Archive for July, 2005

The Insidious Grammatical Effects of the Cyber Experience

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

Anyone who hangs out with me often enough probably knows one of my pet peeves is grammatical mistakes. A specific subset of this pet peeve category, however, infuriates me to no end: that of published and even codified bad grammar.
For example, it’s pretty much become acceptable in the written media to omit the last comma […]

iPod, Therefore I Kill

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

I wonder, is there ever a point where a company can be held to be responsible for making something so good that people would kill each other over it? Tragically, this is what apparently has happened in New York. A fifteen-year-old boy stabbed twice in the chest by a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old boy upon refusing […]

Filled with the Pieces

Saturday, July 2nd, 2005

Isaac has posted some thoughts about pursuing an advanced degree in the area of theology (something which I’ve yet to do, >sniff