May 2012
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April 2012
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Advice From My Friends
1: Do not overdrink.
2: Do not have an accident with poop.
3: Beware lycanthropy.
4: Do not beware lycanthropy.
5: Be vigilant in the fight against tooth decay.
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“To avoide the deiouse repetition of these woordes: is equalle to: I will sette...”
– Robert Recorde, The Whetstone of Witte, 1557
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DIY Deco: Moleskine Notebooks →
(Link in title) My blog post detailing past and current projects: customizing Moleskine notebooks. I’m particular about the materials I use, and other people can benefit from my trial-and-error learning process.
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“Hier ist ein Nagel. Tun Sie Ihren Finger auf den Nagel, und ich werde ihm einen...”
– German Through Pictures, 1953
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Unwanted Super-Powers
I used to call them super-powers, but I just have a couple latent psychic abilities. This means I can’t turn them on or control them, they just manifest independent of my conscious thought.
One is that I can radiate emotions. Not enough to knock someone down but enough to announce my presence to a group of people who can’t see me. I think it’s a byproduct of feeling things...
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It, As It Is Done Wrongly
Bubbly Teenage Girl in Twins Jersey: Can't spell "win" without "Twin!"
Bubbly Friend Also in Twins Jersey: I think you got that backward.
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The Greatest Joy
Me: What is best in life?
Rebecca: To defeat your enemies... to... lay their walls asunder... and... to suckle at the teats of the mourning-wives.
Me: I will accept that.
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kae asked: Do you still have the drawings made by the Cambodian children? If so, would you care to share any?
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planb-becomeapirate asked: Interesting. I don't know if it's preemptive legal self defense.. but I always think of the stereotype that medical professionals have horrible handwriting. Not because they don't care, but because they're so busy that they just have time to scrawl. Maybe it applies to their editing needs as well. They just don't have the time to make sense? Or I might have missed...
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Protecting Our Copy and Our Corpus
Editing has taken me to some really interesting, but increasingly disturbing, places.
I started out just fixing copy on advertisements. I was excited when a commercial came up on TV and I could say, “I fixed that!” or a major retailer advertised in the Sunday circulars and that too was within the jurisdiction of my maintenance. That was cool. It was cool to know trade secrets that I...
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“Let the childe, by and by, both construe and parse it ouer againe.”
– R. Ascham, scholemaster (1570)
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50 things to do before you are 12 →
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FB's Not Kidding
A long time ago, I attempted to delete my Facebook account. I followed their instructions: don’t login for two weeks. Three days after that time limit I attempted to login, to see if it actually deleted my account. It didn’t! Everything was still in place and waiting for me to come back to it.
Recently I undertook this again and noticed Facebook has two options: one that lets you...
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Writer's Block
I’ve had writer’s block the last few days. There are all sorts of creative exercises people can recommend to get over it, and some people apply some tough love and tell you to quit dinking around with fancy-dancy little creative exercises and just sit down and write. Write anything, write crap, “write twaddle,” but write.
A very popular contemporary author said as much. He...
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Moleskine Messages Postal Notebook →
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Confusion Over Motive
There’s conflict on the public buses. Some drivers don’t pay attention to how passengers conduct themselves, and Minnesotans don’t like to speak up for themselves. That means a couple ballsy teenagers or some out-of-towners can trammel the pleasant (or pleasantly uneventful) riding experience.
This can take the form of candy wrappers tossed to the ground, soda bottles rattling...
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“We gotta do it, now is the time Joe.”
– Black Francis
Library of Congress Home →
The title is the link: you owe it to yourself to poke around our Library of Congress. There’s some amazing material in there.
