emend
Verb
- make improvements or corrections to; “the text was emended in the second edition”
- Less specific
- better
- improve
- amend
- ameliorate
- meliorate
- Less specific
emend - LookUp
verb
- make corrections and revisions to (a text) these studies show him collating manuscripts and emending texts
alter (something that is incorrect) the year of his death might need to be emended to 652
Origin
late Middle English : from Latin emendare , from e- (variant of ex- ) out of + menda a fault . Compare with amend
Thesaurus
Verb
- the journalistic practice of emending quotations in the areas of grammar and syntax
Similar Words: correct rectify repair fix improve enhance polish refine clarify edit alter rewrite revise copy-edit subedit amend change modify redraft recast rephrase reword rework rescript expurgate censor redact bowdlerize
Urban Dictionary
**1. Making amends through an email message, especially when applying the 9th principle of The 12 Step program of Alcoholics Anonymous.
- Saying sorry or trying to right a wrong through email.**
“Instead of directly facing me and clearing things up, the jerk sent me an emend. He’ll never make it through the program.”
verve
Noun
- an energetic style
- Synonyms
- vitality
- Less specific
- energy
- muscularity
- vigor
- vigour
- vim
- More specific
- sparkle
- twinkle
- spark
- light
- Related
- lively
- vital
- Synonyms
verve - LookUp
noun
- vigour and spirit or enthusiasm Kollo sings with supreme verve and flexibility
Origin
late 17th century (denoting special talent in writing): from French , vigour , earlier form of expression , from Latin verba words
Thesaurus
Noun
- I played most sports with schoolboy verve
Similar Words: enthusiasm vigour energy pep dynamism go elan vitality vivacity buoyancy liveliness animation sprightliness zest sparkle effervescence fizz spirit spiritedness ebullience life dash brio fervour gusto eagerness keenness passion zeal relish feeling ardour fire fieriness drive forcefulness force strength determination motivation push vehemence fanaticism zing zip vim punch get-up-and-go pizzazz oomph feistiness
Urban Dictionary
**Originally called simply Verve until conflicts with the jazz label Verve caused the name-change to The Verve.
Famous for their hit songs Bittersweet Symphony, The Drugs Don’t Work and others.
The band split up after their final (and arguably greatest) 1997 album Urban Hymns, but still nothing quite equals them today. They don’t write a few hit songs and a lot of filler, they write a whole CD of great music.**
“Cause it’s a bitter sweet symphony, that’s life.”
iPhone 4S

Given the current state of Dropbox Paper (can't even trust the metadata,) I can't be entirely sure why exactly my [original draft](https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Reviewed-Rock-Springs-Wyoming--CO7txZrHgjwhlVC8diO8fx2xAQ-jeE4RlaRHowleHZOkQqb4
<img id=“rss_item_695105665021136960” src=“https://pxscdn.com/public/m/_v2/3377/7321b8e85-c3df53/VPt8zHQ0h054/MTtA7xzvxJ8UOQumY1BhYnArBNFJmX9oNiVqrO4f.jpg" alt=“A printed newspaper front page, featuring headlines and articles along with an image of a smiling man receiving a flower from a woman in a crowded room. The newspaper title “Rocket-Miner” is prominent at the top.">
Given the current state of Dropbox Paper (can’t even trust the metadata,) I can’t be entirely sure why exactly my [original draft](https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Reviewed-Rock-Springs-Wyoming--CO7txZrHgjwhlVC8diO8fx2xAQ-jeE4RlaRHowleHZOkQqb4) of the mid-Missouri-to-Portland journey story - which included a failed tire slashing and our disquieting realization (at 1AM or something) that we were very near - if not right on top of - the scene of the worst anti-Asian-American massacre in the country’s history - never appeared in any of the dozens of export attempts from that service I’ve attempted over the years.
Yesterday morning, a friend’s inquiry into the pursuit of owning a Jaguar like mine led me to realize this, and you would not believe how much time I spent spinning my wheels to get the original text from Paper to what [you can now experience on The Psalms](https://bilge.world/rock-springs-wyoming). I hope some entertainment might still be gained from it.
#travel #creepy #americana
Working Copy App Store Review
My absolute favorite Git client… on ANY platform.
I had the relatively unique experience of coming to Git, mobile-first, via this very application on my iPhone 8 Plus, almost exactly 4 years ago. Thanks to GitHub’s Education program, I’ve had access to unlimited repository creation since that first day, and it’s honestly quite a testament to the power of Working Copy just how much of a mess I made in those initial few months.
Now on my iPad Pro, I keep so many repos (89 as of this writing) that I have an automation that maintains a browsable index of the lot (which is, itself, a testament to Working Copy’s incredibly comprehensive and solid Siri Shortcuts support.)
Latest Color Names

This is an automatically-generated palette of the latest entries on colornames.org created by my Siri Shortcut. :)
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Underexposure has always been my shit. Believe it or not, this was far from the most interesting/dynamic thing to look at pulled over on the side of W last night, but it's all I could capture.

