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I'll take neat printing over sloppy cursive any day, and -- take it from a guy who's graded a lot of bluebooks -- nearly all the cursive you see is sloppy.
Granted, handwritten high school/college/law school exams tend to be excessively sloppy, given the intense time pressures involved, but I'm with Glenn. In my current line of work I take a lot of notes and I basically always print; it makes my notes much more legible to me and others than my script ever was, and once you are in the habit of printing it's not appreaciably slower. I use script only to sign my name.
I agree; I'm a litigator and take a lot of notes as well and always print.
My son (10 yrs. old) has fine motor skills issues and his printing is tough to read; he prefers to use cursive and it is more legible.
I received a job application once that was some of the most beautiful handwriting I have ever seen. The problem was I could not read most of it. I did interview the young lady and complimented her on the beauty of her handwriting, but also made sure she understood that I could not read it.

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For those not keeping score at home, this is the 100th blog since Kay talked me into expressing all the oddball stuff which goes on in my addled mind. When I started 100 was more-or-less the goal -- not really believing there was that much I could think of to say; and sure that if I reached such output I would run out of those boring stories inflicted over the years on my defenseless children.
There is no fixed agenda to this blogging stuff; nothing to sell, no platform sought to proclaim any particular viewpoint or advocate any cause; no specific writing style locked into (unless you count rambling). Maybe I could work on some of that, but all I have is an eclectic brain and observant mindset. Solely for purposes of a mental exercise, I've tried to make every submission as close to 500 words as possible. This is about as much as I can say about any subject, and probably as much as anyone would read. This has meant a lot of really good stuff was dumped, and on occasion a bunch of fluff inserted. So, to date, 50,000-plus words. It never occurred to me anyone would actually read my ramblings other than Kay (who insists on editing my errors) and Jason Moon (who insists on editing my archaic prose). It surprises me when that one other reader says they read it, overwhelms me when they say they like it. Ever since the eighth-grade, people have told me I'm a good writer. That's not exactly true. One of the things I've reaffirmed in all this blogging is that I definitely am not a writer. Hemmingway was a writer. Erma Bombeck was a writer. Kimberly Gleason is a writer. I'm not a writer -- except for that part about throwing Kimberly in with those other guys, that's good writing -- right Kimberly? What I am is what I said when this all started 99 blogs ago: "First, I've never been a good reporter or researcher. Most of what I write I think of as prose written in essay form. Probably the reason very little of what I write is ever read by anyone. "Second, one of my great failures in life has been a failure to be politically correct. Instead I tend to be too honest for anyone's good. Unfortunately this will continue. "Third, I am neither a leader nor a very good follower. Most of what I do is observe and keep an incredibly lot of irrelevant facts in my head. My observations and mistaken memories are what I write." So here we are, over a year into this blogging thing. Is Kay so tired of correcting my typing she's given up and future submissions would be indecipherable? Will Jason stop humoring me and give my spot to Kim? Have I run out of boring stories? Do I have anything left to say? Watch this space. (And this makes exactly 500 words) David L. Lewis is an observer of and sometimes commentator on life who may be reached via e-mail at email@example.com. Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] GOOD MORNING TO ALL. ANOTHER STORY OF DAVID,S I ENJOYED READING. KEEP HIM WRITING KAY.I LOOK FORWARD TO READING HIS BLOG.HIS REMARK ABOUT BEING HONEST IS GREAT. I LIKE A HONEST PERSON. ONLY WAY TO BE. THAT IS WHY I LIKE TO HAVE MY COMPUTOR CHECK OUT AT COMPUTOR CENTERAL. THEY ARE HONEST. -- Posted by firstname.lastname@example.com on Fri, Jul 17, 2009, at 9:57 AM
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I love how I have earned a place in your blog!! Continue to write David. Your blogs remind me of a wonderful man that I had the pleasure to call my grandfather. I know that when I need a break from the monotony of the day, your blogs always entertain me!! Kimberly -- Posted by Kimberly_1984 on Sun, Jul 19, 2009, at 8:27 PM
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Golden Rock is, as the name implies, a rock that has been covered in gold leaf. It's somehow balanced at the top of a mountain and tons of Burmese go to visit every year. You take a truck part of the way up (with seats not made for people my size), and then you can either walk the rest of the way up or be carried up in a litter.
