Started Things, the use of which I have discontinued. Phew.
IT’S GREAT TO BE ALIVE?
…so long as you don’t dare ride a bicycle!
A hearty thanks-for-nothing to this 1950’s safety manual for scaring the bejesus out of the youth of America.
And we didn’t even include the pages about the dangers of hiding in leaf piles and flying kites. No, we’re not joking.
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The future, as predicted in 1911 by “the most learned and conservative minds in America.”
Little Big Details: long press on podcast to show the complete title.
Engineers employ technical writing, which is very different from the literary writing you learn in most English classes. Consider this passage:
Helen, thy beuty is to me
Like thos Nicèan barks of yore
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
Edgar Allan Poe
To express these ideas in technical writing, we would simpy say
He thinks Helen is beautiful.
As seen in an engineering textbook.
Check out the slides from SI 658 - a lot of good stuff in there!
TextMate 2.0, please get released.
Joys of the iOS 5 notification center: six days of rain.
I thought I’d write a note proclaiming the second coming of this blog. Hm.