Sure, language moves on, yada yada, and usage shifts to what people most like the sound of, and “enormity” in particular somehow sounds more erudite than “enormousness”, so many people think it must be a more correct word for something that is huge or immense. Yeah, no.
nerdery
Whimsy: Nerdy Love Song
With Added Kitten Bonus, by TheRealDeAnne
When nerdiverses collide
Cue your fansquee, SF telly geeks.
Friday Hoyden: Nieceblogging – what’s she making?
Here she is bonding with her Dad over the Christmas break by doing a little gadget construction. Bonding with your daughters doing electronics, woodwork, mechanics or baking: A very feminist thing to do over the holidays and there should be a lot more of it.
Sunday Star Wars: I find your lack of dancing…disturbing
Darth Vader vs Emperor Palpatine dance-off – this is a thing now. Please treat this as a general whimsy and weirdness thread – what have you spotted in the wild recently that you feel you just have to share?
Squee-Files: Galactic Suburbia nominated for a Hugo!
Congratulations to the fine women of Galactic Suburbia! Here’s how Alisa, Alex and Tansy open the summary of their latest podcast in response:
More My-Neck-Hurts pseudoblogging
Thor-vs-Green-Lantern-squee. Well played, ItsJustSomeRandomGuy.
Oh Noes, we missed Star Wars Day
Because who doesn’t love a truly horrible pun?
My moaning, let me show you it
Hatesss the nastiessss, yesssssss.
This should go up on Auntie’s website
Chatting to a comedian (who shall remain nameless) last night…