Word: snail
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...become the Daily Variety of cyberspace, had been held up at the office, she told her friend, finalizing the debut issue of [Inside], her company's new magazine. That's right, magazine--as in a sheaf of stapled-together pages covered in ink and distributed by snail mail. How ironic. How 20th century. Here she was, a brash entrepreneur in the brave new world of Web-based publishing, stuck with the old-fashioned job of selling ad space and shipping proofread pages to the printer...
...Condor Pasa' by Simon and Garfunkel because I would rather be a sparrow than a snail if I could...
...first glance, it's hard to see why sites like Aimee's have so much appeal. The pictures from her four cameras, updated at the snail's pace of one frame every 30 sec., are as unarresting as your neighbor's vacation slides. She gets her highest ratings when playing her guitar, sitting in front of her computer or rolling around on the floor with her dogs. One evening last week she spent four consecutive hours lying on her sofa. Survivor this...
...wired campus, Georgi is battling to make the 70-year-old notion of "House community" digitally savvy. Telephone calls and snail mail no longer suffice to marshal Net generation undergraduates into the community. "I suppose that all of these House things used to be done with posters and sign-up lists in the dining hall, but I can't imagine running the House without e-mail and the House webpage," Georgi muses. "And I'm trying to train the administration that it is useful to send the House [electronic] files instead of piles of papers...
...Eliot House finished fifth in the Green Cup. What's the Green Cup, you ask? I answer: It's because of people like you that there's no forest in the rainforest and those darling little snail darters are no longer darting. You should be ashamed of yourself...