This is something I have been meaning to write for a while. I hesitated because at least two people who might read this missive have had boy trouble because their fellows couldn’t say the three little words. This I don’t understand. I understand getting grumpy when your partner won’t say “I love you;" I wouldn’t have put up with it nearly as ( Read more... )

(I wrote this for a friend, but thought it was worth a post. Every time I use coriander I think of Rave and Alej ( Read more... )

A dear friend recently had a hard drive fail, and her backups were several days old. I’m pretty amazed that she had backups at all. Most back schemes require user intervention and/or are fragile. (By fragile I mean that the slightest change, Windows decides to call your external drive g: instead of h: for instance, means they fail.) At me ( Read more... )

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=379

Starts about 27:30

Joss singing live.

From a review.

...the Mac Pro’s beautifully designed interiors make connecting to these ports in a way that would not hamper airflow next to impossible.

Would you believe there is only one Google hit for "capons go marching along"*? That is so sad.

I love to imagine soldier chickens marching down a dusty road?

What do your soldier chickens look like?

Contrary to what some people believe, irregardless is a perfectly useful word. Those who choose not to look beyond meaning insist that irregardless and regardless are the same. Those of us who appreciate beauty and flow in our language disagree. The word irregardless allows the orator to ease into a sentence. It can make the spoken word flow ( Read more... )

From the Chicago Manual Of Style web site.

But funny, nonetheless.

God help us all (it gets interesting about 3:25)

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I just said, while performing phone support, "It depends on what version of the Palm you are having."

I don't quite know what to make of that.

Dan