Contranyms

Posted by Matt | Filed under Buried Treasure

Contranyms are so bad. By bad, I mean good.

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Read more | Comments (0) | June 13, 2008

That old saw about hammers and nails

Posted by Matt | Filed under Miscellany, Writing

Have you ever noticed that:
When you nail a point, it’s the same as when you hit the nail on the head? Both imply precision, even though nailing a picture to the wall is much different than squarely hitting a nail once. Congrats on not hitting your thumb, I guess.
Then you can hammer something. If you [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | May 21, 2008