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What ever happened to proper English? Yeah, I know… I’ve done this before. The acronyms bouncing around the internet and smart phones are making me wonder why we bother speaking English anymore. It started a long time ago when we named companies by their acronym: GE (General Electric), GM (General Motors), …Read More!… OU812          I can live forever! There is a website out there called My Digital Afterlife which provides a service that can send emails to loved ones after you have died. With Halloween coming on, this seems like an apropos moment to bring this to everyone’s attention. The idea behind the …Read More!… Ghost in the Machine So… I’m contemplating my finger. That is, the index finger on my left hand which I decided to gouge a chunk out of yesterday. Honestly, I’m not even sure how I did it and the first real indicator was blood getting everywhere it shouldn’t be. Ow, ow, rats, ow! Expecting? Having a small contracting company means a lot of things. We do almost anything. In summer, I work as hard as possible because winter can be slow at best. That means I’ll take jobs I normally wouldn’t to keep the cash flow coming through. And I’ve had a few odd ones. Yesterday I took a …Read More!… Rattled Somewhere in this profoundly troubled mind is the lost child I seek to resurrect from the shadowy depths of an insane overly-grown-up world. …Read More!… Writing Past Dark This is from the “when things go wrong” file. Tiger Woods is taking time off from work. The fact that there is a controversy because of his affair(s) with a woman is apparently weighing on his mind. But this isn’t a Tiger bashing. This is a news channel bashing. Since the accident happened, Tiger has …Read More!… Tiger by the Tail What has happened to the English language? In actuality, it’s still in existence in the back rooms of libraries and in select places in your local bookstore. Properly spoken English has become an anomaly and humorous rather than the norm. English is changing and not for the better. In fact, what is left is no …Read More!… U-R-1-2 It seems everyone has a Blog these days (that’s short for web-log for the uninitiated). While I’ve been blogging for over two years, my old blog has been a proverbial needle hidden in the haystack. Considering some of the vibrant language used in that forum, I think it was best kept… um… secreted. …Read More!… To Blog or not to Blog |
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