Done! Done! Done!
Just finished my editing final! The semester is over! I can now read for pleasure without guilt!
In fact, I think that’s what I’ll go do right now.
Friday, April 30, 2004
Grammar Geeks Unite!
This section from Making Light’s comment thread particularly amused me.
It’s about puncuation, and even mentions the Chicago Manual of Style.
Wail! Gnash Teeth!
Alas! My mornings are undone!
Today is Bob Edward’s last day at Morning Edition.
For as long as I have had a clock radio (excluding a few years when I was in college or working nights) I’ve woken up to Bob Edwards. For me, he is indellibly associated with mornings.
I don’t know how I’ll be able to [...]
Thursday, April 29, 2004
Exquisite Corpse of Page 23
I’d wanted to play since I ran into it at languagehat but attempting to study and going through books are mutually exclusive activities for me.
Anyway, here is the Exquisite Corpse of page 23.
The rules for 23/5 Exquisite Corpse are:
Take the nearest six to ten books from your shelf.
Open them to page 23, and find the [...]
Plant Sale!
Got this in my mail yesterday:
3) PLANT SALE UNDER WAY AT GREENHOUSE
As gardening season kicks into high gear, WVU’s Plant and Soil Sciences Greenhouse is preparing for its annual spring plant sale. The sale will start with special hours from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 1. Regular sale hours will be [...]
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Mandela
It’s pledge time for WV Public Radio, but I’m such the geek that I don’t bother to change the station (I will, however, change the station when Prarie Home Companion comes on. Yetch.)
I’m glad I didn’t change the station, because All Things Considered has been doing a series on Nelson Mandela and South Africa [...]
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
The Vlad Taltos Novels
The Vlad Taltos Novels by Steven Brust
Once I finished reading Sethra Lavode, I just had to go back and read the Vlad Taltos novels. All of them. I averaged about one a night, which tells you 1) that the books are a relatively fast read and 2) that I was not studying as I should [...]
Sethra Lavode
Sethra Lavode: Book Three of the Viscount of Adrilankha by Steven Brust
In this book we learn how Zerika finally solidifies her claim to the throne, we learn whether Khaavren and Piro reconcile, and we learn more about Morrolan’s destructive tendencies. If you’ve read the Vlad Taltos books, you already know that Zerika is going to [...]
The Nature of Evil
Several weeks ago there was a discussion at Making Light on the nature of evil, and what constitutes evil. Does taking an evil action make you evil? How many evil acts do you have to commit before you are irredeemable?
Thinking about it has brought to mind several other questions: Can you be evil without committing [...]
Monday, April 26, 2004
Health Policy
Done! Final is over. Wasn’t too bad really. Six short answer, one short essay, one long essay. My only fear is that I didn’t answer the long essay in the way he wanted–it sort of turned into a rant against society’s unwillingness to care for the poor and elderly. But he lilkes that, so I [...]
The Obesity Myth
Fantstic article from the Guardian on America’s obsession with weight.
Hey, it’s public health. That means it’s studying, right?
(via Neil Gaiman)
Saturday, April 24, 2004
Catholics and Abortion
(This was written as we were driving to Akron. I am, of course, not spending time on the web right now. Because I’m studying. Really.)
I said several months ago, that the idea of Nativism was strange to me, and that anti-Catholicism was a foreign concept that seemed part of another time. I found it hard [...]
Friday, April 23, 2004
Friday’s Slacking
Wednesday, March 17 9:03 a.m. Mix ingenuity and determination with no small measure of courage and you have the daring overnight heist of a child’s scooter from the front of an Alliance Road home.
Amount it cost for a Japanese man to take a cab from Argentina to New York City:
$58,000
Pudding Pops
I’d forgotten to mention my exciting news, which is that Giant Eagle now has Pudding Pops!
Okay, you can stop laughing now, because I really do love Pudding Pops. They seem to have disappeared off the face of the earth from about the time I was in high school until this year. I’d occasionally peruse the [...]
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Sporadic
Given that we are approaching finals, and I have to take ‘em, posting will be sporadic.
Right now I’m tired, can’t study, and can’t concentrate, so that doesn’t bode well for intelligible posts.
If you’re looking for something to read in the interm, I have several suggestions:
This post on politics and the Catholic church, from Jeanne at [...]
Auletta on Media Bias
I made it to last night’s final Festival of Ideas speaker, Ken Auletta, who talked about media bias.
Unfortunately, I was incredibly tired (still am actually) so I didn’t take notes or write anything when I got home. That leaves you an article in the DP (you’ll notice that the DP article talks about him, but [...]
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Break from the Serious
:: how jedi are you? ::
Ha! I get Princess Leia!
Monday, April 19, 2004
File Under WTF?
We had to take the car to the dealdership, because the check engine light came on. Michael just called to tell me what was wrong.
The gas cap was loose.
No Excuse Voting
No excuse voting for the WV primary begins Wednesday the 21st. For statewide information, see the Secretary of State webpage. (Warning: the website was redesigned after Manchin took office, and has some serious issues. Be forwarned that if you’re using anything other than IE, you may run into difficulty. [And this may be a reason [...]
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