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A number of people have asked if I'm planning to do a graphic novel about Burma. I don't think two weeks is enough time to do a place justice, so I'd be hesitant because of that. I'd also be hesitant because there is already a pretty good graphic novel about Burma: Guy Delisle's Burma Chronicles. I recommend it (and all his other books).
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When you go on a vacation, there are all the tourist spots you are supposed to see. There are all the things that everybody takes pictures of. I've got plenty of photos of pagodas, buddhas, temples and bridges. But just as interesting to me are much more mundane things, like the vehicles people get around in. Maybe it's only me, but I think all these cars, trucks and buses are awesome.
And by far the coolest vehicle I saw was these little old Mazda trucks. They were everywhere.
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I had really hoped to do a lot of sketching while I was in Burma, but I didn't end up doing as much as I would have liked. My mom arranged the trip and packed as many things in as possible, which was good, but when you are seeing lots of things in a short amount of time you don't really have the time to sit and draw. Tourist trips are much more photo opportunity oriented than fifteen minute sketch opportunity oriented. Which was too bad (wouldn't it be great if, instead of cameras, people whipped out little sketchpads?), but I did get some sketches in. Most of the sketches were done in blue pencil and then inked later.
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@parrosenok: I think you may have missed an important point. Primaries are notorious for voter apathy in the USA. Many of the primary voters may have had axes to grind with the establishment. Those that did not vote in the primaries simply may not have attached much importance to the primary vote, and may not have recognized the "danger" of their failure to get out and vote.
While I agree with you that there is a pervasive anti-incumbent mood, I am of the opinion that the overall feeling about primaries' being won by hard-right "tea partiers" will energize the vote in November, and the strategy is likely to backfire. We will probably see that the anti-incumbent mood is nothing compared to the anti-tea-party mood that may be prevalent among moderates and liberals.
Of course, as this is an opinion, I could be proven wrong come November.
Your fear "of that dreadfull female Sara Palin" is a clinical case of Venustraphobia. Haven't you dropped in this discussion by mistake?
Seriously? Voters sweeping out a popular long-term moderate Republican politician in favor of a populist more conservative candidate is a good thing for the party of Joe "Bite Me" Biden? Somebody's whistlin' past the graveyard!
Have we got to fear Christine O'Donnell as much as we fear the rise and rise of that dreadfull female Sara Palin? If we realy want a third world war, these are the people that we need to put into positions of power, example George W Bush, we can thank who ever that J F Kennedy was in the white house in 1962, because if it was G W B we would all be radio active dust now.
The latest Palin-endorsed, Tea Party hacks to hit the right-wing scene, Ms. O'Donnell, Mr. Paladino, Mr. Lamontagne, and Mr. Miller are natural products of our collective ignorance of, and apathy toward policy making in the US. For the last thirty years, Republican voters bought the party's line that promised quick economic fixes with tax cuts, or blamed the "other" for job losses with anti-immigration and "culture war," and "family-value" rhetoric.
... (excerpted, read the long version here: http://completelybaked.blogspot.com/2010/09/it-sounded-to-good-to-be-tru...)
Now, played as fools, those same un-capitalized Republicans who lack corporate lobbying jobs, express rage. They want to fix things by electing goons who promise even simpler, reactionary, answers to our collective problems -- like Mr. Paladino's baseball bat. A quick fix.
Quick fixes got us in this mess, and they're gonna make it worse if we elect these people.
Masturbation is a fine affaire to debate. Perhaps one day Canada will be the last hope of American people. An exit. An utopic horizon. The great canadian paradise where you can do it. Heaven in earth , being Mexico the great Hell to choose if necessary. It is a free world.
How can the people who have put the US in its current debt situation be described as moderates? Statist extremism is not "moderate".
