Why my dog comes first

I'm not publicly announcing this yet, but this blog only has two followers so what the heck.

Here's a slideshow essay I made. It's basically a rant about how we teach formal grammar. Feedback is very much appreciated.



Why did I do it as a slideshow? Well, who has the patience to read a blogpost these days? The pamphleteer is long dead. If you have a message you want to promote, it's up to you to make the reader's life as easy as possible, and if that means speech bubbles and a cute dog, so be it.

Removing a Facebook curse

We all know how to protect ourselves on-line from viruses and fraudsters. But what about curses? You see a perfectly-innocent looking message like:

AN ACCURATE HOROSCOPE FOR THE WHOLE YEAR 2013! THIS IS SO DEAD ON TO ME IT'S SCARY...

And before you know it, you've read the line that says:

7 years of bad luck if you do not share this post.

And it's too late! Either spread the evil, or suffer 7 years of bad luck. (Note, the above line is for illustrative purposes only, and is magically inert. I've had it curse-checked.)

Well, I broke a mirror when I was 10, and I can tell you that puberty sucked for me. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. So I did a little research, and it turns out that it is, in fact, possible to break the chain of evil.