Sip of the Day - June 28, 2010
Sip of the Day - Windows 7: Filtering the Search Results
Titera's Tidbit: Flea Market
This unattractive English term, now largely replaced by "swap meet", derives from the French original Marche aux Puces, a market in Paris where inexpensive goods were bought and sold - the implication being that such goods were covered with fleas (puces in French).
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Sip of the Day - June 14, 2010
Sip of the Day - Windows 7: Using Saved Searches
Titera's Tidbit: Mock
The present word means to make fun or deride someone, but its Middle English ancestor mokken meant "to wipe one's nose", from the Latin muccere, related to our word "mucus". The transference comes from the snorting sound of a snuffly nose being blown, apparently a popular way to show scorn in days past.
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Sip of the Day - June 7, 2010
Sip of the Day - Windows 7: Creating Custom Libraries
Titera's Tidbit: Adulterate
Someone who commits adultery is doing something very adult indeed, but an adulterator is doing something quite different by making something that is comparatively pure (an eighteen-year-old Scotch whisky, say) less so, in this instance by diluting it with water. The sense derives from the Latin adulterare, meaning "to make other".
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Sip of the Day - June 2, 2010
Sip of the Day - Windows 7: Libraries vs. Folders
Titera's Tidbit: Hobson's Choice
Travelers in 17th-century England often found themselves doing business with a man named Tobias Hobson, who rented horses throughout the southeast. His practice was to receive a customer's money, then lead out whichever horse happened to be standing closest to the door, regardless of what the customer might have asked for. Thus a "Hobson's choice", a term still used today, is no choice at all.
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Super Sip Sound Site - Soundation Studio Music Mixer
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Sip of the Day - May 24, 2010
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Titera's Tidbit: Croissant
The "croissant" owes its origins to the Ottoman Turks who invaded Central Europe, bearing their flag with its image of the crescent moon. When they besieged Vienna in 1683, the Turks expected quick victory buy were instead defeated by a force of allies, including France. Viennese cooks celebrated with a new kind of puffed pastry that they called "croissant", the French word meaning "crescent".
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Sip of the Day - May 17, 2010
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Titera's Tidbit: Intel
In 1968, electrical engineers Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore founded a semiconductor firm that would become central to the manufacture of PC's a decade later. They first called thier company after themselves, then changed the name to Integrated Electronics. When they discovered that another business had got to the name first, they used the abbreviation "Intel", by which the company has become world famous.
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The Coke Bottle Cheat Sheet
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Sip of the Day - May 10, 2010
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Titera's Tidbit: Quintessential
As the movie starring Bruce Willis has it, The Fifth Element is the thing of which the heavens are made, ruling over the four elements of our world: earth, wind, fire, and water. In Latin, this fifth substance is the quinta essentia, the without-which-nothing quest of the early alchemists, who believed it could not only produce gold but also yield eternal life.
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Sip of the Day - May 3, 2010
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Titera's Tidbit: Bada-Bing
Made famous by movies such as Casino and the TV serial The Sopranos, the tough-talk slang term "bada-bing" is reckoned to be onomato- poectic, incorporating the sound of a pistol going off. The phrase first appears in crime fiction in the 1960s, and its orgins are obsure; some think that it comes from the Neapolitan pronunciation of the Italian phrase vada bene, which means, "Watch your step."
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Sip of the Day - April 22, 2010
Sip of the Day - Windows 7: Sticky Notes
Titera's Tidbit: Lemon
A native of the foothills of the Himalaya Mountains, the "lemon" took its time reaching Europe through overland trade routes. Northern Europeans called it by its Latin name, some variant of citron, whereas southern Europeans, directly in contact with Arab traders, borrowed the Arabic limum, the Arab verstion of the Chinese name for the fruit, limung.
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Sip of the Day - April 12, 2010
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Titera's Tidbit: Cravat
This old-fashioned word for necktie comes from the French word cravate, meaning "of Croatia". When French soldiers entered the region during the Napoleonic Wars, they were greeted by enthusiastic Croatians glad to be rid of Austrain rule. The Croatian men wore red kerchiefs tucked into their collars, and they gave these kerchiefs to the newcomers as a token of their esteem.
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Adobe Creative Suite 5 Unveiled
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Super Sip Scenery - Mosquito Range, San Isabel Forest, Colorado
Mosquito Range, San Isabel National Forest
Wildflowers blossom in the Mosquito Range of theSan Isabel National Forest.
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