Dad, What’s a Record?

We parents had one of those “Oh, my, we feel old!” moments when our daughter floored us with a simple question.

Deciphering Sterlingspeak…

I’m fascinated by language, the English language to be more specific. Word origins, pronunciation, dialects, even the version of the language my two-and-a-half-year-old son Sterling seems to have created.

Today’s English Lesson: Homonyms

A homonym is a word that sounds exactly like another word and shares the same spelling, yet it means something different. Ready for some English language silliness?

I’m seeing Red. What are You Seeing?

Who’s to say that you see color the same way I do? After all, we’re all different, right?

A Computer Addiction, or Sickness…

With all this computer stuff humming around me, I’ve decided that I must be addicted to electromagnetic radiation.

Spam by Any Other Name is Still Spam

I’ve been receiving spam emails from a low-life domain-registration website that claims their spam is not spam. How ridiculous is that?!