I compiled the following quickie list of paper-writing tips for a co-worker who is taking online classes and has been away from paper-writing for a while. The whole process seemed difficult for her, so these links cover a broad range of items. Some of the links to academic papers at the end of this list …
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True Work
I had this on my office wall many many years ago, and can’t find the source again. But I think I remember it word-for-word: True Work is that which occupies the mind and the heart, as well as the hands. It has a beginning and an ending. It is the overcoming of difficulties one thinks …
Phrases and misspellings to expunge forever
Mike Shea has a nice list of phrases to be avoided (as well as writing rules from Orwell and Struck & White) here. Among my pet peeves on his list are “on steriods,” “think outside the box,” and “talk offline.” (But I have no idea what “goat rope” refers to.) Herewith, a few of my …
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Nice phrases
These are some phrases that have passed my way that have struck me, for whatever reason. constructive novelty serious fun (a phrase used by one of Liz’s professors) productively idle/idly productive (haven’t decided which I like better) effortless effort I have a mild idea what some of them mean. “Serious fun” is my favorite.
A new Blogger template
I’ve been using Blogger’s Scribe template since I started this thing last year. While I liked the parchmenty feel of the colors, I had two bones to pick with it: ordered lists were always displayed as unordered, and the horizontal rule didn’t work, which led me to do stuff like centering three asterisks to set …
Using Total Recorder to record songs from cassette
I’ve sung the praises of Total Recorder (I’m using it now to record more episodes of In Our Time, and other BBC4 radio shows.) I noticed this procedure I’d put into my old infoindex.doc (I may blog about that file one day), and thought I’d post it here so I’d have it again if I …
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Personal Inventories and Piggy Banks
Whilst reading through some collections of old David Allen essays I’ve culled from his newsletter, I ran across one intriguing nugget that went something like this: Every now and then, take a top-to-bottom inventory of your assets, your processes, your systems. Everything from the shirts in your drawer to the way you pay your bills …
In case you needed another reason to join the ACLU
The Transportation Security Administration maintains “no-fly lists” of people whose names match those of suspected terrorists. As this article reports, the now officially brain-dead TSA maintains lists that include babies under 2 years old. As someone with a very common name, I’m sensitive to these issues. Especially since I recently had to fight a stubborn …
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The Dalai Lama Shower
I saw this originally in Thirty Thousand Days, the newsletter for the ToDo Institute. Given that we’re in one of our periodic droughts (down 5.5. inches from normal), it seemed a good time to post this. I don’t have the original article (which I think appeared in one of the Dalai Lama’s books), but I’ve …
Knock Knock
From webpagesthatsuck.com: Knock-knockWho’s there?Under the Patriot Act I don’t have to tell you.
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