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why my wife is never wrong

Charlie — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:36:17 +0000

“Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground” Noah Webster Noah Webster was an American lexicographer, textbook offer, spelling reformer, word enthusiast, [...]

the end is near

Charlie — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:16:13 +0000

I met two very interesting people while I was attending two very different events. The first interesting person I met was while I was at Super Bowl XLIII. It was actually the night before the Super Bowl XLIII, but I had to say somewhere in this blog that I went to Super Bowl XLIII without sounding [...]

a shadow of my former self

Charlie — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:24:51 +0000

So I started reading Plato… There are only three reasons that anyone (that is not being instructed to do so by his or her college professor) would start reading Plato. One is because it provides useful and meaningful answers for the intellectual, moral, and practical problems of contemporary life. Two is because it provides tools to make fundamental [...]