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Overheard in the Break Room I

July 7th, 2011 · No Comments

Dunno why they didn’t use a six-person jury. A six-person jury definitely would have found her guilty.

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Tags: language

Fred FM playlist: 19 December 2010 “@devakali”

December 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Approximate playing time: 47 minutes.

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Tags: CNFtweet · Fred FM · ideas · language · music · writing

She’s such a biotech.

December 16th, 2010 · No Comments

The nice thing about typing the word “biotch” in a public forum is that, when someone calls you on it, you can always say you meant to type “biotech.”

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NaNoWriMo word cloud

December 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments

Can you get an idea about what is happening in this work-in-progress by reading its word cloud?

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Tags: fiction · history · ideas · language · writing

Gratitude

October 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment

I remember reading this letter when I first received it in my inbox three years ago. Everything in the room went silent then, as if in the thrall of some cinematic effect, and my focus was completely on the text.

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Tags: family · language · music · writing

Today’s Fun Spam (4 October 2010)

October 4th, 2010 · No Comments

Today’s fun spam comment comes from a user by the name of Viagra.

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Mangment (Everywhere a sign #32)

October 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment

Later, I Googled the word “mangment,” and discovered over 70,000 entries.

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Tags: language · signs

Banned Books

September 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Specifically, these are the books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course’s “Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century” that have been criticized for language, sexual references, violence, or for just being, well, too imaginative.

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Tags: books · language

An Unintentional Joke?

August 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments

I just entered ANAGRAM into Google, and the search engine asked me, “Did you mean NAG A RAM?”

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Buddhist Tolerance Can’t Buy You Peace
in New York City

June 6th, 2010 · No Comments

More Spalding Gray, this time from Swimming to Cambodia.

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Tags: film · language