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From the monthly archives:
The “plural apostrophe” (e.g. no dog’s allowed, sofa’s for sale, UGH) is running rampant these days, and it’s not just my imagination. It’s so wrong that I can’t even begin to fathom how anyone could make such a mistake. I hate it when people dismiss it with, “Oh, not everyone’s a grammar freak.”
Grammar? You think it’s an issue of grammar? I hate to break it to you, but if you can’t spell “dogs,” you’re illiterate.
via strange brew
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I don’t want my children to grow up thinking that Greedo shot first.
via re-run
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I use bookmarklets for all my posting and hardly ever enter the MT interface to do anything other than edit old posts. So if you are like me you will need to modify bm_entry.tmpl instead of edit_entry.tmpl, but otherwise this is what you need to do if you were using Scott Andrew’s PowerLinks in your MoveableType blog and they all got lost when you upgraded: Custom Tag Buttons in Edit Entry screen
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So … I’ve been loathe to mention this here, but I guess I should.
My dad had a heart attack last weekend.
He’s fine now - thank God - but, man, what a flucking scare, y’know?
Apparently his days of eating potato chips are gone, but he’s had angioplasty (70% blockage in one artery and 90% in another) and some titanium stents installed so technically now he’s a bionic dad.
I gotta tell ya: It really, really freaked me out. For a day or so I was scared out of my mind. I am so inconceivably happy that he is okay.
Feel free to drop him a line. I mailed him “Salt” to read while he’s recuperating, but I know he digs getting email.
(Note: If you click the link to send him an email, the message will have “NOSPAM” in the middle of his address. You’ll have to take that out before you hit send. That’s just there so that web-spidering robots won’t find his email address and add him to spam lists.)
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I own an NEC SuperScript 870 laser printer. When I bought it - sometime towards the end of 2000 - I was incredibly thrilled. (I had actually bought one sometime in ‘99, I think. Then I moved to California and couldn’t bring the world’s most-economical, feature-rich, best-performing printer with me. So I bought another one because I was so happy with it.) This printer does everything. And it does everything extremely well. Watermarks, half-tones, headers and footers, multi-column pages, foldable brochures … it had the most incredible software interface! If you were working in Word and clicked Print and then looked at the Preferences (or Options) it was boggling how many awesome things you could do with this printer.
But that was before Windows 2000.
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There’s something just not right about this image. I can’t put my finger on it … What do you think?
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Contextless Content: A portion of a conversation, usually from an instant messenger platform.
GatorDavid says:
wait a minute …
GatorDavid says:
I *do* have the irresistable urge to break into a zoo, jump the fence and try and french-kiss the pissiest looking polar bear …
Tober says:
you’re screwed dude.
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I finally bit the bullet and upgraded.
Davidgagne.net has gone from a loose collection of random html files to a Blogger-powered site to a Greymatter-powered site to its current MovableType extravaganza-ness.
It only took me about a year to make the jump from MT2.1 to MT2.61. That works out to about two decades in internet time, so I’m a tad behind the times. I’m furius with myself for waiting so long. I’ve missed all the cool shenanigans Ben and Mena have been incorporating and so my blog is sort of an ‘82 Plymouth Laser surrounded by a world full of ‘03 Land Rovers.
I’ve really been completely out of touch with the blogging community for months like a year now. Sure, I’m still Google’s #1 for Every time you masturbate, God kills a kitten and good suits, but there’s no TrackBack pinging going on here, no Really Simple Discovery happenin’, and, hell, I don’t even know what the fluck all these creative commons licenses are. I’ve been busy, ok? Gimme a couple of weeks and I’ll try to catch up. (Anyone want to help me get up to speed, feel free to drop me a line.)
I managed to catch both Igby Goes Down and Unfaithful this weekend. They are both excellent and I highly recommend them.
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Gator recruiting hit full stride on Jan. 5, when Chris Leak, the Charlotte Independence quarterback who many consider to be the nation’s top recruit, used halftime of a nationally televised high school all-star game to “invite the best players in the country to join me at Florida and win a national championship.”
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Heh. The “Dude, you’re getting a Dell” guy got busted for marijuana possession.
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A Photographic HisTory of Michael Jackson’s Face
With blithering, yet witty commentary.
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