I’m really fricken annoyed with customer-service conventions and the way they dictate how to answer questions. I asked a pretty direct question, “can I make a payment using a rebate card?” and a simple “no you cannot” would have been fine. Instead they write 5 paragraphs about what things I can do online, like [...]
Just for a second, I’m going to pretend that I’m a political/news blogger…
This story is CNN covering Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks about the Holocaust being a “myth” as part of his argument for the elimination of Israel and the reinstall of a Palestinian state. Now, these comments are absolutely deplorable, unacceptable, and evil. The [...]
Just for a second, I’m going to pretend that I’m a political/news blogger…
This story is CNN covering Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks about the Holocaust being a “myth” as part of his argument for the elimination of Israel and the reinstall of a Palestinian state. Now, these comments are absolutely deplorable, unacceptable, and evil. The [...]
For shits and giggles, I just googled “slack-ass” and one of my results was this pdf file of the talks given at the Madison Informal Linguistics Conference in 1998. Here’s a quote from the panel examining “-ass”:
This paper will examine the current trend in American English to use words associated with scatology as an [...]
To-do Today: (notice how NONE OF IT INVOLVES ANYTHING HARD LIKE FINALS!!!)
meet with WC student #1 at 4
Call Marci to pick me up
Call Gav to go shopping
Go shopping
shower
cook something for Geff’s
go to Geff’s
go to Daniel’s
get really drunk
go home happy (didn’t do. Daniel made me cry. the fucker.)
To-do SOON (like tomorrow):
email the language/culture kids
finish White Noise
return [...]
“The reader hears the first shoe drop and then strains in agony to hear the second. In dramatic terms, it’s like putting a gun on the mantelpiece in Act I and then having the heroine drown herself quietly offstage in the bath during the interval.” (91)
but it’s hard to know how seriously to take her, because her prose is so caffeinated that you can’t always separate the sense from the sensibility.
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?040628crbo_books1
Dream last night:
We took two vehicles to the beach we usually go to, and I arrived late. I couldn’t find my mom when I got there, but I found her stuff. There had been a big wave of people moving out of town last week so all these couches had been on sale, and when [...]
Quote from Malidoma Patrice Some’s autobiography Of Water and the Spirit:
My visual horizon had grown disproportionately. I was discovering that the eye is a machine that, even at its best, can still be improved, and that there is more to sight than just physical seeing. I began to understand that human sight creates its [...]
The livejournal version of my post about girls and linux is still getting some discussion. I replied to a user’s post, and I wanted to re-post this part of the conversation here too, just for fun. I like that blogger gets more attention from search engines than livejournal, plus I want to save this [...]