{"id":2680,"date":"2008-10-02T20:28:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T20:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2008-10-02T20:28:58","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T20:28:58","slug":"rip_fubsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/rip_fubsy\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. fubsy"},"content":{"rendered":"

okay, so i watch Eureka<\/a>. 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<\/a> is freaking HOT (for a blond).
\nin 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.
\nat 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<\/a> 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<\/a> has to say about the word “redact” is:<\/p>\n

Main Entry: re\u00b7dact<\/b>
\nPronunciation: \\ri-‘dakt\\
\nFunction: transitive verb
\nEtymology: Middle English, from Latin redactus, past participle of redigere
\nDate: 15th century
\n1: to put in writing : frame
\n2: to select or adapt (as by obscuring or removing sensitive information) for publication or release ; broadly : edit
\n3: to obscure or remove (text) from a document prior to publication or release<\/div>\n

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<\/a> and a couple of talking dinosaurs<\/a>, i learned that “fubsy” will be removed from the Collins dictionary. that will be a sad, sad day for the english language, that will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}