August 2011
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Well, I'm mentioning it now. That's three hours of my life wasted, digging a hole and filling it back up again. In general I hate working with software for which I don't have the source code. Since that's just about everything, I'm doomed to frustration.
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Mr. Bean Wrecks His Car
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Discussion on the previous post led to mention of the phenomenon in which those of us who grew up reading a lot pick up words that aren't used by the people around us, so that we invent our own pronunciations, which are not always correct. I experienced a slight variation of this: in at least…
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I don't know when I've seen a more perfect harmony of title and art on an album cover. I wonder if I should make it my Facebook profile picture. If this link works, you can hear samples.
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Janet mentioned this several days ago, but I didn't have time to read it then, and then forgot about it until this morning. I'm very sympathetic, but, as Hart seems to suspect, that way madness lies. Or at least a grave social difficulty: you'll become a person everyone hates if you insist on correcting these…
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Sunday Night Journal — July 31, 2011 I picked up this little book at a used-book sale a few weeks ago and immediately began reading it, partly because it’s so short. I’ve had a copy of The Reed of God sitting around the house unread for years, and have encountered intriguing samples of Houselander’s work…
Light On Dark Water 