May 2010
22 posts
Ed Hardy Condoms Bring Rise to Important Questions... →
“Use spaced en dashes – rather than close-set em dashes or spaced hyphens – to...”
– Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, p.80 (via DI). Bringhurst continues:
The em dash is the nineteenth-century standard, still prescribed in many editorial style books, but the em dash is too long for use with the best text faces. Like the oversized space between sentences, it...
Oh Spinoza, you sexy bastard.
Word that gave it away? Juxtaposition.
Found a really great sentence in one kid’s paper. Took me a second to realize it was word for word what I said to them about the text.
Finals week: why I am up at the same time I’m normally going to bed. Sigh.
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It’s like that episode of Buffy where they forget to translate the words under demon’s pic and it says “Actual Size”. #MyShingles #NotBad
Itchy rash has finally emerged. #shingles #itsherpesonyourback
“Flash on Android demo crashes twice. Speaker says “What site would you like to...”
– Jeff Croft, On the Android Flash demo at FlashCamp Seattle (via davidkaneda)
Paper writing will take place fully dressed in bed today because the scratching sound in my living room ceiling freaks me the fuck out.
I can not type to save my life this morning. It is a string of spelling errors and format problems.
Paper writing brain death. Now onto word-webs/outlining, lesson plans, paper grading, research … oh my god, I think I’m going to cry.
Every once in a while a book is so good that I forget I’m doing homework. #ContinentalDrift #CigaretteBreak
Should go to bed, but I have this giant bottle of Jameson and a glass that was clean somewhat recently …
Signs that my cab driver was drunk: He was screaming about how much he liked big boobs.
On the one morning this week I could have really slept in, I scheduled an appointment in manhattan to get my legs waxed. Because I hate me.
Enough time spent on busses in Brooklyn and you’ll come to see that there is nothing redeeming left in this world.
My kingdom for a new kingdom made entirely of gummy.
If your very literal interpretation was enough, there wouldn’t be a reason for grad school. Jackass.
“Ooh, Thank you, doctor, Valium is my favorite color. How’d you know?” #n2n #Saturday