Month: July 2006

In my continuing series of sequels to posts that just don’t lend themselves to sequels, I’ve rethought the idea of quotation marks sounding sarcastic. I now think that quotation marks sound sarcastic even if you use them in the appropriate way. Check this out: My gay friend Walter really liked that musical, “Cats.” “Hello,” he…

Partial quotation marks make everything sound like you’re making fun of it. It doesn’t even matter where the quotes are or whether you’re reading them or saying them out loud (when saying out loud you must do ‘air quotes’ to get the same effect). Try it with your own examples. Here are mine: I “love”…

They asked me to stay another week. I think I’m going to yell. I thought I’d paid my final rent check, but no… The editor called me in and asked me if I could stay until the 12th. I couldn’t think of a suitable excuse to say no, so I agreed. Now my friend who…

In my continuing series of sequels to posts that just don’t lend themselves to sequels, I have come up with a new puzzle for you all to wrack your heads on. This, if you’ll recall, is the original puzzle (I use ‘original’ lightly): You are faced with two guys: Ni and Nii. One of them…

I once had an e-mail address I’d use for everything. This was back in the day where they gave you about fifty megabytes and expected you to deal with it. This was back when hotmail was HoTMaiL. This was before hotmail was owned by MSN, back when it was a new concept to be able…

Somehow I was compared to this guy. Now, I’m not offended, I rather like his blog, but the comparison still struck me as odd. I haven’t been political on this blog since… Well, May 6th comes to mind, but the true day would be something like… January 27th? And that wasn’t even current events. If…