This morning I was confronted with a grammar question for which I just don't know the answer. Consider the phrase "an essential truth;" now put "essential" in parentheses. Is the indefinite article supposed to be "an" or "a" in that…
Category: writing
I've been trying to find a good, convenient analog for GNOME 3's screen capture utility on Windows 8.1, and it turns out the best of them seems to have been delivered with Windows itself. I'm really bad about screen captures.…
It's easy to look at life's little hurdles and respond with something trite, like "It could be worse," or "You could have brain cancer." The thing is: those things are true; it could be worse, you could have brain cancer...…
I've recently started contributing to another book, and one of my tasks was, like, "start the book." I've been dealing with the tyranny of choice - poorly, as it turns out - and I think I've finally solved one of…
I've been reading Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series, trying to finish it at last after having abandoned it fourteen years ago or something like that. I abandoned it because the books were becoming repetitive, and because Robert Jordan…