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- At noon I went and dined with my Lady at Whitehall, and so back again to the office, and after... |
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- Holding up his alphabet board with a look on his face that signified, "Are you ready for this?" Baba pointed out some letters on the board in his nimble way. Then he looked at us to see if we got his spelling. I looked down, thinking, "Oh my gosh, I didn't know what he said," for all I had grasped was that there were four letters. [Renae said later that she could only get the letters S and T. |
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- After that, Mynah was not only saying "Baba, darling," it was imitating each one's voice and intonations as well. If Mehera went inside the room, Mynah hopped up and down and imitated how Mehera said those words; if Naja went, Mynah imitated her, and so on, each in their own distinctive voice. Walu could not say it properly, but the bird imitated that also. |
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- The new Winter Fiction Issue of The New Yorker features a short nonfiction piece by David Sedaris to add to the links (see here and here) I've been collecting and posting in anticipation of his forthcoming (eventually, supposedly in June) Untitled Collection. (Thanks, Maud.) |
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- Posner is a friend. I was his clerk. But the best thing about being his clerk is that he does his own writing, which means the clerk’s job is just to disagree. But in the area of copyright and patent, I’ |
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- Update: I've been told by a few people now that the book is actually quite decent. I'm not trying to insinuate that it's not. Merely that the title and the current state of the released code by Microsoft are not in conjunction with each other. |
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- Dean Announces Foreign Policy & National Security Advisors I read this news on Veterans for Dean blog:Press release from the Dean campaign on Blogformerica.com:Governor Dean today announced the team of distinguished experts who will advise his campaign on national security and foreign policy. Dean will deliver a major address on national security today in Los Angeles at 1: |
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- Dean Announces Foreign Policy & National Security Advisors I read this news on Veterans for Dean blog:Press release from the Dean campaign on Blogformerica.com:Governor Dean today announced the team of distinguished experts who will advise his campaign on national security and foreign policy. Dean will deliver a major address on national security today in Los Angeles at 1: |
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- Let's skip the details of mom getting a small mass removed from her neck, ok? Or, as she put it, "getting the lump cut out of her throat".Last night I went to a party, but it was work. Alcohol and obligatory parties play critical roles in Japanese workplace-relations, often replacing actual social skills, but all that's pretty well explained in "Straitjacket Society", which you can read about, with interesting extra material, here, here, and here.If you want to really feel the suck, read Dogs an ... |
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Castle (Dec 19 2003 23:32 GMT) - BOOKS: The New York Times has an article here about science books for children (click if you're alergic to free registrations). Speaking as a geek with a daughter, this is a great trend. Nothing will kill the love of learning like Science Class in elementary school unless you have a teacher who loves science. Most science classes for young kids are taught by the math teacher or the teacher who knew who Darwin was and as a result of this and the coma-inducing writing of most elementary science bo ... |
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- BOOKS: The New York Times has an article here about science books for children (click if you're alergic to free registrations). Speaking as a geek with a daughter, this is a great trend. Nothing will kill the love of learning like Science Class in elementary school unless you have a teacher who loves science. Most science classes for young kids are taught by the math teacher or the teacher who knew who Darwin was and as a result of this and the coma-inducing writing of most elementary science bo ... |
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- 12/19/2003 More Gift Suggestions - someone gave me this book and I am going crazy about it: Presents Past: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory. For a modest cost you can make the benjaminian groupies on your list go crazy too. |
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- Thank you for the recommendation, Mr. Gaiman.Seriously. Go read the pages that amazon.com will let you. |
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- Just finished the novel I started before Thomas was born. It was B Is For Burglar by Sue Grafton. I read (amongst other things) A Is For Alibi and the first three quarters of B Is For... whilst in hospital waiting for either my blood pressure or a baby to descend. Have realised that the last quarter of B Is For... |
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- Just finished the novel I started before Thomas was born. It was B Is For Burglar by Sue Grafton. I read (amongst other things) A Is For Alibi and the first three quarters of B Is For... whilst in hospital waiting for either my blood pressure or a baby to descend. Have realised that the last quarter of B Is For... |
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- Since the Reagan presidency, the Republicans have pulled ahead of the Democrats in the "manipulate the media" game. (For a great breakdown on how it all started, check out On Bended Knee.) On TomPaine.com we learn of a new tactic, making decisions while the rest of the country's asleep. [electrolite] [comments] |
