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Dumb user experience
I seem to have become curmudgeonly as I age... (become curmudgeonly ( Read more... ) -
Grammar *can* change!
If people like my Grade 4 grammar teacher hadn't loused up peoples' perceptions of singular vs. plural vs. masculine vs. feminine vs. neither/both, they wouldn't have to write an article like this:
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Well, *that* was an interesting weekend...
I'd pretty much recovered from my whatever-it-was, and was looking forward to a quiet evening at home. Heidi, her mother, my mother, and Heidi's sister Ellen were going to have a "Girls' Night Out" and have dinner together. My mother is just about to move to a retirement residence, and I think this was a sort of celebration of not having to cook ( Read more... ) -
Where can I send him?
A friend of mine is in a difficult situation at home (not physically dangerous, I think) and he's looking to get out. Any thoughts on places he could go for a few weeks or a month that are essentially free? -
I loves grammer!
For my grammar geek friends
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An intellecshul joke
Stolen from slate.com who lifted it from reddit.com:
“A biologist, a chemist, and a statistician are out hunting. The biologist shoots at a deer and misses 5ft to the left, the chemist takes a shot and misses 5ft to the right, and the statistician yells, ‘We got ‘im!’ ”
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On invisible disability and "passing".
Originally posted by full_metal_ox at On invisible disability and "passing".
Welcome todungeonwriter's neurotype issues:
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Phone upgrade fail
I attempted to replace my aged, broken Motorola i530 with a shiny new iPhone 4. Did the paperwork, was told it should be almost instant to switch the phone, but might be as much as a half-hour because I was changing networks.
It's now seven and a half hours later, and they're now saying it might be as much as 72 hours.
Sigh. And Telus had been ( Read more... )
