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News for the day
Sep. 4th, 2012 10:14 pmNews of the day
In yesterday’s post I forgot to mention my run time. Nothing missed there: it was terrible, I couldn’t even run the whole way. Today, the result was 11:07 over goal. Another small gain, again too small, but the main thing is that I’m running every day. Also, current weight is 6 pounds over goal. That part is working out pretty well, especially given projections over time.
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Once again I find myself loving the Internet. Wolf Lake (with Lou Diamond Phillips and Mia Kirshner), in and out and gone in 2001, and I never got to see more than a few episodes. Now it’s cached, and I can spool through them at my leisure. I was enormously satisfied when I did that with Daybreak; this one probably won’t deliver quite as well, but at least I’ll have been able to follow up.
Meanwhile, when will Season 3 of Glee show up on Netflix? My daughter got my wife really turned on to Glee, and she’s getting impatient.
***
I’m thinking of launching Round 2 of the Circle of Friends Remix (Round 1 fics listing here), which — while small and limited — worked out decently well last year. I have other things going right now, so it would crowd me … but I’m afraid that waiting longer might make it even worse. I’ll probably decide within a week. Anyone who might be interested, stay tuned and let me know!
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The new career I thought I might be entering? I definitely intend to go ahead with that, but I just learned that my primary avenue into it won’t be available for another month. Tomorrow I’ll be investigating alternative means; it might be more expensive, but — if available — it would be quicker. Otherwise, I’ll just wait the month and try to take care of other things in the meantime.
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Grammar/language peeve of the day:
callus/callous
As it happens, “calloused” and “callused” are interchangeable (though “callused” is more proper when referring to literal hard thickened areas on skin, and “calloused” reserved for more figurative description). “Callus”, however, is always a noun, and “callous” is always an adjective, meaning —
1. made hard; hardened.
2. insensitive; indifferent; unsympathetic: They have a callous attitude toward the sufferings of others.
3. having a callus; indurated, as parts of the skin exposed to friction.
— and those two are absolutely NOT interchangeable.
In yesterday’s post I forgot to mention my run time. Nothing missed there: it was terrible, I couldn’t even run the whole way. Today, the result was 11:07 over goal. Another small gain, again too small, but the main thing is that I’m running every day. Also, current weight is 6 pounds over goal. That part is working out pretty well, especially given projections over time.
***
Once again I find myself loving the Internet. Wolf Lake (with Lou Diamond Phillips and Mia Kirshner), in and out and gone in 2001, and I never got to see more than a few episodes. Now it’s cached, and I can spool through them at my leisure. I was enormously satisfied when I did that with Daybreak; this one probably won’t deliver quite as well, but at least I’ll have been able to follow up.
Meanwhile, when will Season 3 of Glee show up on Netflix? My daughter got my wife really turned on to Glee, and she’s getting impatient.
***
I’m thinking of launching Round 2 of the Circle of Friends Remix (Round 1 fics listing here), which — while small and limited — worked out decently well last year. I have other things going right now, so it would crowd me … but I’m afraid that waiting longer might make it even worse. I’ll probably decide within a week. Anyone who might be interested, stay tuned and let me know!
***
The new career I thought I might be entering? I definitely intend to go ahead with that, but I just learned that my primary avenue into it won’t be available for another month. Tomorrow I’ll be investigating alternative means; it might be more expensive, but — if available — it would be quicker. Otherwise, I’ll just wait the month and try to take care of other things in the meantime.
***
Grammar/language peeve of the day:
callus/callous
As it happens, “calloused” and “callused” are interchangeable (though “callused” is more proper when referring to literal hard thickened areas on skin, and “calloused” reserved for more figurative description). “Callus”, however, is always a noun, and “callous” is always an adjective, meaning —
1. made hard; hardened.
2. insensitive; indifferent; unsympathetic: They have a callous attitude toward the sufferings of others.
3. having a callus; indurated, as parts of the skin exposed to friction.
— and those two are absolutely NOT interchangeable.
