Sarah Pi's comments
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Sarah Pi's comments from the True North group.
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Those are neat - I feel like the giant ones would be even cooler if they had used book spines instead of paint to depict the figures.
Yowza:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/19...
I do not like the idea of a spry crocodile at all.
Welcome to TN, Dorothy!
There were several for me, too, Sher. Raymond Carver & Flannery O'Connor were probably the most well known of the bunch, if I remember correctly. And Tobias Wolff just because of the movie about him, not his writing.
Bun decided she couldn't wait for the mothership to come to her, and set out to track down the mothership.
Larry wrote: "Dang! I thought it was scheduled for 7:15!"It depends on your time zone, I think.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/16...A list of writers recommended by other writers. There are a few of these I'm not familiar with. Who else would you add to the list?
I'd add Grace Paley, off the top of my head.
I also find it interesting that a number of those authors are primarily known for their short stories rather than their novels.
Larry wrote: "Some people have no scruples about other people's property."Indeed. RIP the first guitar I bought with my own money. I've mostly let go of the anger and resentment.
Strange poodles.
Does the shelf have a sign stating the rules?Most of the places I encounter a shelf like that (the library's lunch room, a couple of coffee shops, my gym) there is an expectation that you put books there when you are done and would like to free them to visit others.
Most of the poets I know wouldn't make good ninjas. They are too strange.
Maybe it's a publicity stunt for the upcoming reality show "When Poets Attack".
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/10/28/st...Amazon Technologies has applied for the following patent: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parse...
"A synonym substitution mechanism may programmatically replace selected words in textual data with synonyms for the selected words. The modification to an excerpt performed by the synonym substitution mechanism may not significantly alter the meaning of the excerpt to a human reader. By replacing one or more selected words in an excerpt with synonyms for the words, illicit copies of the excerpt may be recognized by comparing a copy of the excerpt to the original."
So in other words, in order to track where illegal copies have come from, they are going to exchange words here or there for their synonyms.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
If I had wanted to say "jab" instead of "stab" in that story, I would have said it. If I had wanted to say "red" instead of "crimson" I would have said it.
This is a STUPID idea.
Does anyone else who is not already in the field wish they could go back in time and become an astrophysicist or astronomer or astronaut or Carl Sagan every time they see cool photos like these?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/02...
Or when news appears about new planets and other final frontier findings?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space...
Do you listen to the TED podcast? I think my aunt was telling me that there was one, and it was wonderful. I tried to get my work to switch entirely to zipcars, but they actually gave a surprisingly sloppy presentation, and it didn't happen.
It's nice to realize that people are still innovating and coming up with ways to make the lives of others better.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/28...
Excellent points. It's the same thing that makes "stay at home parent" somehow a less valuable role than "working parent". Is it based on the financial value we assign to it?
Stay at home parent makes no money.
Immigrant caretaker makes very little.
Both are considered less than professional.
We value people who push paper and numbers more than people who do actual things, whether it is caretaker, plumber, artist, or farmer.
Our society is not set up to accomodate that sort of need. We're trained to assume somebody else will take care of our elderly, our sick, our family members with disabilities. I think it is a shock every time when people discover how little accomodation is made for us to try to take on those roles ourselves instead of farming them out.
In the developmental disabilities/special education field, there are a lot of women who themselves have older children with disabilities. They raised children with profound needs, and in the process found gaps in the services available, and created positions for themselves to serve both their children and the children of others.Oddly, I don't know any men in the same situation. I imagine most of them are still in their original fields, but their wives left the workforce and rejoined in a new field.
I see similar patterns in the calls I get from younger parents. Most of the calls are from mothers. Many of them are unable to work due to the constant needs of their children. Their families need a second income (or a first, in many cases) but it is impossible to keep a job while running back and forth to school and doctors.
Of course, all this comes back to the Phantom Tollbooth. None of these parents would have any doubts about whether they were doing the right thing if their kids all started with their heads at their eventual height and grew down to the ground.
