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.