I guess we’d been in the house about two years when the dishwasher, whose brand rhymes with “bitchin’ fade,” first started acting up. The touch panel would periodically lose its mind. This button lit up that LED, and that one this one; START worked one day and not the next; it would insist on SANI … Read more
Shall we go over a couple of money language items, folks? “$2 million dollars” says, literally, “two million dollars dollars.” What you really want is “$2 million,” which says “two million dollars.” I suppose you could just write “two million dollars” as well, or “$2,000,000.” “.59¢” means I can buy 100 of them for 59 … Read more
I like these questionnaires that float around, commonly called memes. I enjoy reading others’ answers, and I appreciate the partial pass they afford when I want to blog something, but I’m not feeling particularly inspired. There’s one question that shows up on a lot of them that I can’t stand, though: “if you could go … Read more