30 Nov
New York City Transit’s unintended agenda notwithstanding, e-mail messages and text-messaging may jeopardize the last vestiges of semicolons. They still live on, though, in emoticons, those graphic emblems of our grins, grimaces and other facial expressions. The semicolon, befittingly, symbolizes a wink.

Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location - NYTimes.com

A whole article on semicolons.  Bless you, NYTimes.  It should be noted that I found this article while searching NYTimes for sources to use in a linguistics paper.

30 Nov
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Looks like a visit to Greensboro, AL’s PieLab will soon be in order.  They had their grand opening this past weekend.

28 Nov

Baker, sometimes it’s hard to express how much I miss your silly antics.  (Baker = dancing deer guy.)

(via blindslug & sweatshirtstudio)

28 Nov
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(via blindslug)

28 Nov
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28 Nov
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Three women, 1940.

(garconniere, anjalouise & nitescence)

28 Nov
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Nazroo, a mahout (elephant driver), poses for a portrait while taking his elephant, Rajan, out for a swim in front of Radha Nagar Beach in Havelock, Andaman Islands.

(Cesare Naldi in National Geographic International Photography Contest, feat. on Big Picture, via sblack)

27 Nov
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Standardized tests are the devil.  What do analogies and antonyms have to do with MAs or PhDs?  I have a rather large soap box to stand on regarding this aspect of our education system.

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