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Recent Posts
Words MatterPost
September 7, 2011
"Dear airlines: 'Duration' is not how much time is left in the flight. Get a dictionary and look up 'remainder.'"
Teach Them Chess
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September 7, 2011
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September 7, 2011
It’s about life.
They learn consequences. They learn to like winning. They learn that losing isn’t death.
What We Make Of It
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September 5, 2011
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September 5, 2011
Sounds simple: “The world is what we make of it.”
The Help, A Dissenting Review
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September 5, 2011
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September 5, 2011
There is much truth in the movie. The dialog, the attitudes, the laws, the houses and decors of the two sides of this story are all spot-on. I saw and heard nothing that jarred me out of that era.
StrangenessPost
September 4, 2011
"The older I get, the more tolerant I become of strangeness, except when it objects to mine."
RBOS
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September 3, 2011
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September 3, 2011
You probably don’t know the Red Baron Operating System, “R-Boss” (RBOS). It was named for a strip bar in Houston Texas and it carried billions, probably trillions, of dollars of credit card authorizations for American Express – including long after they lost the source code for it.
Fountain Pens and Inks
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September 2, 2011
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September 2, 2011
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