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Pathetic Fallacy: February 2015
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Paranormal, Don't You Know. BOO, I say, what. Whatever is this ghestly apparition, don't yew know, at my window, all a-peekin'-in? AHA Mary, darling, 'tis I, your own Matthew, breechin' the space between worlds. I hev become a Heathcliff, wandrin' the moors and tappin' at panes. Oh Mathyew, yew nevah did read much, did yew? But it's not your brains that my loins miss so. Come in and revish me, my sweet zombie cousin! But Cuz, tell me—what is it like, yew know, in heaven? Not long, my pet—I may gaze...
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Pathetic Fallacy: Paranormal, Don't You Know
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Paranormal, Don't You Know. BOO, I say, what. Whatever is this ghestly apparition, don't yew know, at my window, all a-peekin'-in? AHA Mary, darling, 'tis I, your own Matthew, breechin' the space between worlds. I hev become a Heathcliff, wandrin' the moors and tappin' at panes. Oh Mathyew, yew nevah did read much, did yew? But it's not your brains that my loins miss so. Come in and revish me, my sweet zombie cousin! But Cuz, tell me—what is it like, yew know, in heaven? Not long, my pet—I may gaze...
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Pathetic Fallacy: Dot coms and dongles
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Dot coms and dongles. And a collective giggle would pass through the office as everyone commented on the stripper's nails or the patron's polo shirt. I thought about my old job when I heard about the controversy surrounding an off-color remark at Pycon, a tech conference, yesterday. Being careful is not as much fun as being friends.". It appears that the woman who tweeted the image has also been fired. March 21, 2013 at 12:09 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Dot coms and dongles.
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Pathetic Fallacy: April 2014
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April is the cruelest month. We stayed like that, staring for what felt like a very long time. Eventually, we stood up and walked back to the house, faster than before but still in silence. Grandfather was standing by the step as he had been the entire time, smiling with a look of benevolence bordering on grace. Grandpa," I said, "there's nothing there.". April Fool's," he said, without any particular inflection. And then he went inside. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). April is the cruelest month.
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Pathetic Fallacy: February 2014
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In recent years it's become fashionable for designers and critics to view such interfaces with scorn; making fun of a wood-textured background or faux track machine sliders as pointless—or worse, kitsch. Blogs like Skeu it! Cataloged the worst offenders. When Scott Forstall was deposed of his role as SVP of iOS at Apple back in 2012, critics of the iPhone's interface were delighted to declare skeuomorphism dead. Has been, thus far, mixed. Without any clear attitude or theming, the graphical elements are ...
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Pathetic Fallacy: May 2012
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Dial M for museum. At the museum where I work we don't have a receptionist for the office. Callers to our main line are given a message with the current exhibition and hours of operation; for a menu with more information they're instructed to press 5, or to leave a message just wait for the tone. Come and get it. Sounds like someone doesn't "get" the Web. Wait, didn't you say the wheel was for selecting a recording? Now you say it's for making it louder.". Yes, but—". Well, which is it, young man? Covere...
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Pathetic Fallacy: Not fooling anyone
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In recent years it's become fashionable for designers and critics to view such interfaces with scorn; making fun of a wood-textured background or faux track machine sliders as pointless—or worse, kitsch. Blogs like Skeu it! Cataloged the worst offenders. When Scott Forstall was deposed of his role as SVP of iOS at Apple back in 2012, critics of the iPhone's interface were delighted to declare skeuomorphism dead. Has been, thus far, mixed. Without any clear attitude or theming, the graphical elements are ...
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Pathetic Fallacy: MOAH SPOILERS don't yew know
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MOAH SPOILERS don't yew know. We herewith present earlier drafts of Mr. Fellowes's first-draft ending for the fantastically-popular-and-in-no-way-phoned-in-by-a-cast-who-were-already-out-the-door. MARY is in bed looking slightly disheveled but still in the bloom of English womanhood. (Ask Michelle to maybe tousle her hair? Something with the eyebrows. Oh, those eyebrows.). Oh dearest Mary now that you have issued forth a tiny new Earl we need never have sex again! February 19, 2013 at 2:21 PM. On the way...