Smack, thud...ouch!!

Sorry for the lapse in posts....while riding my bike home from my chiropractor on August 7th, I had a nasty little run-in with a Chevy Cobalt that left me with a broken clavicle, torn rotator cuff and various other bumps, scrapes, bruises, etc. As a coworker put it, I am no longer a factory model. I made it to 30 (three days past 30 to be exact!) without breaking a bone or any other major injury, then bang.

Anyhow, typing is still a bit difficult but reading is not, so I will leave you with the below image to contemplate as I go back to studying PostgreSQL for my upcoming slew of entries!

Common Errors in English

First, I'd like to thank my lovely wife over at boneflowers.blogspot.com for this tip: Paul Brians breaks down the English language and tells its speakers how the language is commonly abused. Informative? Maybe. Amusing? Definitely!

Second, I'd like to dwell on it for a bit. Especially some of the ones that were particularly new to me. Like, for instance, the potential problem of catching flack for misusing of the word 'flak.' What? Oh, well, according to Brians,

"“Flak” is WW II airman’s slang for shells being fired at you in the air, so to catch a lot of flak is to feel in danger of being shot down. However, most civilians these days have never heard of “flak,” so they use “flack” instead, which originally meant “salesman” or “huckster.” You need to worry about this only if you’re among old-time veterans. "

Hmmm, I have to admit that I never knew that. Hopefully someone out there gets something out if it, if only a chuckle...afterall, I think we've all known that there was something funny about grammer, even if we could never put our fingers on it!