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It has been hard to sit on this since I first learned of it on Tuesday afternoon. But now the names have been released, and now I can write this. On Monday, 12 December 2011, a helicopter crash near Joint Base Lewis-McChord, near Olympia, Washington, claimed the lives of four United States Army aviators: Captain Anne M. Montgomery, Continue reading Anne Maureen Rockeman “Rocky” Montgomery 1986–2011  I had a friend recommend an article to me today. This article was on the front page of the Seattle Times website, so it was pretty easy to find. It was impossible to read. There were so many things happening on the website all at the same time that the text would scroll up or down a line Continue reading Pop-ups, Splash Screens, and the Seattle Times I write with a constant worry that I’m stealing. Unconsciously, semiconsciously, subconsciously, stealing the lines and words and phrases of other writers. To a certain extent, of course, I am. There are a finite number of words in English, and therefore a finite number of phrases. Someone, sometime, somewhere, has already written “There are a finite Continue reading Plagiarism, Addiction, and “Assassin of Secrets” From a certain Ms Krantz in Philadelphia, PA: Dear Mr. Montgomery; I purchased your novel “Cursing the Cougar” for my Kindle from amazon.com last week. I began reading it today, and I stopped reading it today. I stopped when I got to the line “He’s pretty sure they’re the type who go years without reading, while Morgan Continue reading Best Email Ever From a Dissatisfied Reader I’ve been saying for some time that a whole new breed of publishers is coming. A breed of business based on a whole new model, which is actually an old business model, in which the writer (or perhaps a rich patron) purchases various publishing services from the publishers. You know, like the old days, when you Continue reading Ebook Formatting at Appealize.com …but I didn’t make them. These are from a blog post called “My Lousy Stigma” by Pete Morin. Go there and read the whole thing. A few more examples are warranted. There is a stigma surrounding the game of golf, you know. So many players can’t break 100 and swing like broken windmills. Ruin it for Continue reading Some Excellent Points About the “Stigma” of Self-Publishing… Trust your instinct as least as much as you trust your editor. I’m not going to link to the blog post where I found this, because it’s not my goal here to embarrass or shame anyone, or to set myself up as a better source than another blog. I only want to point out that a Continue reading Correction vs Incorrection Still doing the “research”: This is from a blog post at Language Log, where Mark Liberman quotes the abstract for a course that his colleague, Geoff Pullum, was (in 2004, unfortunately) about to teach: Try to imagine biological education being in a state where students are taught that whales are fish because that is judged easier for Continue reading …and another bit of the same stuff. …although I may never post it. But here’s a seemly bit of stuff I found while researching it (and for “researching” read “blithely clicking links.” As Johnny 5 never said, “Links! Links! Megabytes and megabytes of links!”): Let me be clear — I’m not asking anybody to document that there is actually an overall "growing imprecision of Continue reading Working on a long blog post… I have to move my website to a new host. And that’s a process I hate. Hate, I tell you. Hate with the burning passion of a thousand fiery suns. I know where I want to go with it, but unfortunately, I can’t afford the cost. My site is hosted now by Yahoo Small Business, and they Continue reading Here’s a post that’s going to generate some spam… |
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