Underexposure has always been my shit. Believe it or not, this was far from the most interesting/dynamic thing to look at pulled over on the side of W last night, but it's all I could capture.
piedmont
Noun
- the plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama
- Part of
- South
- Is a
- geographical area
- geographic area
- geographical region
- geographic region
- Part of
- a gentle slope leading from the base of a mountain to a region of flat land
- Less specific
- slope
- incline
- side
- Less specific
- the region of northwestern Italy; includes the Po valley
- Synonyms
- Piedmont
- Piemonte
- Parts
- Turin
- Torino
- Part of
- Italy
- Italian Republic
- Italia
- Is a
- Italian region
- Synonyms
piedmont - LookUp
noun
-
Geography a gentle slope leading from the foot of mountains to a region of flat land
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a region of north-western Italy, in the foothills of the Alps; capital, Turin. Dominated by Savoy from 1400, it became a part of the kingdom of Sardinia in 1720. It was the centre of the movement for a united Italy in the 19th century
-
a hilly region of the eastern US, between the Appalachians and the coastal plain
Origin
from Italian piemonte mountain foot
aberration
Noun
- a state or condition markedly different from the norm
- Synonyms
- aberrance
- aberrancy
- deviance
- Less specific
- abnormality
- abnormalcy
- More specific
- chromosomal aberration
- chromosomal anomaly
- chrosomal abnormality
- chromosonal disorder
- deflection
- warp
- Related
- aberrant
- deviant
- deviate
- aberrate
- aberrate
- aberrant
- deviant
- deviate
- aberrant
- deviant
- deviate
- aberrate
- aberrate
- aberrant
- deviant
- deviate
- Synonyms
- a disorder in one’s mental state
- Less specific
- mental disorder
- mental disturbance
- disturbance
- psychological disorder
- folie
- Related
- aberrate
- Less specific
- an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
- Synonyms
- distortion
- optical aberration
- Less specific
- optical phenomenon
- More specific
- chromatic aberration
- spherical aberration
- Related
- aberrate
- Synonyms
aberration - LookUp
noun
- a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically an unwelcome one
they described the outbreak of violence in the area as an aberration | I see these activities as some kind of mental aberration | the decade was seen as a period of aberration in the country’s progress towards a democratic society
Biology a characteristic that deviates from the normal type
colour aberrations
Origin
late 16th century : from Latin aberratio(n- ), from aberrare to stray (see aberrant )
Thesaurus
Noun
- economists said the figure was an aberration
Similar Words: anomaly deviation divergence abnormality irregularity variation digression edge case freak rogue rarity quirk oddity curiosity mistake
- it is possible that, in a moment of aberration, the parent may strike the child
Similar Words: abnormality irregularity eccentricity deviation transgression straying lapse aberrancy
- the experience might have been no more than a temporary aberration of an exhausted mind
Similar Words: disorder defect disease irregularity instability derangement vagary

Almost positive this is one of the few instances where I managed to accidentally manifest an indistinguishable likeness from the moment of intent right at capture.
peradventure
Noun
- doubt or uncertainty as to whether something is the case; “this proves beyond peradventure that he is innocent”
- Less specific
- doubt
- uncertainty
- incertitude
- dubiety
- doubtfulness
- dubiousness
- Less specific
Adverb
- by chance; “perhaps she will call tomorrow”; “we may possibly run into them at the concert”; “it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time”
- Synonyms
- possibly
- perchance
- perhaps
- maybe
- mayhap
- Synonyms
Keka for iOS/iPadOS App Store Review
The best compression/extraction utility on the platform.
By far the most delightful compression/extraction utility for macOS (imo) is somewhat diminished in delightfulness in its mobile form, though not in its pure functionality. From the perspective of a year one iOS user with plenty of experience exploring what alternatives have been offered since the introduction of the File Provider API in iOS11, Keka for iOS/iPadOS' shear speed is distinct enough from its few platform competitors to warrant the title of Best such utility on the platform.
Also unique/notable:
- Open Source
- Unique support for compression of entire directories outside the app’s respective system folder(s)
Extracting individual YouTube video URLs from Playlists with yt-dlp
Since I’m a longtime Raindrop.io user, I handle plaintext, line-broken lists of raw URLs a lot, though I’m used to having to get them to that state myself by some fiddling or another.
I was very delighted, then, to find that my very first attempt at the very first solution I found in a search engine on a journey to figure out what the fuck Rally Phonk is resulted in a plain text list!
u/werid’s reply to a original poster in the youtubedl subreddit asking “Is it possible to extract individual videos links from YouTube playlist using yt-dlp or youtube-dl” is to credit for my success:
yt-dlp --flat-playlist -i --print-to-file url file.txt "playlist-url"

if you didn't immediately recognize which slice of this pie spent the whole meeting loudly farting their asses straight to hell, YOU are the problem.

if you didn't immediately recognize which slice of this pie spent the whole meeting loudly farting their asses straight to hell, YOU are the problem.
thought I’d try taking the reflector out of this free Habor Freight headlamp and…

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Craft Audio Sampler
Meta
Description
A comprehensive index of the audio notifications/effects found in the cross-platform “productivity app” Craft.
Paste for macOS App Store Review
Though I’ve lamented recent changes to Paste’s iOS/iPadOS app, the macOS version remains just about perfect to use. It also remains the only application permanently bound to a global keyboard shortcut (`⌥``) on my aging (Monterey-limited,) Intel MacBook Pro, and its interface continues to delight as much as it did on first call, who knows how many years ago.
