March 16, 2010
Front and side views of the Motorola Droid
by Joyce Pellino Crane
After using the Android operating system for three months, living without it, would be like living without a car at my front door. It’s doable, but I’d have to readjust to a slow-boat mindset.
Truthfully, I don’t ever want to go back to a regular cell phone.
My Motorola Droid operates so closely to a mini laptop that it’s easy to take for granted the fingertip information and forget how amazing mobile access truly is. I not only receive email on my Smartphone, but I also receive email attachments—only a few mobile units have that capability and some require you to buy additional software to do so.
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February 12, 2010
It’s the Style, NOT Mensa Invitational
Dear Joyce:
Thanks for taking the time to check out the provenance of the “Mensa Invitational” list you then posted on your blog.
You’re so close, though.
The “blog post” (see below) you referred to was actually the introduction to one of the weekly contests of The Style Invitational, which I run. And two Style Invitational contests from 1998 are the sources of many — but not all — of the neologisms in the lists above. (For example, “decafalon” isn’t a one-letter change from “decathlon,” is it? Or “caterpallor”?) Much better to see the real thing — every week at washingtonpost.com/styleinvitational. read more »
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