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[rm]

I just had an iPod casting. Anyone who wishes to think the happy thoughts for me, it's most appreciated. Lord that shit was funny.

Later tonight I'll write about Australia and Cyteen or why I realized today that my impulse to reread that book on the flight (I didn't) was actually dead on.

And I found my CDs.

Also, when using a comma a space goes after it -- i.e., "dogs, cats and other animals" (whether you use a comma before the and there depends on which rules you're using). Please conform to this. Please. Because it makes you look educated and aware, and it makes your text (which I and others want to read) much easier to look at ("dogs,cats and other animals" looks like shit. "Dogs" and "cats" are two different words; there is no word "dogs,cats"). I've seen this about 8 billion times on LJ today and finally had to speak.

Finally, I get an inordinate number of hits to my website as a result of people looking for photos of Maltese puppies. I am filled with woe. Cute fluffy woe.

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[ladypeculiar.livejournal.com]

I am filled with woe. Cute fluffy woe.

Dude, I would KILL to be filled with cute, fluffy woe!!

[lllvis.livejournal.com]

speaking of grammatical rules, I was lead to believe one also need TWO spaces after a period. However, most spell/grammar checkers don't seem to like this. Sup wi' dat?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yes and dunno.
It might not technically be a grammar rule, but a "how everyone does it to make thigns readable" rule that comesout of stuff like AP Style. But yeah.

[mobobocita.livejournal.com]

Yes, you are right and American Standard is two spaces. If you want a really good book, Eats, shoots and leaves is a hysterical book about punctuation.

[chite.livejournal.com]

Yes and no.

In standard typing on a typewriter, before the age of "intelligent" word processors, the rule was to use 2 spaces after a period. (This was also the time of "courier" being the standard typeface for a typewriter, and let's face it, it's hard enough to read even with the 2 spaces after a period.) If you look at printed books, however, you'll probably notice that this was not the case. Printed (typeset) books used a spacer after a period that was not the width of 2 characters, but closer to the width of 1 and 1/2 characters. Starting with page layout programs like Pagemaker and Framemaker, and continuing eventually with word processors like MS Word, computer programs began to emulate the look of type-set print in books, and the standard became to use the single space after the period.

[rm.livejournal.com]

All together now kids, "kerning!"

[rm.livejournal.com]

I also just noticed that when I type on LJ I always type two spaces after a period, but of course, only one appears. How wacky. Never even occured to me.

[lllvis.livejournal.com]

Ah, cool. Thanks!

Is this an adoption of the pica (?) bit where they count certain characters either .5, 1, or 1.5 for layout size? It seems I remember a little about that stuff from high school journalism.

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You sure have alot of friends!

[thegrandduel.livejournal.com]

you go, you social butterfly, you!anyhoozer, What's New York like? I live in good ol' Warshington (Washington State, not D.C.)and it's pretty cool but i'm surrounded by trees and feilds and no traffic becuase I'm a woodbilly and live in the forest. That means i can sleep through the night and there's no freakish orange glow the sky reflects. beautiful moon, beautiful stars, baby. Please get back to me. P.S. please check out MY journal, I think you'll find it interesting. P.S.S my sister went to Austrailia last year!