antsy, avuncular, betimes, gathered up

Preface

Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of "The Ambassadors," which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader's benefit, into as few words as possible—planted or "sunk," stiffly and saliently, in the centre of the current, almost perhaps to the obstruction of traffic. 

And to the younger generation, he was the avuncular and razor-witted chairman of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, who more than held his own with comedians including Tim Brooke-Taylor, the late Willie Rushton and Barry Cryer.



Germany beefs up security as NATO protesters get antsy

German police say they plan a "zero tolerance strategy" for violent
protesters at the upcoming NATO summit following riots at the G-20 meeting
in London. First clashes have already taken place.

Battle in the cloud: Microsoft vs. Google

TAGS: Cloud computing

Microsoft, with Live Mesh, may be following Google's lead in cloud computing, but when it comes to implementation, the two could not be more different, both technically and philosophically. But it's Google's model that represents the radical departure.
"In it, the cloud is the computer, from alpha to omega. Because there are no disks or volumes for the user to maintain, there is no need for the artificial concept of "files" or a file system to store them in. Persistent storage is reduced to an abstract concept: All that exist are applications and their associated documents," Neil McAllister explains in this week's installment of Fatal Exception.
No wonder Google makes Microsoft antsy, McAllister adds.

Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 24, 2008 08:13 AM

betimes

bɪˈtʌɪmz/

adverb

1. 1.

   archaic

   before the usual or expected time; early.

   "next morning I was up betimes"
2. 2.

   NORTH AMERICAN

   sometimes; on occasion.

antsy
adjective US SLANG
very nervous, anxious or unpleasantly excited:
It was a long drive and the children started to get antsy.
I always get antsy about meeting my husband's boss.


avuncular
(ə-vŭng'kyə-lər) adj.

1. Of or having to do with an uncle.
2. Regarded as characteristic of an uncle, especially in benevolence or tolerance.

[From Latin avunculus, maternal uncle.]