Sunday, October 25, 2026

An inchoate Sheldon comic strip

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            There is a Sheldon comic strip by Dave Kellett on October 23, 2026 with the following dialogue:   Arthur: ??? You ever...
Friday, October 23, 2026

A useful 2022 book titled Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

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                                    There is a useful 2022 book by Annie Duke titled Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away . You...
Thursday, October 22, 2026

A venue is an indefinite place rather than a thing, so it is a bad name for a sport-utility-vehicle.

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              A few days ago I stopped behind a Hyundai Venue at a traffic light. That is a subcompact, crossover, sport-utility-vehicl...
Tuesday, October 20, 2026

The Laws of Connection is an interesting 2024 book by David Robson

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                            Via interlibrary loan, from the Meridian Public Library, I got an interesting 2024 book by David Robson tit...
Monday, October 19, 2026

Slipping when quoting from a poem

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                                    There is a post about the poem Lepanto written by G. K. Chesterton made by Dr. John Livingston at ...
Sunday, October 18, 2026

Bad advice from a cookbook on how to clean stainless steel

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                                          I have been skimming through a 2025 cookbook by David Nayfeld titled Dad, What’s for Dinner? ...
Friday, October 16, 2026

So and like are useful discourse markers, not just useless filler words

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                             Anne Curzan has the fancy title of the Geneva Smitherman Collegiate Professor of English Language and Liter...