December 2009 Archives

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National Examiner cover features 'Plastic Surgeries Gone Wrong!' Somehow I resist putting a copy in my cart.

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Four people w full carts in line ahead of me at Meijer. All look like they are taking advantage of the sale on cases of soda pop.

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95% sure I saw two of the rigs from Ice Road Truckers roaring along I-90 through blizzard conditions in Western NY this afternoon.

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At Bronner's, Frankenmuth, picking out an adorable Cheese Haus snow globe. Who doesn't enjoy a vigorously shaken globe? #fb

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At the last gymnastics class of 2009. They just called in Ms. Shadi's Tiny Monkeys, Is.'s group. #fb

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Is. does not like my idea for Dander Pets (a spin-off of Wonder Pets): Linny, Tuck, MingMing & Co. induce humans to fitful sneezing.

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A couple of early gems from @thebook : short form as "writing on a grain of sand" (8) and stream-composition as "slow crawl" (11).

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Reading @Dom Sagolla's 140 Characters; encouraged to find it smart, careful, and esp. useful for ENGL328. Link

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This Twitter account is failing to update, YES or NO? #fb #test

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Onslaught continues: Texts surface; Tiger characterized as "the grammar-challenged golfer" in NY Daily News (para. 4). Link

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Wonder whether hosts/esses will one day be used (i.e., traveling, holding signs at MLA, etc.) in faculty recruiting. Link

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Make that 56. #seasonsgreetings

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These 57 Google Wave invitations sure are going to make for a bountiful gift-giving season. #happyholidays

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Rethinking the backcanelé: custard-filled pastries that vanish even though nobody can be seen eating them. #underlife #snacking

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I 01101100011011110111011001100101 computational methods.

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Back from "A Puppet History of Ypsilanti" at Dreamland Theater. Also picked up a portly blue spruce from a local tree lot.

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This is something like a distal or secondary opportunity, more electric than the first: second-wind kairos (if choosing a positive frame).

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How momentary, how time-bounded, is a rhetorical opportunity? Kairos resurfaces later, more forceful and striking than the initial occasion.

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Attending a clown event at REC/IM. Colors the Clown will be introduced any minute. #fb

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@AniKarenina Then anachronistic would be something like anakairotic, right? Anakairotic is going to take some getting used to.

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Anachronism is to chronos as ___________ is to kairos. Any ideas? #therightword

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