A fun little exercise in time-killing in which I got to define ten words beginning with the same letter in my trademark sardonic style. I got the letter L from strangecreature, who had the letter F and still somehow managed to leave flibbertygibbet out of her list. :) If anybody actually reads this and wants to play, drop me a line and I'll give you a letter.



Linux - A free, open source, superior alternative to Microsoft Windows. Will one day take over the world.

Lindsey McDonald - A fictional Whedonverse character and a long-time obsession of mine. There was just now way he was getting left off this list once I saw I got L.

Life - The only thing you'll never get out of alive.

Lighter - A small, convenient device for making fire which always seems to go missing from my pocket when I go over to my friend's house on Friday night, thus forcing me to forgo cigarettes until I see her, as I'm cheap and refuse to buy a new one.

Light-year - One of the most annoyingly misused words ever, second only to nauseous (according to Strunk and White). e.g: "No need to study today, the Astronomy final is light-years from now." Light-years measure distance, not time, people. Sheesh.

Lotto 649 - A random draw of six numbers from 1 to 49, with the odds of winning being such that it is reasonable to expect to win after playing twice per week for roughly 1900 lifetimes. (I did the math.)

Lysergic Acid Diethylamide - A substance with many interesting properties and effects when ingested, which my old chem profs still won't let me make in the school's lab after years of cajoling.

Love - 1. Temporary insanity brought on by chemical reactions in the brain due to pheromones.
2. A social narrative not unlike "citizenship" which we organize our experience around.
3. Definitely NOT a force of nature; I've checked with the physics department.

ln (pronounced lawn) - A logarithmic function of base e, an irrational and transcendental number which seems to pop up everywhere without explanation annoying me to no end.

laboratory - Place where you go and do all the things you were told were stupid and/or dangerous when you were a kid, all in the name of science.