Thank you, Mon.thly, for the new feature - a visual representation of my cycle*.
*Dates have been obscured to prevent me from crossing the TMI line.
Glad you like it! Let me know if you think of anything else you’d find helpful and I’ll add it to the list.
“Such is the dilemma of the linguist, or at least the linguist who has any desire to reach anyone outside their—excuse me, his or her—discipline. A sizable group of people is partial to attending discussions and reading books about language. But what this group wants to hear is antithetical to what scholars of this subject want to say.” — Ben Yagoda, In Defense of Common English. The cathartic rants on this subject that my friends have endured could fill a book. (I would write that book, but it would be full of graphic profanity, and national bookstores would certainly refuse to carry it.)
My shell always has the best advice
Don’t keep calm and carry on. (via moleitau and 43 Folders)
Edit: Big thanks to Threadless for this awesome shirt!
“…information is received in inverse proportion to its predictability.” — Mike Ford, This American Life #258: Leaving the Fold. (Keep that one around the next time you’re underestimated.)
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Orion and I spotted this in a Lucky last week.
“The internet is the greatest generation gap since rock and roll.” — Bruce Schneier (Filed under “recently reminded that …”)
The country's new robots.txt file -
Grant pointed this out. Fantastic!
than a planeload of people flying from San Francisco to Chicago in mid January? Today, the temperature difference is just about 80 degrees.