to say yes.

I can only hope that the fact that I tried to say it ironically, like "I'm using this word, but only because I trust us both to know what a stupid word it is," will be enough to shave off a few millenia of pain and torment. Maybe it isn't. I guess I deserve it. I've never really bought into the whole Heaven/Hell mess-up-and-you-burn-forever thing before, but now.. I kinda get it. I guess I just never messed up so badly before.

Anyway, now what?

Poll #1100330 Eryk's Happy Happy Lingo Repentance Poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12

Now that Eryk is damned forever for using the word "Chillax," what should he do?

On a scale of 1 to Bjork, what will Eryk's post-life suffering be like?

What are some words that are even worse than "Chillax"? Be creative, and type as many as you can think of.

Current Location: My tiny awesome apartment
Current Mood: dorky
Current Music: Cole Porter - Let's Do It

It's a list-fill-out thing. I went and answered "yes" on Kelly's "will you repost this" question, so I guess I have to. Because it's important to keep promises to yourself or whatever. Anyway, here's 28 questions for you to answer.

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I spent some time in the radioactive basement today, to put together a source holder for a test we're running tomorrow, and I learned two things. One, lead bricks are MF'ING HEAVY! I mean, yes, duh, they're lead bricks, but damn. I'm not used to needing two hands to carry something smaller than my forearm.

And second, Kehayias' team was using old-school 5 1/4" floppies as late as 1997. That's sort of cool on its own, but it really makes me worry about what kind of budget we're running on.

Current Location: Lab 420
Current Music: RHCP - Animal Bar

Count to thirty. Most of the puzzles involve typing something directly into the URL bar. Confusing at first, then just amazingly cool.

Stolen from Myfanwy - I was going to post it as a comment, but then I decided I want my friends to post theirs as comments here, so it gets a full post.

LANAGUAGES OF TEH LURVE, or something

Complete set of results
Physical Touch: 11
Words of Affirmation: 8
Quality Time: 5
Acts of Service: 3
Receiving Gifts: 3

Take the quiz

I feel like Gifts got kinda shafted on this quiz - it's a series of A-or-B questions, with each answer being related to one area or another. I seem to be overwhelmingly about touch and words, but if I were doing this myself I'd rank gifts nearer the middle, and quality time a bit higher. I think the results would be better for people without an extreme preference. (Of course, the fact that my reaction to this quiz is to try and discuss its methodology may have some bearing on why I answer questions about holding hands, instead of actually holding hands. ;P) Right on on the service bit, though - while it's fair to have one person cook and the other clean up, I always feel guilty when I'm not cleaning up (then again, I love it when Beck does her annual rearranging of my furniture).

Hmm.. the gifts I've liked best - a book of poetry, a Shel Silverstein book with "I love you" written at the end, and various little things with notes on them - kinda fall under Words, you know? And it's great, because then I can keep the gift, and look at it and remember the words. Touche, YouthNet South Hampton, touche. I don't know what to think of Time; when I'm in a relationship, I like to be around my partner, but we don't really have to be doing anything together all the time; just sharing the space feels good.

As per Les' instructions, please tell me a memory, of something involving you and me, that didn't actually happen. It can be an altered actual event, or something totally made up, but it has to be a memory. Don't worry if you think you're not very creative, or even if we never talk any more. Just do it. Seriously. All of you.

In other news, my email server has been down all day, and today in particular is a very bad day for that, seeing as I had several apartment-checking appointments that I cannot make tonight for unrelated reasons. So the one bad thing about having a kickass email address provided by your friends is that it isn't always on.

But don't comment about the email. Comment about the other thing. You know, that one that happened. Now I'm going to go to bed, so I can get up at 5:30 tomorrow morning and get to my rehearsal on time.