if i were to start posting daily digests of my witty, amusing, thoughtful and creative twitter tweets here on ye olde blog, would those of you who read both my website and my twitter be annoyed with the duplication? please leave me a comment with your answer. if it is a truly unwanted idea, i will scrap it. thanks a bunch!
October 2008 Archives
christopher has been eying the Wii Zapper (with Link's Crossbow Training game) ever since he first saw it at EB Games. but, probably because of my disapproving tsks he never purchased it for himself.
well, friday when i picked him up he has the Toys'R'Us flyer out to show me, in which the Wii Zapper is on sale for $9.97 - a little over $10 off their regular price. the sale didn't start until Saturday, so we took the flyer with us on the premise we'd go buy it at someplace in my neighbourhood and just get them to price match it.
just before we took off yesterday afternoon for shopping & voting in the rain, i thought to check Futureshop.ca to a) ensure they still price matched; and, b) ensure they had the item in stock. the answer to both was yes, so we headed out.
we found the Zapper on the shelf, got inappropriately chatted to by a pink- & purple-haired sales associate, then, after extricating ourselves from the uncomfortable conversation, i took it up to the counter. i said to the clerk "i have a competitor's ad!" as i put the item on the counter. he asked where it was from, i replied. he found their price and goggled at it, then did a little fast verbal math:
"okay $25 minus $10 is $15. 10 percent of that is $1.50. how about i give it to you for $7.97?"
yes, please!
every once in a while i get a retail deal which pleases me to no end. this is one of them (also, that time everything i bought at Save-On was on sale - score!). a $25 video game and accessory for $8.93 after taxes? that's a STEAL! i'm still giddy about it, which is amusing because, as the title states, it wasn't even my money!
okay, so i watch Eureka. it's filmed locally and, despite it's awesome cheesiness, it's just plain fun. it's kinda nice to think about a town full of geniuses fully funded by the government to create anything they want. and, well, the actor who plays Sheriff Carter is freaking HOT (for a blond).
in this season's episodes, a potentially evil female boss has come to town and is trying to make the experiments money-making in order to bring more cash back to the governmental coffers. in her quest for stream-lining and cost-efficiency, she's been handing out "redactions" all over town, effectively firing half the staff at Global Dynamics - the company under whose umbrella most research in Eureka is done.
at first, i wondered about the word. i'd never heard it before. i didn't think too long on it, though, just chalking it up to new corporate-speak i would try my best to ignore for as long as possible. then, today, in a blog post by my friend Andrea, she used the word and it got me curious because her usage was not what i'd have expected after the Eureka context had introduced me to it. what Merriam-Webster has to say about the word "redact" is:
Main Entry: re·dact
Pronunciation: \ri-'dakt\
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin redactus, past participle of redigere
Date: 15th century
Pronunciation: \ri-'dakt\
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin redactus, past participle of redigere
Date: 15th century
1: to put in writing : frame
2: to select or adapt (as by obscuring or removing sensitive information) for publication or release ; broadly : edit
3: to obscure or remove (text) from a document prior to publication or release
do you see anything in that definition to even remotely mean terminate employment? sometimes it bugs me how words get mucked up. then again, thanks to Gillian and a couple of talking dinosaurs, i learned that "fubsy" will be removed from the Collins dictionary. that will be a sad, sad day for the english language, that will.
