semmyfun

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Because words like semantic are fun but semmy is more fun than semantic

UPDATE: also it's homophonous with semi-fun, which is semi-fun

Posted by el at 11:32 AM

I created dot com roulette and many other projects, some of which I'll get around to blogging about.

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