Because so much cool stuff is just waiting to distract me from writing!
So I won’t be spending the month of April toasting 50 years of the overopinionated and underinformed little book that put so many people in this unhappy state of grammatical angst. I’ve spent too much of my scholarly life studying English grammar in a serious way. English syntax is a deep and interesting subject. It […]
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“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.” — Neil Gaiman That’s it. What
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“The sight of an innocent person suffering without possibility of reward or compensation motivated people to devalue the attractiveness of the victim in order to bring about a more appropriate fit between her fate and her character.” via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan. I’m quite certain I meant to say something about that.
I keep jerking awake. Flailing, usually. Once I fell off the bed. It’s a twin, very narrow, and there was a cat…anyway. Jerk awake. Flailing. Drowning. Can’t breathe. We all know life is fragile. Know it in our heads, anyway. But when you wake six times in one night, drowning in the immune response of
Pretty sure I’ve used that title before, so… Still sick. Have a tour of my Firefox tabs instead of stuff that might require me to think. With these crosshairs of the face, you can make the head circle look like it’s facing any direction. This grid is also your roadmap to being able to draw
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This is an interesting article about a Daily Show I should have (and will) watch. He soon grows frustrated trying to explain his ideas in words. He admits he can no longer write straight text; he writes in hypertext, highlighting key words and making links to Web pages about them. That way he doesn’t get
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I’m queer–no, wait. No, I’m not. I’m just dealing with crap that really needs dealing with, but isn’t that interesting to anyone but me. So here. Watch something freakin’ FASCINATING.