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This is the first in a semi-regular series of posts on the important things in life. (Don’t expect regularity in this series. You want regularity, look here.) Thinking. It’s like singing – we all can do it. But that doesn’t mean we’re all Jane Siberry or Joni Mitchell. As a matter of fact, only two of us Continue reading The Important Things: One — Thinking  I followed a link in a blog I read to a blog I don’t read, and found an article by Martin Robbins that starts out by claiming that "Jenny Rohn noted last September that most prominent science bloggers on the main networks are male." (I haven’t followed that link.) It goes on to Continue reading Illogical logic False. (Yet another reason to hate Shakespeare) I can’t tell you how much I hate it when an illogical, inaccurate phrase becomes a common saying, or acts as a phrasal template for all sorts of things, as this one does. (And let’s not even go into that whole glisters/glistens/glitters thing, ok?) All men (women, people, cars, bloggers, Continue reading True or False: “All That Glitters is Not Gold”? A million years ago, when I took my first drafting classes, it was assumed that laying out a drawing required certain skills, and that those skills could be taught. Indeed, the learning of those skills was the primary focus of early-level drafting classes. Of course, the need for those skills still exists, but but Continue reading The Single-Slotted, Three-Pronged Widget – Structure, Syntax, and Ambiguity |
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