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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Karma? You Decide

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We then engaged Ed Thompson, who did a masterful job of translating the document into English, and Bod Land, who performed the editorial ta...
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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Organization Man

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[breathe] I’ve been wanting to write two posts for quite a while, and I’ve figured out a way to combine them. Now if I can just write....
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Saturday, June 2, 2012

Unleashing the Word Horde*

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Tired of looking at the old entry, and no time to compose anything coherent. If printed books are dead, no one bothered to tell my publisher...
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Monday, May 7, 2012

quote of the day

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"Observing isn’t the same as seeing. Our own research convinces us that educators do not describe what they see during a classroom obs...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Great Moments in Parenthood

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I have two sons. One just sat in his last college class today; he graduates in a few weeks. He has something like 198 credit hours, having...
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Saturday, April 14, 2012

"America . . . I'm trying to come to the point"

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But first, this musical interlude. This video, a little choppy to turn a nine-minute song into a four-minute one, shows the Nice perf...
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Thursday, April 12, 2012

It's 5 a.m. Do You Know Where Your Productivity Is?

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Yeah, well. What can I say? I think Publisher's Weekly  linked through to the following article, or maybe I saw it on Bloomberg. Does...
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Monday, April 9, 2012

This Just In: Footnote of the Day

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Still a bachelor, with time to spend with his students outside the classroom, he was a popular teacher and even coached crew. In an enterpr...
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Words I’d Change in the Dictionary

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Merriam-Webster's editorial board: Are you listening? health care:  I’ve been uselessly enforcing this one for too long. One wor...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

Quickie Quote

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Alfonso starts laughing before he even begins to tell this story. Back in the 1970s, when lunch hour sometimes included a meal and some al...
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Friday, March 30, 2012

Land on Demand Hits Las Vegas: I Get the "Loathing" Part

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Not impressed. I think what I needed was Raoul Duke and his attorney, the Brown Buffalo, at my side — to keep my mind off everything e...
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

How Not to Do Business

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1. Get my name from another freelancer. 2. Call and give me details on a job, and ask me to work up a bid and schedule. 3. Approve...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

When the Author Pushes Back on an Index

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Sometimes authors make suggestions for indexes after the indexes have been written. That’s understandable, although as an indexer it drives ...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

Quotes: You Can't Unring a Bell

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warning Graphic content here. Not for the weak of stomach.  Just letting you know.  Skip it if you want. You won’t hurt my feelings....
Friday, March 16, 2012

BSL 101: British as a Second Language

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A book had been lurking on my schedule for months. Author told me about it last fall and sent me a draft in November to begin working on it...
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Monday, March 12, 2012

Tales of Brave Ulysses and Matters Mystic

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The title of the post is for the Paisan, but the post is all about me. I mean, this is a work blog, right? My work blog? And the...
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