Hi. In case anyone is reading this and wonders what it is, I was having a conversation of Facebook about grammar -- specifically about how many spaces go after a period (two) and whether you need to use the Oxford comma (you don't). I feel like I wrote some good things on both subjects, and since I'm doomed to have these arguments over and over I ( Read more... )

I just started reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance this morning. On the 15th page, I found this passage.

"Perhaps because of these changes [faster-paced radio, movies and TV] the stream of national consciousness moves faster now, and is broaded, but it seems to run less deep. The old channels cannot contain it and in its search for ( Read more... )

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Obama playing P-I-G with the undefeated Connecticut women's basketball team. He kicks their butts.

Ever seen that episode of How I Met Your Mother where Barney runs the New York Marathon and then gets stuck on the subway because his legs don't work anymore? That is me right now. I went on a five mile run today. It was my first major exercise in about six months ( Read more... )

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15 minutes from now you will be having the best day ever! Just click play.

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I almost didn't write a year in review this year because nobody reads LJ anymore but it's kind of a theaputic experience and, besides, I've been doing in for so long. You can click here to read my years in review for 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. But if you read all of them you're officially stalking me so it's better just not to ( Read more... )

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"For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and this year’s words await another voice, and to make an end is to make a beginning." -T.S. Eliot

"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account." -Oscar Wilde ( Read more... )