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A few new items around here, but dated back to September. That is when I started an experiment in moving this blog to another service. I wanted simplicity, and Posterous certainly gave me that, but it wasn’t what I needed. Yes, I still crave simplicity, but Posterous works one way: post to Posterous, and it […]
Got me some new kicks today: My first time shopping for shoes online, after years of watching over Aprille’s shoulder. I went to a local store (a big box, not a local shopkeeper) and fitted myself for some Adidas. Size in hand, I went online to Zappo’s, and bought exactly the style I wanted (which they […]
In this entry, Garrick Van Buren posts a simple, elegant way of remembering when to use i.e., and when to use e.g. Unfortunately, his method requires that you know Latin. Herewith, my method: i.e. is short for, “in other words,” which is easy to remember because they both start with “i.” On the other hand, e.g. […]
This weekend we went to Borders, here in town, and bought two South Beach Diet books (the Book, and a cookbook). In reading the Book of them, it became clear to us that we eat too much of some bad stuff, mostly refined sugar and processed carbs. Or, as I like to think of them, […]
Today was to be my first day at work. But I resigned from that job this past Friday. Because I have another new job now. The big news first, I guess. I have secured an honest-to-goodness, full-time job at the University of Kansas. First, I’d like to thank my mother, who provides the opening icebreaker for […]
This post is sort of a follow-up to my hair shearing entry. My hair is now short. Really short. But I didn’t do it myself. I went back to SuperCuts and told them to cut it short. Really short. And they did. At home, I tested the length using my own trimmer, to see how I […]
