My new words

Exoskeleton – a rigid external skeleton which is covering for the body in some invertebrate animals, especially arthropods, providing both support and protection. Brittle – Fragile, thin, crunchy, hard but easily breakable, sensitive. Chitter –  Make a twittering or chattering sound.   Their exoskeletons made a brittle chitter.   In Turkish: Exoskeleton – Dış iskelet Brittle…

My new words

Squirm – Wriggle, turn, curl or twist the body from side to side, especially as a result of nervousness or discomfort. Quarrel – Have an angry argument or disagreement, fight, conflict. Quarrelsome – Combative, grumpy, The insects squirmed quarrelsomely on the man’s head which was covered with wispy white hairs as downy as those on…

My new words

Eel – a fish looks like snake Sinuous ribbon – to describe the eel which looks like ribbon moving like sinuous wave. Dart – to move or run somewhere suddenly or rapidly. Pluck – take off, pick. (pluck up courage)An eel – a black, sinuous ribbon – darted out, plucking up a crab before vanishing…

Trip to San Francisco Zoo

I am on the way of the zoo. I missed bus and walked to Sunnyvale Caltrain station about half an hour from home and now waiting for train, and having coffee at Bean scene coffee on Historic Murphy Avenue which reminded me Murphy rules and made me smile. I need to leave in five minutes..…

Pirinç Çorbası / Rice Soup

Ingredients for two 1 tomato 1 teaspoon full of butter 2 tablespoon full of  rice salt a few mint leaves 1/2 lemon 2 glasses of water How to cook After removing any labels on it and washing grate tomato with skin on on a plate. Put butter on a nonstick pan with grated tomato and…

#morningthoughts Monotonous

Monotonous.. how can we change it? From dictionary monotonous: məˈnɒt(ə)nəs/ adjective: dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest.”the statistics that he quotes with monotonous regularity” synonyms: tedious, boring, dull, uninteresting, unexciting, wearisome, tiresome,repetitive, repetitious, unvarying, unchanging, unvaried, lacking variety,without variety, humdrum, ho-hum, routine, mechanical, mind-numbing,soul-destroying, prosaic, run-of-the-mill, uneventful, unrelieved, dreary,plodding, colorless, featureless, dry as…

#eveningthoughts March 07, 2015

Computers and me My first meeting with computers was at Middle East University in 1974 when my high school in Ankara managed a trip for us to the university. The main idea behind that trip was showing us the kinds of professions. In short from that trip two things still alive in my head. The…