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Archive for November, 2008
Photo for the Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Clouds, Peninsula, Photo, Photograph, Picture, Sky, Water on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Apatheic
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged English, English Language, Language, Language Decay, Language Evolution, Link, News, News Story, Story, the Simpsons on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Get the Story
Is this language erosion or language evolution? Or neither?
Is it another chink in the armor of the English language, which seems to be perched upon the edge of a cliff waiting for that final push to plunge it headlong into decay, death, and finally oblivion?
Is it the natural process of language evolution, which [...]
I Interrupt
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cubicles, Work on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…this very productive workday to make an announcement:
Cubicles suck all that is good and creative and living out of this world.
Thank you.
Whistle While You Work
Posted in Links, News Story, tagged Happiness, Motherhood, Study, Work on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is quite an interesting study. It looks at people and their satisfaction in their professions. Interestingly lawyers and doctors are not to be found, at either extreme.
‘”The most satisfying jobs are mostly professions, especially those involving caring for, teaching, and protecting others and creative pursuits,” said Tom W. Smith, director of the General Social [...]
Slaughtering the Fatted Calf
Posted in Links, News Story, One Less Child and One Less Soul, What the World's Coming To, tagged Abortion, Election, Kenya, Obama on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…or not. I’ve read several articles since the election describing the pride and joy of Kenyans over the election of Obama. One even saying that some Kenyans were preparing to slaughter bulls if Obama was elected. Well, this Kenyan is far from happy, and he isn’t doing any celebrating. He has some sharp words for [...]
No One Knows
Posted in Literature, What the World's Coming To on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
as Melville Knows.
“Were I the wind, I’d blow no more on such a wicked,
miserable world. I’d crawl somewhere to a cave, and slink there.”
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
I love Moby Dick. I do not always like it, but I always love it. Melville’s twenty paragraph tangents are so worth reading, just for the fact that [...]
