Be humble

Occasionally I see a phrase that is so descriptive that it seems to jump out of the article I am reading.  It may have nothing in particular to add to the article, it just seems to be part of the narrative that seems to have an emphasis and attention getting quality that (to me) draws a visual that has impact.  “Dirty Sex in the Alley with a Bar Slut” just jumped out at me and appeared in an article (the link I have misplaced) which has nothing to do with the specific line.

Uh, oh never mind, just go here

Shoot..I was just about to delete the calender thingy over there on your right—-> see it?  In doing so I realized that if you click on the back arrow on the calendar to another month, it pulls out the articles from that month.  Now if I could just figure out why I want to spell calendar as calandar.  Remind me to tell you about iespell.

Cool!  Bomber Bubba not only got the enemy to reveal the location of his weapons, but he also got him to start destroying them.  All this, before he bombs the hell out of him.

I have been having great fun using Dean Allen’s new beta product Textpattern.  It promises to be a robust and useful product as it matures.  Clearly a writers tool – which I believe is exactly what Dean intends.

Staring at the ceiling last night I realized that, to me, the key feature of Textpattern is the inclusion of Textile.  The other features, some yet to come and some already included, will struggle to meet the already robust pMachine product features.

I wonder if concentrating on developing Textile to the next level is likely to prove more useful to the writing community – rather than developing a stand alone web writing too?

Mad Dog comments on placebo!  I think he is on to something.

This is for CMax:

These friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, a rival florist across town thought the competition was unfair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him. So, the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to “persuade” them to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he’d be back if they didn’t close up shop. Terrified, they did so, thereby proving that Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist friars.

Two boll weevils grew up in the deep South. One went to Hollywood and became a famous actor. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much. The second one, naturally, became known as the lesser of two weevils.

Don’t use your shop vac to vacume highly flammable material.

Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet.  He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him.... what? (Oh man, this is so bad, it’s good) A super callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.