A Petty Blog

When you really mess up with your wife, you end up in The Doghouse.

 My co-worker Chris found this.  I don’t know how he can stand MSN as his home page.

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I don’t remember where I found this at the moment.  I think it was found on a college student center bulletin board.

I think we all know this happens, though it’s the Super Bowl in the U.S.

I’ve just never seen it scientifically graphed.

If the implications are not clear, see the explanation here.

It’s National Procrastination Week.  Seriously, it’s real.

Actually, it was last week and I just didn’t get around to publishing this.

I saw it on Lifehacker, where you can find some tips for dealing with your … issue.

Ever since the dawn of email, there have been issues with email distribution lists and users who do not understand the difference between reply and reply-to-all (’r’ vs. ‘R’ in the old days) .  It is always amusing to watch an incident unfold, because it’s always the same - the ’stop replying to all’ traffic so quickly outpaces the ‘reply to all’ traffic.

Flowing Data visualized an incident thus:

I found a new blog today.

I passed over this entry about a dozen times before it clicked.

 March forth on March fourth in support of National Grammar Day.  Really.

There’s even a society with a website — The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar, “An online journal in which members of The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar document their noble efforts. ” — and a music video featuring Grammar Girl herself.