Category Archives: Potpourri

Seattle, then and now

April 22, 2003 – 12:25 pm
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Public science fiction authoring project

April 21, 2003 – 2:34 pm
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Rube Goldberg for Honda, Inc.

April 21, 2003 – 12:10 pm
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Lorem Ipsum

April 16, 2003 – 11:04 pm
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On a hiding to nothing

April 16, 2003 – 10:39 am

I ran across a phrase I’d never heard before this morning: “on a hiding to nothing”. A quick Google search later, and I ran across a definition from Dave Wilton at his site, Wordorigins.org:
The phrase dates to 1905 and is apparently from horse racing.

The phrase is used in situations where one is expected to win, [...]

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Chiasmus

April 15, 2003 – 10:33 am
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Really small art gallery

March 31, 2003 – 3:52 pm
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Iraqometer

March 28, 2003 – 11:57 am
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Real news about Iraq

March 27, 2003 – 4:01 pm
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Hi, Scott

March 24, 2003 – 8:06 am
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