Archive for August, 2006
God and Math: What if the big guy says 2 + 2 doesn’t equal 4?
I was looking at my college webpage on the Internet Wayback Machine last night (the server has been off-line for some years now). Some of you may remember that I rambled quite a bit back then. I read some of my old “blog” entries — my posts were called “Thoughts of the Day” and resembled [...]
The importance of a comma — "a basic rule of punctuation"
globeandmail.com : ‘A basic rule of punctuation’:
A grammatical blunder may force Rogers Communications Inc. to pay an extra $2.13-million to use utility poles in the Maritimes after the placement of a comma in a contract permitted the deal’s cancellation.
I’m a big fan of commas, as you may know. I’m also facinated by the law (though [...]
Thoughts on friendship: "Keeping score…"
The Bible says that “the love of money is the root of evil” — or something similar. We hear that passage misquoted often as “money is the root of evil”. Do you ruminate on what your friends owe you? Is it your turn to pay the bar bill or someone else’s? Did you loan [...]
