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QotD: Check the Mailbox!

2006-08-14T20:23:59Z

What magazines do you subscribe to, and why? 1. The New Yorker Have for years, probably always will. My favorite magazine by a long shot. I try to read it every week, and often it's the only non-academic reading I do. It's also my only source o...

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QotD: Key words

2006-08-11T01:18:58Z

What are your favorite and least favorite words? Any reasons why? Question submitted by Byrne. Great question!! Favorite words: * Supercilious * Conversant * Problematic / problematize (business-speak/academic jargon) * A billion more I can't t...

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QotD: Sugar, Sugar

2006-07-26T01:42:57Z

What was your favorite candy when you were a kid? How does that compare to now? I was a big fan of Gummi Bears and still am. I was kind of a glutton as a kid, especially 7th-8th grade where I was pretty chunky, and my mom would bring home entire p...

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linguistics

2006-07-26T01:41:10Z

I like this little quiz: ***Your Linguistic Profile:*** 45% General American English 25% Yankee 15% Upper Midwestern 10% Dixie 0% Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak? I would have been very sad if I hadn't scored high o...

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What was your most memorable field trip as a child?

2006-07-12T18:37:09Z

I grew up in suburban Westchester county. in the US, your grasp of American history is strongly dependent on where you grew up. For example, in New England American history consists primarily of all events leading up to, and including, the Revolu...

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Digital Photo Relics

2006-07-07T22:05:33Z

What's the oldest digital camera photo you have on your computer? When is it from? Let's see it! I actually am using my work computer and have no photos, but I did discover an ancient photo album on Yahoo! last year, so here's a few from there. Th...

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review: pretties and uglies

2006-07-07T21:55:31Z

It's a universal truth that a woman in possession of, shall we say, plebian tastes in pop culture is always in want of new trashy teen novels to consume. I still have been unable to exorcise the creeping crud that is the Gossip Girl series (and...

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QotD: Brush with Celebrity

2006-07-06T21:32:48Z

I can't really say that I hobnob with particularly famous crowds. I know a lot of indie musicians, but that's hardly saying much if you lived in Seattle for any length of time. I did meet and hang out with Kim Deal when I was a junior in college,...

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mini-review: counting sheep

2006-06-12T21:14:04Z

Here's that sleep book I've been reading. I'd definitely recommend it as a light non-fiction read that combines history, science, and sociology. Martin definitely has an axe to grind, but it's a fairly benign one: get more sleep. He makes a ve...

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integrating RSS feeds into VOX

2006-06-11T15:35:51Z

Is there any way to add RSS feeds of your other online content to your blog? I'd like to add my tiara.org feed to this blog, but it would also be super awesome if you could add your LJ feed as well. Although my LJ is all flocked, since both LJ an...

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