Feb 12 2008
Well, after an incredibly long day of working on homework, I still don’t feel caught up at all. However, I did find a picture of this excellent sign that is up in an apartment complex. This, my friends, is a prime example of why misplaced modifiers are a huge pet peeve of mine; they can really convey the wrong message. 😉
Click for the full size:
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Feb 09 2008
Just a little while ago, I received an email containing a poem that needs to be shared with the world. This poem was written by a young girl with cancer, currently in a hospital in New York, United States. When you read the poem, you may feel a variety of different emotions sweeping over you; the true power of wonderful art. These feelings are different for each person, as they are the crashing synthesis of the poem’s message and one’s own life as it relates to that message. For instance, one may feel deeply sad, suggesting that the message is something that one has thought about, yet has not fully considered its implications. I think this a beautiful reminder, and I deeply appreciate the person who sent it to me (you know who you are):
SLOW DANCE
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down,
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask “How are you?,”
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You’d better slow down,
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die,
Cause you never had time
To call and say, “Hi”
You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift….
Thrown away.
Life is not a race. Do take it slower.
Hear the music…
Before the song is over.
|:| Zach |:|
Feb 06 2008
Having just finished a paper on how the media presents scientific findings, I thought I would share it with the world. Basically, this is an anecdotal investigation which focuses on an article by John Cloud that can be found in the TIME Magazine issue from 28 January 2008. In case you don’t have access to this particular issue, here’s a direct link to the article itself:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1704660,00.html
As I am an APA freak, the paper adheres to all of their standards. Reluctantly, I even made sure that the paper had the 1-inch margins (20 mm is a much nicer utilisation of space), and used the dreadfully ugly Times New Roman font (which is definitely a licensing issue in GNU/Linux anyway). Without further adieu, here’s the link to the paper. As always, it is a PDF, which requires the use of Adobe Reader (which can be obtained by clicking the link in the right-hand bar of the Z-Issue). Please right-click and hit “save-as” as a security precaution and to save on bandwidth for multiple readings. If you wish to use any content from this paper, please contact me at:
Zach (at) Z-issue (dot) com
|:| Zach |:|
Thursday, 07 February, 2008 @ ~ 12:34
EDIT: I changed a couple grammatical errors and tense errors in the paper, and re-uploaded.
