Category: randomobservations
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Less than Perfection
TX blogger Robert complains about being paralyzed by his ongoing computer problems.
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Reading the World
"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock." -Ben Hecht
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Dating Tips from the Pros (but not from me!)
Sometimes I read sites with dating tips. I always find them fascinating. One subtext of these male-centered sites is that it is ok for a man to hook up with strangers once in a while. It’s a necessary part of growing up (so the argument goes). Once you lose your naiveté about romance and detach…
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I confess
I confess. I frequently use google as my spellchecker. Case in point: prevalant (486,000) vs. prevalent (27,900,000). Will there ever come a time when the number of misspellings of a word will outnumber the number of correct spellings? If that happens, can we properly call one variant a misspelling?