I have a smartphone. The auto-correct feature for typing is pretty good and allows you to add words to the dictionary it might not otherwise have. As it would be, I have 217 words that I’ve added to my dictionary and most of them are pretty silly/unnecessary. Here is the third part (check out the… Continue reading Teaching a Phone to Talk (Part 3)
Tag: za
Prize Fact’ry
Some of you already know my feelings about the word za, which is of course a “real” word. This, however, is not a “real” word: Prize Fact’ry? Come on, Fact’ry, really? No room for the letter ‘O’ here but instead of coming up with a new name (note: not even a real factory), we’re just… Continue reading Prize Fact’ry
Dismantling a Pizza Zax
Before I started this blog I never realized how much I thought about pizza, but here I am critiquing a pizza box. So, the other night my friends and I ordered pizza from our usual place, Inbound Pizza. They have a generic looking pizza box that I’ve seen at other places before: I have several issues… Continue reading Dismantling a Pizza Zax
Chicken Zax
It’s too bad this pizza place couldn’t find an actual pepperoni pizza to take a photo of and instead had to draw on their own, rather unhealthy looking, dots: I’d call this a “Photoshop fail,” but there’s little evidence pointing at anything more sophisticated than using Microsoft Paint on Windows 95 here.
Robots Makin’ Za
There is no doubt that commercials have been getting weirder and weirder the past few years, I imagine trying to catch the “youth demographic” or something like that. I have no problem with this, in fact if a commercial seems truly clever or original then I’ll give credit where credit is due. I caught this… Continue reading Robots Makin’ Za
Words That Lose Friends
I’m an avid player of Words with Friends, a Scrabble-like game for smartphones and Facebook. The trick to the game is not really having a big vocabulary, but more so to have absolute understanding of all the world’s short and somewhat cheap words (I’m looking at you, “qi.”) Recently I stumbled across the word “za,”… Continue reading Words That Lose Friends