I’m always on the hunt for new words. Not enough to use Word Of The Day Toilet Paper, but I’m definitely a word nerd. I even like that it rhymes.
So the other day I’m skimming through my Twitter feed, and I run across a word I’d never heard before. The word was “anisotropic.” Of course, I immediately determined to figure out what it meant and to drop it in the first conversation in which I could reasonably make it fit. It’s what I do. Go ahead, judge me.
The BBC’s got a great new iteration of Sherlock Holmes in the form of an hour-and-a-half TV show. That’s 90 minutes WITHOUT commercials. Basically they’re making Sherlock movies, and they’re good. The creators are definitely fans of the famous detective—in three episodes they’ve drawn heavily on the original canon. It’s worth watching, and you can find it on Netflix.
One of my favorite bits of Sherlockian lore is Holmes’ infamous ignorance. He refuses to learn facts about life that he deems useless. Dr Watson discovers that Holmes doesn’t even know that the Earth revolves around the Sun, and when enlightened, doesn't much care. “How can that information help me to solve crimes?” He demands of Watson. To him, it’s info not worth knowing. He determines to forget it.
In Kung Fu Panda 2, Po (Jack Black’s Panda character) finds himself in need of some information he’d previously thought of as irrelevant: where he came from.
I'm a fan of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, even though Pirates 2: Dead Man's Chest was ludicrous! But if you know me, you know that I like ludicrous. And Ludacris, for that matter. Ludii. lol!
So if you're wondering how the newest Pirates installment stacks up against its predecessors, you can check out my review here. Open wide and say "Arrrgh!"
Was that arrrgh line dumb? Sometimes I can't tell. You can let me know. I won't be offended :-).
I’m always on the hunt for new words. Not enough to use Word Of The Day Toilet Paper, but I’m definitely a word nerd. I even like that it rhymes.
