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To my fellow grammar nazis:

The latest column of George Will (himself a Grand Wizard of Grammar), about the importance of puncuation in grammar -- http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/national/will/story/9347378p-10271951c.html

A reader once asked James Thurber why he had put a comma after the word "dinner" in this sentence: "After dinner, the men went into the living room." Thurber, a comma minimalist, blamed the New Yorker's commaphilic editor, Harold Ross: "This particular comma was Ross' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up."

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If there is one person you can't stop thinking about, post this same exact sentence in your journal.

And in other news, my power is off, and has been for the last two hours. So how am I posting? I've got work to do, so I'm at an Internet cafe on the beach. Good thing most of my work servers are scattered across the globe. I can access them remotely.

I'm just dialing my home number every now and then, waiting until my answering machine picks up so I know my power is back.

If any post in my journal ever proved I'm just a big geek, this would be that post.

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Aaaahhh, power. Not take-over-the-world power, but mere(!) electrical power. My own computer, my own lights, my own fridge, and especially my own air conditioner.

I stole that "thinking about someone" meme from turtlehead. I didn't expect everyone else in LJ to post it too -- how does anyone get any work done when everyone is thinking of someone(s) else! (Not that I should talk....)