Nice going, Rove. It was your big idea to pick up the rock the Yahoo Right was under; now even you are horrified at what has crawled out. 50%+1 was suicide; you will go down in history as the murderer of the GOP.
rewt66: replacing the days of voting for an R or a D with days of voting for cultural shibboleths instead of serious policy isn't really much of an improvement. But at least I have some hope that shaking up the parties will lead to some changes. The Tea Partiers might do good yet, if only in advertently.
Just when you think it can't get any worse..........
I would love to be find a republican candidate appealling. Perhaps by cleaving the social conservatives away from the republican party the tea party can create a third party, and maybe then the U.S. could open up to a multi-party system. Maybe the republicans could go back to be the party of ideas as is was in the 60s and 70s, and the social conservatives could continue to be what they are.
We could even have a liberal party, and vigorous debate between the various fractions.
Sounds to good to be true, a little like Canada...
Continuing my previous post:
Alexi Giannoulias, the Democratic candidate for Barack Obama's old Senate seat, has three main qualifications: his experience as a senior loan officer of his family's bank, his time as (state) treasurer and a history of playing basketball with Mr Obama. LOL!
"Is the moral state of our country so bad that we rush to the polls to vote for incredibly unqualified people that do not obey our laws and have ultra extreme views?"
Yeah, stay with the leading lights of honesty (like Blagojevich) and moderation (like Bill Ayers), put the "incredibly qualified" community organizers into the highest executive office of the nation, make hiding of candidates' college credentials and birth certificates common practice... and the moral state of the country will reach highs unseen in history of the mankind.
"If she is elected, will Ms. O'Donnell propose a tax on masturbation?"
This is the second thread in which some people are so fascinated by the issue of sexual self-satisfaction that they cannot discuss anything else. I wouldn't like to call them wankers, so please, dear Nycwriter, suggest some more polite but precise term, wuddya?
The Economist asks: "Has the Grand Old Party moved so far right that voters will reject it in the elections in November?"
First, let's define proper terms: there are pseudo-Republicans, called in TE "moderate" (and in Britain, "Labour-Lite" - Cameron and his Tory-boys are a vivid example). As the article shows, one could also call them semi-Republicans, judging by their voting history. And there are Republicans, with no modifying adjectives; "conservative Republican" is as absurd tautology as "sweet sugar" or "salty salt".
So voters went for genuine Republicans instead of fakes... because something which is only half real is 100 per cent sham, no?
On the other hand, voters are sick and tired of genuine Democrats - like those in the White House and around. Obama's radical activism and the rule of reckless loony Left spenders were a very loud wake up call for them. There is no much hope for Dems in, say, Mrs O'Donnell's Catholic views – they are laughable and ridiculous only in the eyes of the pony-tailed sandaled Marxists and liberal media sycophants.
Most of the voters are tolerant to other people's beliefs even if they don't share them – a virtue which enlightened Left-wingers preach but don't practice.
It is not revolt, sir. It is a revolution.
What's wrong with Right America? Have they taken leave of their senses completely & are hellbent on self-destruction?? How else can they elevate imbeciles like Palin, Beck & now Christine as spokespersons & party leaders!!
Is this a temporary loss of sanity or signs of a deep-rooted & prolonged national malaise, that will lead to the disintegration of the country??
There's an old Indian & Chinese proverb that states: "When a hen crows, it heralds the end of an era/world(?)"
Apocalypse beckons!
The Tea Party will save neither the Republicans or the USA. While it might not be the best electoral strategy in the short term, the GOP would be wise to move to the center. Independent-minded liberals like myself are frustrated, too, but what we crave most are leaders who are competent and not crackpots proud to wallow in their own ignorance of history and world affairs, while clinging to simple-minded, extremist ideology. Bush II and McCain 2.0 tried to appeal to Tea Party populist sensibilities, and look at the disaster that resulted.
While I will probably almost always vote Democrat, I would love nothing more than to have a true alternative to consider at the ballot box. For example, I might have voted for McCain 1.0, back when he was a reasonable moderate who presented himself as someone capable of and interested in actually governing and not just campaigning before the Fox News cameras. Being angry, cute, "folksy" witty, and an "outsider" might be great qualities for an aspiring talk-show host, but they certainly fall far short of what it takes to be a lawmaker or executive of any sort.
