Day 162 - Time to Accomplish

That's the title of my favourite soul song from the seventies. I just performed another case of my recent habit - typing Ctrl-S after I finish each sentence, a habit picked up by typing for too long in word processors and a fear of sudden inexplicable shutdown, destroying each sentence I fought for so long to pluck from the minds of my betters.

Well, the Cable Saga is finally at an end. The letters have been literally pouring in demanding for a resolution, so I sent a little letter of my own...to Harry. Ha ha ha ha ha! Incidentally, I swapped round the final punctuation mark of those two sentences, after I read something recently demanding that exclamation marks be used only for actual exclamations, not just shocking or noteworthy sentences. I fully support this movement - the character of a sentence should be determined by its content and vocaculary, not by some little vertical upstart!!!

When writing about the overuse of exclamation marks irony is, of course, mandatory. Otherwise other clever and smug people won't be able to feel clever and smug, defeating the point of the internet as a whole. As a part, it would still stand, but forever unsaturated. Darn, just did Ctrl-S again. And again. Luckily it actually does save it on this blogging website, which is quite useful. In some other program, however, it may be a shortcut for Scouring Your Hard Drive, so I must be careful in the future.

That's enough, you greedy word goblins.

Day 159 - Why capitALISe?

Website of the day: One Sentence
As the tag line goes, "True stories, told in one sentence"

Reading the one sentence stories is interesting, curious and fun. Even more engaging, however, is looking at the tags people add to their sentences, which sometimes make you read it an whole different light:

When it took me 40 minutes to get from Colorado to Iowa while zoomed in on Google Maps using the arrow keys, I realized biking there wouldn't be an option.

tags: traveling stupid long distance certain someone

I fell in love with her on a chat-site, but when she finally showed me her picture, I am ashamed to say, I dumped her immediately.

tags: dating chat sites beauty and the beast

Of course, sometimes the tags are pretty obvious:



There is a dead frog in my freezer.

tags: frogs death freezers

Day 158 - Youth Folly

I watched Napoleon Dynamite tonight, and so (because films affect me a while afterwards) I feel in a quiet and slightly surreal move.
I'm not going to write any more, but I don't have to.

Day 157 - Underlined for Emphasis

The revision goes well; I have actually started to learn what Knowledge and Reality is all about, and I have decided to make Proof Sheets for all my maths topics - I've already done the same for definitions and theorems, but reluctantly admit that in maths, proofs are important as well. Kay sera, sera, whatever shall be will be, must be.

If necessarily X, then necessarily necessarily X? If possibly X, then necessarily possibly X? Answer: it depends on how you like your accessibility relation between possible worlds. That's the semantic boys roll.