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Entries from July 2008

Mark has been Off for 2 years

July 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

… but broken for much longer.
This blog, Off the Mark, is 2 years old today. I shall refrain from calling it an anniversary, as such, since last year we sort of decided that my blogging anniversary ought to be from the start of my 1st public blog, …the thoughts are broken…, which debuted in January [...]

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Tags: Communication · FRBR · My Life · Serials · Web/Tech · Weblogs

Love letter to an ex-girlfriend

July 19th, 2008 · No Comments

I went back through my posts of the last two months and there isn’t much explicit mention of the best distraction a boy could ask for. I think the first (and one of 2, maybe 3) explicit reference is in the post “Living room talk.” There are certainly several other references that were mostly for [...]

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Tags: Communication · Conversation · Friends · Music · My Life

There must be a light of some kind

July 18th, 2008 · No Comments

2 views on the slipperiness of words:
Words are clumsy tools. And it is very easy to cut one’s fingers with them, and they need the closest attention in handling; but they are the only tools we have, and the imagination itself cannot work without them.
(Frankfurter 1947: 546) as quoted in Harris, R., & Hutton, C. [...]

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Tags: Morality · Music · My Life · Professionalism

Caresses and punches; or, what big corbicula you have, dear

July 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Caresses and punches; or, what big corbicula you have, dear
Originally uploaded by broken thoughts

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Tags: My Life

O, most frabjous day

July 8th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Things have sort of “settled down” around here; here being the blog. Related things in my daily life got “interesting” and have only progressed. Today was a most enlightening day. [Yes, Christina, that "interesting" was purposefully vague, and for you.  ]
Wow. What to say, or not say? Been working on this for a while [...]

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Tags: Communication · Education · Friends · Language and word issues · Librariana · My Life · Professionalism · UIUC