tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11807812.post111863239542102536..comments2023-05-29T08:58:13.381-04:00Comments on Recycled Knowledge: Little Boxes (thanks, Malvina, wherever you are)John Cowanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11807812.post-1133140779915687342005-11-27T20:19:00.000-05:002005-11-27T20:19:00.000-05:00I've been both a suburb and a core area dweller an...I've been both a suburb and a core area dweller and there are things to be said (positive) about both areas. However, I'm glad that I came across this site while researching the "rise and success of suburbs" for a term paper and I must say that the overall flavour of my paper is in degradation of the suburbs and sadly, the blind conformity that seems so prevalent there. Was that a run-on sentence, oh dear, I've been in school too long.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11807812.post-1118712767864066022005-06-13T21:32:00.000-04:002005-06-13T21:32:00.000-04:00Fun. I often sing the original to my son as a bed...Fun. I often sing the original to my son as a bedtime song (the Pagan version of Green Grow the Rashes is another favorite of his). I want to be sure he never forgets the absurdity of suburban subdivision in which he lives. If he ever becomes a programmer, this newer version should remind him of the absurdity of that profession as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11807812.post-1118701887764272592005-06-13T18:31:00.000-04:002005-06-13T18:31:00.000-04:00If a parenthesis wraps one or more sentences, it w...If a parenthesis wraps one or more sentences, it wraps the terminal punctuation too. If it wraps only part of the sentence, it doesn't wrap the terminal punctuation.<BR/><BR/>The same rule should be applied to quotation marks, and is, in sensible countries. But in the U.S. the rule is still that commas and periods go inside the quotation marks whether it makes sense or not. I wantonly violate this rule.John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11807812.post-1118681513349418532005-06-13T12:51:00.000-04:002005-06-13T12:51:00.000-04:00Right, that does it. I'm off to start work as a fr...Right, that does it. I'm off to start work as a <A HREF="http://www.stylusstudio.com/xmldev/200108/post40230.html" REL="nofollow">friggin' carpenter</A>...<BR/><BR/>(Excellent song... should the full stop at the end of this sentence come inside the parens or stay outside? Oh, it was a question mark. This one will finish with a full stop though, right? Argh!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11807812.post-1118643201375386722005-06-13T02:13:00.000-04:002005-06-13T02:13:00.000-04:00Oh, you just made my evening! Passing this along.Oh, you just made my evening! Passing this along.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com