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April 25, 2006 -- 9:51 PM
posted by alison
wow. i feel sick. i hate feeling sick. anyone have a remedy to prevent me from puking? no drinking was involved either... this is pure, straight-on sick. grr
after feeling blech all day, and almost falling asleep standing up a couple times (especially in elevators, ???), now I feel really ill.
April 25, 2006 -- 6:44 PM
posted by Al
The modern rock door was: Sabatoge by the Beastie Boys.
Damn should of phoned in.
April 25, 2006 -- 6:26 PM
posted by Jsese
I might have, but I just got it and liked it so I don't care what you think mister master of the board!!!
April 25, 2006 -- 4:04 PM
posted by Par
Jsese, didn't you post that before, when you originally started using the name "Jsese"?
April 25, 2006 -- 2:24 PM
posted by Jess
That email reminds me of the test group in elementary school I was a part of who learned "whole word spelling." We were expected to memorize the spellings of words instead of learning to sound things out, or all those silly grammar rules like "i before e except after c" or how when you have two vowles together, the sound is the long version of the second vowel. Do you know how many words there are in the english language? Too many to memorize! It also meant that we really had trouble reading words that we hadn't seen often, even if we could auditorally recognize the word. I had a written word vocabulary of about 50 words until grade 3 when my teacher took me aside for "special" classes and we revisited all those grammar things my sister learned in kindergarten and grade 1. Needless to say, that method of teaching kids to read and write was abandoned.
April 25, 2006 -- 1:11 PM
posted by Jsese
My Mommy sent me this
To all I sned tihs to ,
> fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too Cna yuo raed
>tihs? Olny a slaml precneteag fo plepoe can.
>
>i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
>The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
>Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod
>are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the
>rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit
>a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by
>istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot
>slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.
April 25, 2006 -- 11:19 AM
posted by mary
Hello all! I'm not sure if anyone is interested, but I know that some people are thinking of buying homes in the near-to-relativly-near future. Scotiabank is offering a free home-buyer's seminar, here are the details:
FREE HOME BUYERS SEMINAR
- what to look for when house hunting
- how to buy a home with no downpayment
- financing options
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
5:00 pm - 7pm
145 Whitemud Crossing Library
This is actually a really useful seminar, it's not just the bank talking about why you should choose Scotiabank. I'm going, if you're interested in going, let me know (as space is limited and I need to make reservations). You can e-mail me at marye.kupchenko@scotiabank.com
April 25, 2006 -- 10:20 AM
posted by jSESE
I'm pretty sure I posted this before, but it isn't there between the flaming saddledome and alisons trees. maybe I just pressed teh wrong button? who knows? anyways, I am the proud new owner of two dogs. One to pick up the good girls, and one for the bad asses. A golden retreiver, and a rottweiler. yeah!!
April 25, 2006 -- 7:09 AM
posted by Par
Philips and Time Inc. Agree to Keep It Simple:
Philips Electronics, which is gaining a reputation on Madison Avenue for breaking conventions in reader- and viewer-friendly ways, is paying the Time Warner magazine unit $5 million for a novel ad play. Issues of four magazines -- Time, Fortune, People and Business 2.0 -- will feature the table of contents on the first page; a flap on the inside front cover will tell readers Philips is making that possible. The issue of Time that's involved goes on sale Monday, April 24.
The TOC is moved for the benefit of advertisers, so what does it mean when an advertiser moves it back?
Oh, and Andy, I guess you were right. Sales for that climate change sci fi by an Environment Canada scientist are "hotter than hell." (I'd like to note it was the publisher that made that joke, not me.)
