Yeah I hurt, but it's a good kind of hurt. (Well, mostly...)

I was up until two this morning working on a desk and honing my woodworking skills.

I learned the following lessons:

1. Ryobas are awesome.
2. It's really easy to get sidetracked for a couple of hours making wooden jaws for your vice.
3. As awesome as ryoba are, they're not good for making right-angled internal cuts. They are, however, fantastic for making parallel cuts to help chop out the joint, which should then be done with a hammer and chisel.
4. I need a bigger chisel.
5. I can simultaneously chop out a joint and help revise applications over AIM after midnight.
6. Tearout sucks. I need to be more careful when chopping out joints and do a deeper prechop at the inside edge of the side that I'm not chopping from.
7. Staying up until 2 AM on a school night really sucks, but it still may have been worth it...
8. I really love projects like this, especially now that I'm getting to the point where my workspace is set up to facilitate them more

Even with the fact that I am bleary and feel like I have little to no energy or motivation today, it's a sort of content bleary lethargy. While I was working (once I got past the hassles with the vice), I was in that space that feels like it's got boundless energy. I stopped at 2 AM but I felt like I could have gone for a couple of hours more if I wasn't already going to be regretting it today. I want to explore that more!

Snickers, you Fail. {Pointless and futile grammatical ranting at Mars, Incorporated}

One of the ways that Snickers is currently advertising is through the use of made up words. The one I got on my Snickers bar today was:

Substantialiscious \sub-'stan(t)-shu-'li-shus\ (noun). The weight of something when you weigh it with your tongue.

First off, what kind of a sentence is that for a definition? No self-respecting dictionary (except possibly urban dictionaries) uses the second person voice. Secondly, a noun? WTF? Weight is a noun. As in, you can say "What is the weight of that thing?" Try saying "What is the substantialicious of that thing?" and it sounds ridiculous. Why? Because words that end in "ious" are adjectives!

Allow me to close with another example of why that word should not be a noun:

My brain hates your stupid definition even as my tongue savors your substantialiscious.

[PS I blame the sleep deprivation]