As voters, we should be demanding excellence in our representatives. Bewilderingly, it seems to me that the Tea Partiers don't even demand competence.
I just love how billionaires (the Koch's) have been able to captivate the minds of these tea party folks, and to really turn them against their own interests. Why would the average tea partier want to slash taxes for rich people while complaining about the deficit? (and their own taxes have gone down under Obama). Why would a tea partier have such vitriolic opinions about improved access to healthcare? I think that these people are being manipulated by the same elites they rail against - like those multi-millionaires Paladino (sure, he's just a regular Joe!), Palin, and all that money that the Kochs can funnel into agitating against any improvement for regular people.
I suggest that all of you who comment in a panic on these shocking events creating chaos, take the time off to read the book that Tony Blair has releasted, "A Journey". This is a very good book. Read it and be welcome to the new world we now live in.
Professional politicians are the only ones interested in party politics, which is good, but most of them are only interested in themselves, and act like they own the job. It's not only one or the other, it is both Democrats and Replublicans, plus independents and tea party activists. As Tony Blair points out, it is the people who must be served. Get on board or get lost. Read the book and understand.
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Looking for reading material to last the upcoming winter? Want to add a touch of green to your indoors while fall storms rage outdoors? Want to clean off the bookshelves and pass on some plant starts? Consider the Homer Public Library Book and Plant Sale, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sept. 29. If you sign up as a member of Friends of the Homer Public Library, the not-for-profit organization sponsoring the event, you get a one-day jump on the sale with a members-only opening from 6-8 p.m. Sept. 28. The sale has been happening every fall and spring for so long it's become "kind of an institution," said library director Ann Dixon. No sooner is one sale over than book donations begin rolling in for the next one. A room filled with the donations is where Erin Hollowell, coordinator of the event, and a crew of FHPL volunteers sort the books and store them in boxes until the sale. There are kids books and cookbooks; fiction, nonfiction and science fiction. You name it, you'll find it.
"The ones that are kind of rare sit by my desk and get put on a special table. We have all sorts of stuff that gets donated, from college textbook-type stuff to paperbacks," said Hollowell. Andy Haas, FHPL president, was excited last year to discover the complete 15-volume series of Lucky Jack Aubrey by Patrick O'Brian. Those unfamiliar with the series may recognize the name as the character played by Russell Crowe in the 2003 film "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World." "I'd already read them, but I insisted a friend buy them for her husband," said Haas. Some people buy books, read them and donate them back to the library. Haas is one of those individuals. "Every year I walk out into the parking lot with books stacked up to my chin," said Haas of the typical 15-book assortment he buys for $5. "I read the books through the winter, turn them in and then see friends buy them the next season." For the library, the twice-a-year sales are an opportunity to share with the public materials librarians remove from the shelves. "We pull out materials that are old or not read anymore or are falling apart or aren't accurate or have old information," said Dixon. "We're always weeding those items out and putting newer, updated materials on the shelves and replacing books that are falling apart." The money raised during the sale goes directly to FHPL to benefit the library. "They pay for classes, help pay for the summer reading program, visiting authors and refreshments at events, propane that is turned on in the fireplace in the winter. Last year they bought some special shelving for DVDs. They pay for things not in the normal budget," said Dixon. A calendar of events posted on the library's website lists the many things FHPL helps support, such as a knitting circle, a genealogy group, drop-in tech help, e-mail basics, getting started with e-readers and an upcoming discussion on civil discourse to name a few. How the combination of books and plants got started, no one seems to know, but FHPL member Lin Hampson is glad it did. While helping with a past sale, Hampson spotted the one remaining plant. "It was sort of gray looking, a flabby hanging plant. It was horrible," recalled Hampson, who felt sorry for the plant and took it home. "One day it just took off blooming. First one blossom and then another and then another." She has since discovered the plant is a Mexican orchid cactus and "when it blooms, it's unbelievable." McKibben Jackinsky can be reached at email@example.com. Homer Public Library Fall Book and Plant Sale Location: 500 Hazel Ave. When: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sept. 29; Friends of Homer Public Library members-only sale, 6-8 p.m. Sept. 28. donations accepted: Books through Sept. 27; plants accepted Sept. 27-28. friends of the homer public library: www.friendshomerlibrary.org; firstname.lastname@example.com; 435-3195. FHPL board of directors: • Andy Haas, president; n Royce Page, vice president; n Marylou Burton, treasurer; n Sue Mauger; n Sean Campbell; n Ann Dixon; n Cleo Webb; n Frank Vondersaar.


