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Trying times

Jeff Gerhard — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:27:27 +0000

In Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style, E.B. White talks briefly about indefinable writing style, exemplified by Thomas Paine’s famous line “These are the times that try men’s souls.” ...

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A morass

Jeff Gerhard — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 22:17:58 +0000

I think that one of the odd effects of modern technologies is that everybody can develop their own personal sets of ethics on various topics like, for example, file sharing ...

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Xers

Jeff Gerhard — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:56:58 +0000

I don’t usually get around to doing weekend crosswords but I went ahead and did the Saturday one this weekend while I was on a roll. If I recall ...

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Loping and Lopping

Jeff Gerhard — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 05:59:29 +0000

Here’s day 2 of this experiment, quick before I run off to bed. Not too hard: I will give it a 4 out of 10. So I was ...

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Beam Weapon

Jeff Gerhard — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:04:59 +0000

Hello. I am experimenting here with a silly idea but I don’t know that anybody else is doing it. I do the Washington Post crossword puzzle pretty often ...

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