User:Paul2520/tidbits

This page is an aggregate of things I don't want to forget, but am not sure where else to save.

Food

• the holy trinity of Cajun cooking
• Maillard reaction
• Syrniki (сырники) is the breakfast served in the opening of Anya's Ghost

Language

• As-salamu alaykum
• Epizeuxis
• eunoia is the shortest English word with all five vowels (excluding y)
• sticky wicket is a funny phrase

Miscellaneous

• Chekhov's gun: "Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there."
• Mugen Puchipuchi: Japanese keychain that mimics popping of bubblewrap (and is reusable!)
• Thought-terminating cliché

Numbers

• Belphegor's prime

People

• John Akii-Bua, whose name has come to colloquially mean "runs" in Uganda.
• Robert Owen, one of the founders of coops

Animals

• Tardigrades

Thought experiments

• The theoretical Ship of Theseus

Wordplay

• eunoia is the shortest English word with all five vowels (excluding y). See also https://eunoia.world/.
• Words, words, words... ambigrams and pangrams are pretty cool.