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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In connection with the 'Gurupoornima', which falls on July 16, Pandit Motiram Narayan Sangeeth Vidyalay, run by Pandit Ramesh Narayan, will hold a day-long musical celebration at Hotel Pankaj on Saturday. The programme will begin at 8.30 am and wind up at 10 pm.
Uthradom Thirunal Marthanda Varma will inaugurate the fete at Anantha Hall of the hotel. The morning session will have 'gurupooja' - traditional 'swarmalika' rendering of Mewati gharana by Ramesh Narayan and his disciples. This will be followed by a 'bandish' offering by the students of the school. The afternoon session, which will begin at 2 pm, will feature musical offerings by talented singers.
A highlight of the day will be special honour given to renowned classical musician Dr T V Gopalakrishnan. Tabla exponent Pandit Ramkumar Mishra of Benares gharana, veteran musician Perumbavoor G Ravindranath, Soorya Krishnamoorthy and Prof Manohar Keskar will be among those who will offer felicitations at the function. There will be musical presentations by T V Gopalakrishnan and Pandit Ramkumar Mishra. Promoters of Indian classical arts Dr Retnakumar, founder chairman of Bhavalaya, Muscat; and Srihari of Naimisharanyam, Kannur, will be felicitated at the event. The day's events will conclude with a performance by Pandit Ramesh Narayan.
It is the 16th Gurupoornima celebrations being organised by the school, which has been holding similar functions in Kochi and Kozhikode as well. The school was inaugurated in 1996 by Pandit Jasraj, guru of Pandit Ramesh Narayan.
'Madhuvanti Sandhya'
Pandit Motiram Narayan Sangeeth Vidyalay and Vyloppilli Samskrithi Bhavan will jointly organise a musical evening on Sunday which will feature a solo tabla concert by Pandit Ramkumar Mishra, Hindustani concert by T V Gopalakrishnan, ghazal concert by Madhuvanti Narayan and Madhusree Narayan, vocal concerts by Vinay Ramdas (Pune) and Mohan Kumar and a concert by Pandit Ramesh Narayan.
The programme will commence at 3 pm.


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Decorative fruit cake was a type of decorative food that existed in the galaxy. At some point during the Galactic Civil War, a spacer investigated a case of missing Life Day candy for the trader Saun Dann. Dann rewarded the spacer with a choice between the decorative fruit cake and decorative varactyl egg nog.
- Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided (Life Day Events) (First appearance)


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WIP - argyle socks...sorta
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Here is the first of a pair of socks I'm working on. Not sure if it can be officially called argyle, but it's close enough for me. The yarn is KnitPicks pallete, which I'm liking a lot.
WIP - argyle socks. . . sorta
I think they look nice so far, especially with them being your first. They appear to be in the same vein of argyle patterning to me (just the two color kind). Are you using knitpicks' circular needles, how are they working out for you? Katrina |
Beautiful!!! :heart: I love the colors.
Those are cool!
That looks amazing!
I like the pattern. Colors are pretty too. :thumbsup:
Lookin' good!
I'm a sucker for argyle. They look amazing!
Ok...so I just tried this on and....I can't get it past my heel :( Not sure what I can do. The stranding from the color work is preventing the leg of the sock from stretching enough to get past my heel. I'm really bummed. I don't want to have to rip all of this out, but I can't really see what else to do....
gift for a smaller footed person??
ORRRR, turn them into argyle mittens?? |
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