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Monday, November 22, 2010

Plants.

More plants.

from a Burning Man blog post

After how many shots does your blood alcohol level outweigh your social conditioning?

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Sunday, November 14, 2010

At the risk of offending the Greenies

The earth does not care about what we do to it, it is a planet for Pete's sake. It is not our mother.

To paraphrase Robert Charles Wilson; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Charles_Wilson
The greenhouse effect and humans are like a cancer or plaque on the earth.
(maybe that will mitigate the ire)

For all you wordophiles out there-you know who you are

http://new.adoptaword.co.uk/

and of course A word a Day from Anu Garg, the Indian chap who learned English that because he heard that if you learn a new word every day, after a year the language was yours

Did you ever wonder what the term is for the # sign

It is called an Octothorpe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octothorpe

And the wavy thingy I use for my shark or sailboat that appears at the bottom of my email is a tilde.



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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde

Thanx Bill.