Morning Tidbits

Speaking of tidbits, they are titbits in Britain, but I suppose we're too puritanical to say tit over here. Oddly enough, however, according to dictionary.com tid is the original source word: "c.1640, probably from dialectal tid 'fond, solicitous, tender' + bit 'morsel.' "

I have this morning received birthday wishes on Facebook from as far away as Finland and Georgia. Isn't that cool?

I enjoyed a hearty laugh at my computer this morning. After writing my birthday post (last night), I checked my email (this morning). I clicked on a message from Best Buy, which informed me that there is a new generation of iPods out there. So, my birthday iPod is already obsolete — on my birthday no less. That is too funny. (Note: I just proofread the above; I had typed Beast Buy instead of Best Buy. What do you think of that?)

How nice to know that even the prestigious NY Times is prone to making careless errors. I also received an email from them yesterday. Please note the discrepancy between the title and subject of the following text. To wit: Wimbledon is over and the US Open is on.

Wimbledon 2010
Follow Straight Sets, the Tennis Blog of The New York Times, for updates, insights, links and analysis on the U.S. Open. Stay up-to-the minute with live tweeting from the tournament by Times reporters and editors. Don't miss Open House, featuring Gerry Marzorati and Michael Kimmelman who are covering all of the nooks and crannies of the Open. For complete coverage of the U.S. Open visit nytimes.com/tennis.

Speaking of tennis, I read this morning that Andy Roddick lost it a bit last night. Not only did he lose the match but lost his cool when he was called for a foot fault. Apparently he did foot fault, but when he asked the linesperson which foot, she picked the wrong one. Supposedly, it was the fact that she got the foot wrong and not the call itself that sent him into a tizzy. I do feel for Roddick, however; he is/was a fine player who would have won more tournaments and received more recognition had he not had the misfortune to play in the Roger Federer era.

Finally, last week KGMom posted a link on Facebook to a long article in the New Yorker mainly about the Koch brothers who have apparently funded the Tea Party so-called grass roots movements. I read the ten page essay, if not terribly closely, for interest sake. My take was and is that I find it terribly ironical that scores of Americans are being led by big business to protest big government. The NY Times reports, somewhat succinctly, on the original story.