Looks like I will just have to squint through my bifocals… Hello, Currently, a Large Print edition of A Prayer for Owen Meany has not been published. I hope this information helps you. AskALibrarian Or, I guess I could get one of these… It’s a Whole Different Story in the Supermodel Car Four-year-old boy: Mommy, … Read more
A good one from indexed: I was up early today, and I had an über productive day. I completed several action items for the Center for Excellence in Curricular Engagement, including: Composing and mailing a thank you letter form our office to a program assistant in another office who helped us out in a recent event, Creating a … Read more
What is “Begging the Question?” “Begging the question” is a form of logical fallacy in which an argument is assumed to be true without evidence other than the argument itself. When one begs the question, the initial assumption of a statement is treated as already proven without any logic to show why the statement is … Read more
In the morning and up through early afternoon, I worked on Center for Excellence in Curricular Engagement tasks, and at about 1:30 I drove to campus for an afternoon meeting with the team. Our two-hour meeting was shortened to an hour-and-fifteen minutes, due to, let’s just call it a “calendar integrity” issue, around the meeting start … Read more
About One Sentence One Sentence is about telling your story, briefly. Insignificant stories, every day stories, or turning-point-in-your-life stories, boiled down to their bare essentials. Here are my four favorites so far: JDRose He told me I was pretty from certain angles. tags: beauty love [add] N On his last day of class, the middle … Read more
Just this Saturday, Robert and I were discussing the shopping carts that “wander away” from a Food Lion near my house. The conversation started when we saw a couple pushing one up the sidewalk to the corner at which we were turning, and then after making the turn seeing two more of them—carts, not people—waiting … Read more
My buddy Hrafn over at Inkblot Earth found this fantastic audio recording that sounds exactly like you’re getting a haircut. I thought it was so cool that I had to do some research. These are called Holophonic sounds and are made to be listened to with headphones. They are recorded with a dummy head that has … Read more
Okay, I’m not going to say how I came to be reading this trashy celebrity website, but this is definitely one of those things that made me go, “Huh???” In a story about a famous person (though I’ve never heard of him) charged with “barbaric assault and battery” against a woman, I came across this … Read more