Category Archives: Writing

Web fonts

Posted on January 18, 2012

I’ve been a little bit giddy over the last couple days at my discovery that the fonts used on my website are not limited to the fonts I have or others are likely to have on their computers. Rather, a … Continue reading →

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Sentences I like

Posted on October 22, 2011

I was told I was a good writer from a young age, and throughout school, including writing grants and a co-first-author manuscript in graduate school, I always felt I had a knack for writing. I never took English after 12th … Continue reading →

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The en dash vs. the hyphen: examples for more precise English usage

Posted on June 4, 2011

You can tell there’s something wrong with me when I have a favorite punctuation mark. It’s the en dash, the bastard middle child between the hyphen and em dash (the familiar “dash”: —), but it can provide oh-so-much clarity and … Continue reading →

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“The Silence of the Lambs” in limerick form

Posted on October 23, 2009

From Randall Munroe’s Wikipedia entry I learned he founded the Limerick Database to collect all the funny classics and new limericks that people could submit. It changed my life. I highly recommend reading the 150 top-rated limericks. However, since the … Continue reading →

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Stephen King’s “Gunslinger” series

Posted on July 6, 2009

Based on the testimony of my friends and acquaintances, Stephen King’s “Gunslinger” series is a phenomenal achievement of literature that everyone should experience if they want to live a full and rich life. At first I was surprised at the … Continue reading →

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Sandra Tsing Loh is a bad writer

Posted on July 3, 2009

I’ve thought of myself as a pretty good writer since I was in elementary school, having been told several times throughout my life by people worth listening to that I had a talent for it. I just haven’t had any … Continue reading →

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Voynich manuscript

Posted on June 16, 2009

The Voynich manuscript is one the most fascinating things I have heard about in a long, long time. I mean, what a fantastic mystery and a fantastic achievement by whoever wrote it! Of course I first heard about it from … Continue reading →

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“Definitely” doesn’t have any A’s!!!

Posted on April 23, 2009

Misspelling the word “definitely” is definitely my new pet peeve of the month. True, most of my pet peeves involve grammar or punctuation, so this is nothing special, but where did all these people get the idea all of a … Continue reading →

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