Erie Times-News Published June 16, 2007 by Rachel Kaufman First, Jennifer Reichert lost her cell phone. Then one day, when she was in class, Reichert’s mother-in-law fell and dislocated her hip. “My husband had the baby (Ryan), and he was supposed to pick Casey (their 10-year-old son) up from school,” said Reichert, 30, of Millcreek. … Continue Reading
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Worth Reading: Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Meta
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Meta from last January’s issue of Technology Review (how do I FIND these things?) profiles Charles Simonyi, who designed Microsoft Office (as well as worked on the world’s first word processor, back at Xerox PARC). He’s perhaps the most successful programmer in the world. (The article makes the … Continue Reading
Free NYT crossword
The NYT, which usually keeps all but its archival Monday crossword puzzles completely under wraps, is offering a web-only Sunday puzzle this week. It’s “by Lee Iacocca” which in this case means he wrote the clues and somebody else put the grid together. I also wonder if he wrote all the clues, or just the … Continue Reading
The Job I Hope I Never Have
Soap opera recap writer. All My Children: Annie is amazed over Ryan’s insistence that he would risk perjuring himself instead of ever testifying against Zach. Ryan and Annie don’t see eye to eye where Greenlee is concerned as Annie admits she empathizes with her plight. Ryan and Annie’s argument ends unresolved. Annie wonders if she … Continue Reading
Diversion of the day: The Book Inscriptions Project
The Book Inscriptions Project collects interesting or odd notes written on the inside of a book. Example: JAN. 22, 1969 dear Tim— This glorious book has very many weird stories in it. It is also a Playboy book- so when you read this book think of the weirdest, sexiest girl, you will think of me … Continue Reading
Do You Speak American?
After finding PBS’s web site for Do You Speak American? I intended to have a long post on this topic, but I’ve been browsing through the material for days and have still found no end to it. It looks as if there was a documentary broadcast on TV back in 2005, and the producers organized … Continue Reading
PSA from your resident grumpy writer (or: In Defense of Lowly “Said”)
Today I am grumpy. It seems one of the most popular search terms for sending people to my blog is “words to use instead of ‘said’.” People, why are you searching for this? What’s wrong with “said”? I have touched on this in an earlier post, but I want to reiterate. Even in more “colorful” … Continue Reading
Worth Reading: Why We Compete
Kevin Streelman arrived, as always, by car. He placed his Callaway golf clubs in the trunk of his Toyota Camry parked outside his condo in Scottsdale, Ariz., wasted two hours in Phoenix rush hour and then drove 300 miles northwest to Las Vegas. He stopped only once, for gas. Streelman already had logged almost 6,000 … Continue Reading
On woodchucks, bits of butter, and buggy bumpers
If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker, it is slick to put a lock upon your stock. For some joker who is quicker will rob you of your liquor if you fail to lock your liquor with a lock. I came across this page of tongue twisters by accident yesterday. I love … Continue Reading
Lessons learned on the job, part 1
If you have aspirations of being a publicist, spell things correctly. If you do not have aspirations of being a publicist, don’t put your name as a contact on the press release form. Once upon a time, I was given a (very poorly written) press release by a local woman. The woman spelled at least … Continue Reading