Archive for September, 2007
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
1-800-i-love-brand-new-flooring*
We got new flooring in the condo. What we wished was a one day job was scheduled as a two day job and turned into a three day job. I ended up working from home during it on Thursday and Friday. But it wasn’t a normal work from home because of all the hammering and […]
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
been a really busy little while here…
…so I haven’t really gotten around to writing anything here… but things on my mind:
1) been listening to both of Ratatat’s albums… kind of liking how even though they’re kinda both the same sort of stuff, the second one has a subtle change in that they seem to be using more organic drum sounds and […]
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Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Listening notes
I’ve been listening a LOT to Okkervil River’s newest album, The Stage Names. I’ve been really liking it. They’ve expanded their sound a bit and did some new interesting things with the arrangement (which I absolutely love, especially on the track Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene, with the short strokes on the cello-like […]
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
“Zir head hurts.”
Today I was reading a language/linguistics community online*, and someone, referring to a person of unknown gender referred to “zir abilities” (rather than “his or her abilities”). I thought, “zir???”, and asked a similar question to the poster. Apparently, “zir”, along with “zie”, “zirs” and “zirself”, are one version of gender-neutral pronouns, pronouns invented by… […]