From here, a doo-dad that ranks words according to their commonality. “Got Much Think” are 100, 101, 102, respectively, in the ranking. I figure I’ve got just enough think to “produce various understandings” (625, 626, 627, (with a little license)).
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This Better Be a Hoax
PARIS (AFP) – “A British-built robot generates its own power by gobbling flies, but it has a stinky downside — it needs human sewage as bait to catch the insects and then digest them.” Next up? An plan “to make the droid predatory, using the sewage as bait to catch the flies.” In the...
Labor Day’s Come and Gone
Put away your white pants and your vodka tonics.
Twenty-one Ships Two Islands
… A Dozen or So Sailboats Anchored In The Lee Bluff Park at the foot of Redondo, looking south. 7:10 pm. (Said LMA of the startling number of container ships huddled beyond the breakwater, “It’s an invasion.”)
Twelve Ships Two Islands
…A Handful of Beachcombers A Coupla Sunbathers One Cyclist Bluff Park at the foot of Redondo, looking south. 4:30 pm.
Seventeen Ships (!) Two Islands
…One Barge Five Sunbathers Several Beachcombers One Lifeguard Pickup Plenty of Boardwalk Rollers and Strollers Bluff Park at the foot of Redondo, looking south. 2:50 pm. And since you won’t believe it about the ships (and the pickup) unless you see it, here’s the view looking slightly southeast. All those jagged smudges on the...
Twelve Ships Two Islands
…One Towboat and Barge Bluff Park at the foot of Redondo, looking south. 2:15 pm. (The towboat is between the oil islands, right center of the image. It’s pulling two flat barges.)
Thirteen Ships Two Islands
…Three Sailboats One Sunbather One Beachcomber Bluff Park at the foot of Redondo, looking south. 3:00 pm. (Most of the ships are out of frame, to the left.)
Today’s Quiz
Point of View Quiz In the space below, define each Point of View. Re-write the following brief scene (written in Second Person) in each of the Points of View (First Person, Third Person Omniscient, Third Person Limited Omniscient, Third Person Dramatic). You walked into a burger joint and got in line. The line moved...