today on garrion keillors the writers almanac he announced that it is the birthday of another maine author john crowley. not that i am author per se but do dabble at writing more or less words than may be necessary. clicking on john crowleys name took me to his blog . mr. crowleys website includes a link to the five foot shelf aka the whole five feet . which is......
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theres so much stuff to talk about and we had no podcast this week so i am forced forced i say to declare a lightning round of opinionating thats right i just made up a word deal with it motherfckers i can do that its one of the beauties of english just ask shakespear 8 230 hold the phone whats that damn it. apparently there is already a word that m......
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da es amazon heute nicht geschafft hat mir meine bacher zu liefern far was gibt es denn die option premiumversand dann eigentlich musste ich auf meine eigene bibliothek zurackgreifen. das war aber auch kein fehler denn auch wenn ich der entzauberte regenbogen. wissenschaft aberglaube und die kraft der phantasie von richard dawkins schon kenne ist es trotzdem i......
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en mi lista de sitios que me ligan me encuentro con este que publicaauna lista de cientos de sitios de donde descargar libros gratis en su momento les ofreca una buena cantidad de libros para descargar pero si no les es suficiente aqua hay muchos mas. sitios para descargar ebooks gratuitos a bartleby bartleby tiene una de las mejores colecciones de literatura versos y libros de r......
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i am using some of wordsworths poem ode intimations of immortality as the basis for my prayer on sunday. reading it again brought me back to my english major years when i first encountered it in a class on the romantics. it had an enormous impact on me as it has had an enormous impact on millions of others who have read it and i treasured many of its phrases and committe......
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changed my life. photo courtesy of fox searchlight maybe the best thing about writing for laist is that we are constantly encouraged by our extraordinarily generous editors to reach out into the scary ether and be personal with our stories. sure it doesnt always work out as we intendedwe always eventually clumsily embarrass ourselves a bit by being too personalbut its ......
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if the only prayer you said in your whole life was thank you that would suffice. meister eckhart saw the latest james bond movie quantum of solace. fun and very much bond. actor daniel craig makes one feel bonds pain psychological and physical neither are that much fun. judi dench and jeffrey wright also make for a nice watch.......
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audio clip of ron foreman asking for the word redingote todays podictionary word brought to you by gotomeeting. try it free for 30 days by following the link www.gotome eting.com podcast i didnt feel i could do an episode on the word redingote.a for one thing i already did an episode just this past monday on the word zaftig. how many weird words can i do when my theme ......
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just contrasting moods with frost. robert frost my november guest my sorrow when shes here with me thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be she loves the bare the withered tree she walks the sodden pasture lane. the trees are bare but not quite withered yet. it is damp and getting darker but there is a crispness outside that i wish to......
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as is so often the case in the cyclic world of software development history repeats itself but despite marxs dictum its better the second time. a couple of years ago my tidbits contributions fell off temporarily while i worked flat out on some projects connected with applescript notes from the applescript world 20060213. well its happ......
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for in truth the turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird and withal a true original native of america.he is besides tho a little vain and silly a bird of courage and would not hesitate to attack a grenadier of the british guards who should presume to invade his farmayard with a red coat on. so wrote benjamin franklin to his daughter sarah bache on janu......
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medvedev is waxing krushchevian and the nouveauz soviet intellegentsia is now getting its kicks in he also cited the vulnerable political setup lack of unified national laws and divisions among the elite which have become clear in these crisis conditions. he predicted that the u.s. will break up into six parts the pacific coast with its grow......
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and were not talking about my high school experience.a anyhow nevermind about high school lets talk talent.a noam wasserman who if he didnt come up with the rich vs. king idea and i think he did is certainly strongly identified with itconducted a jumpstart talent seminar about a week ago and it was great he shared several case studies including ......
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a while back i threw up some commentary here about how some are viewing the current global economic meltdown from both sides of the pacific. despite the fact that japan is nowhere near the level of feverpitched uptoyour neckinq uicksand level of pending economic doom that the us is things arent going so well. case in point this article from the bbc points to japanese automak......
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money makes the world go round and cash is king.a the word cash appeared in english right around the time of shakespeare and he being right on top of this language thing used it. todays podictionary word brought to you by gotomeeting. try it free for 30 days by following the link www.gotome eting.com podcast in henry v two soldiers discussing gambling debts mention it.a sha......
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i have been thinking about the sentiment my country right or wrong as well as many potential variations e.g. my party right or wrong my parents right or wrong or my company right or wrong. what i have been thinking is that such a statement of unquestioning loyalty is ripe for abuse and manipulation. i took the time to look up the or......
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heres a pretentious thanksgiving post designed to change our blog personality rating. regardless what you believe about the american puritans who helped lead the way to making this country the worst narcissistic cesspool of jingoistic bubbas the world has ever known i think we can all agree that the puritans of early america were whackjobs. i quote the truth for you as writt......
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obviously this is for students. but its a good thing to offer them especially if you have students who have not been exposed to the internet before. hints for doing an online search 1. make sure you spell any names or words correctly. 2. include clue words that are in the directions. an example from hawthorne is themes influences subject matter and critical reception. 3. ......
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gotta love tahomaexcept tahoma dont look like tahoma should look. so i use verdana its wider than tahoma...never mind im a big fan of a few rss feeds from a number of blogs and techy sites. i saw this one from scienceroll a collection of authors who scour the web for medical related items. the brought me thinkanatomy which links to a number of human anatomy websites. ......
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from presidentelect obamas latest weekly youtube address i know that passing this plan wont be easy. i will need and seek support from republicans and democrats and ill be welcome to ideas and suggestions from both sides of the aisle .aa emphasis added this sounds to me like an amalgam of 1. ideas and suggestions will be welcome from both si......
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this is preeminently the time to speak the truth the whole truth frankly and boldly. nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. this great nation will endure as it has endured will revive and will prosper. so first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itselfnameless unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyzes nee......
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when you can live forever what do you live for photo courtesy of summit entertainment its difficult to review a film that is so purposefully intended for an audience other than myself. with its focus on chaste and forbidden love twilight is clearly aimed at those young teenage girls for whom actual physical love is still some spectral thing and for whom dizzying romance is a......
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the cantaloupe melon gets its name from its brush with the pope. todays podictionary word brought to you by gotomeeting. try it free for 30 days by following the link www.gotome eting.com podcast it is thought that cantaloupes originally were cultivated in armenia before being brought and grown in a place near rome reputedly in the garden of the popes country villa. the ......
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