Look grandma, if you just tip more aggressively and stock the fridge with imported beer, you’ll be surprised how quickly it can move from the realm of the vicarious.
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The only reason I started Sedition·com was to make myself write. If I’d done it to keep a journal it would have been AshleyIsABoysName.com.
I can think of no better reason to do a web journal. Daily writing, even when it sucks, is like any other exercise: it improves you. There are no rules for writing online. You don’t have to write about your cat, your politics, or your classes. You can write memories, diatribes against your evil mother, fiction, fantasy, whatever. You can do it anonymously if you’re careful too, thus freeing you to write things you might normally be too intimidated to try.
Andreas Ramos has a thorough blog FAQ which includes links to all the free blogging sites. Go for it. Writing is good for you even if you don’t plan on ever doing it professionally. In that case, in fact, it’s good for everyone (sorry, I hadda get one dig in).
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See previous response. One’a these days I’ll iron out the problems with the software I wrote and get it on the CPAN. It’s not ready though and I’m swamped making rude remarks about the Pope and everyone’s female kin for the time being.
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Ain’t gonna happen. Smart quotes are semantic. CSS “smart quotes” is akin to CSS “spelling correction.” Consider the following:
“’Twas the night ’fore Christmas and she said, ‘It’s snowed about 6" so far.’”
Those are very difficult to get right if you don’t pay attention to the meaning behind them. The reason those particular quotes are done correctly is because I wrote a nice Perl module to handle it but even with recursive regular expressions, it’s tricky and without a semantic parser and correct grammar in the target text it cannot be done perfectly.
It’s not that a good try can’t be made, obviously. If code I wrote can get it 99.8% of the time then better hackers could get it 99.99%. CSS is about display and style, however, and as such should not contain logic about content.
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It’s amazing. I don’t know how you guys get the jump on this info. I only started importing the footage into Final Cut today. I just realized it’s kinda funny how it was actually a trailer to start with.
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.44 caliber is a bit big, I find. 9mm/.38 is nice enough and no one can argue that 16 rounds isn’t comforting but 10mm/.40 is the sweet spot for the non-marksman, I think. For those of you putting ’em through the pips at 25 yards, there’s no reason not to go with a Fabrique Nationale Five-seveN Tactical, no? The body armor today could probably suck up all 10 rounds from my .40 S&W Hi-Power but one 5.7mm armor piercing round would zip right through and rattle up and down that poor cop’s rib cage. Hell, you could probably nail him through his vehicle door or concrete cover too. And you’d get 19 more tries if you missed.
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Let’s see… Checkers: Anti-Christ. Dominoes: Anti-Christ. Mahjong: Anti-Christ. Chess: Anti-Christ. Go: Anti-Christ. Tennis: Anti-Christ. One-on-one: Anti-Christ. Mexican handball: Anti-Christ. Hot dog eating contest: Anti-Christ. Ancient languages with Latin focus: Anti-Christ. Lowrider mods: Anti-Christ. Pastry: Anti-Christ. Bare knux (with or without Queensbury): Anti-Christ. Stratego, Risk, Life, Monopoly, Candyland, and Chutes and Ladders: Anti-Christ.
I’m trying to be fair but, honestly, for what do you expect the Prussian codger to take the prize?
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I completely agree. She thought you could have free discourse where reason was the only guaranteed common denominator and that the highest purpose of human life was to be productive, non-violent, and happy. Think of all the damage we’ve been told that kind of thinking has done.
What a twisted fucking bitch. Good riddance.
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