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- Query...Huh?Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. ~Frederick B. |
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- Query...Huh?Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. ~Frederick B. |
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- Tyler Cohen blogged some interesting thoughts about the relationship of economics and morality this morning over at the Volokh Conspiracy:I would defend economics as providing a good analysis of rules of the game. It can tell us which rules make it easier for people to be moral, and thus offer some good social advice. ... I find it much harder to defend educating individuals in economics as a tool of moral improvement. |
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- Yes, it's early. Hush. We wanted Elayna to open hers before she got her TV time...ElaynaFrom my parents: Playstation 2, Holes on DVD. |
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- Eldonna Bouton: Journaling from the Heart75 Journaling exercises taken from the author's workshops. |
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- Kathryn S. Brogan: 2004 Writer's MarketAn agent/publisher mall with all the how-to's on submitting your material. |
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- A few years back I found a book The Hazards of Being Male: Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege by Herb Goldberg. It made me understand a lot about how I acted in some ways and how I viewed life. |
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- I'm such a BlogSlut - after wasting this morning typing up and doing ongoing edits to my 100, I have now found this and just HAVE to add it now...A-ACT YOUR AGE: 42 but i act about 16 sometimes...B-BOYFRIEND: none but working on it... |
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- Making Light pointed me toward something I hadn't thought about in a while: Lord Raglan's Scale of Heroics, from his book The Hero. A fun party game is using the Scale to dissect your favorite heroes and historic personages. Batman appears to score between 8 and 10, but his story is still in progress. Phileas Fogg only scores a three, mainly because the reader is told very little of the events preceding or following Around the World in 80 Days (indeed, a good part of the first chapter is spent ... |
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The Hero (Dec 19 2003 23:32 GMT) - Making Light pointed me toward something I hadn't thought about in a while: Lord Raglan's Scale of Heroics, from his book The Hero. A fun party game is using the Scale to dissect your favorite heroes and historic personages. Batman appears to score between 8 and 10, but his story is still in progress. Phileas Fogg only scores a three, mainly because the reader is told very little of the events preceding or following Around the World in 80 Days (indeed, a good part of the first chapter is spent ... |
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- I'm already gearing up for the roadtrip. I picked up some audio book CD's from the libary today, including Horatio's Drive, the story of the first road trip across America. (Seemed very appropriate to me!) |
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- A 12-year-old boy died and a young girl was critically injured when they were struck by a car in west Belfast tonight. |
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- This segment brings you quick, easy-to-use information each Saturday morning at 7:45 on TV and on Friday night right here on 7online.com. This week: Charity Finder Sites |
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- Here are some suggestions for last-minute, high-tech stocking stuffers - all under $100 each. |
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- (SOURCE:The Monster Blog)- First of many blogs from companies that you wouldn't associate with blogs. This will nicely complement the awesome Hiring Technical People blog. QUOTEWelcome to the Monster Blog. This blog is dedicated to helping job seekers by providing a faster pipeline into the latest in career advice, tips, news and information. |
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- (SOURCE:The Monster Blog)- First of many blogs from companies that you wouldn't associate with blogs. This will nicely complement the awesome Hiring Technical People blog. QUOTEWelcome to the Monster Blog. This blog is dedicated to helping job seekers by providing a faster pipeline into the latest in career advice, tips, news and information. |
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- Meno undici. Poi tutti questi momenti andranno perduti nel tempo eccetera eccetera.... |
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- Meno undici. Poi tutti questi momenti andranno perduti nel tempo eccetera eccetera.... |
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- Fans of Sandra Tsing Loh know that she sometimes writes about the eccentricities of her Chinese-American scientist father. He used to hitchhike around L.A. -- maybe still does -- and my favorite anecdote about that was the time he got... |
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- This is a table about Vietnam's Rice Exports Remain Strong |
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- This is a table about Thailand Rice Markets Continue to Firm |
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- This is a table about Canada's Weekly Exports Total 590,300 MT total |
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- This is a table about Canada's Visible Pea Stocks Total 148,100 MT |
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- ... kann sich der geneigte Bastelfan bei Yamaha Japan runterladen und ausdrucken. [via Boing Boing] |
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