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13 Sep 2008, 7:48 pm

Saxon Math: The universe's most boring and repetitious
format of teaching surpassed even by ACE math curriculum.

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14 Sep 2008, 8:59 am

News. I can't live without reading my daily dose of it.

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14 Sep 2008, 9:39 am

Ogden Nash

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14 Sep 2008, 10:19 am

Polyhymnia, the Muse of orators and hymn composers.

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14 Sep 2008, 10:51 am

QUIRE: A collection of individual leaves sewn together, usually containing between four and twelve leaves per quire. This "gathering" or "booklet" of individual pages would then be sewn into the larger collection of pages to make the entire book. In manuscripts written after 1400, the quires are often systematically labeled in order to help the bookbinder place them in the correct order. They provide important evidence for the history of specific manuscripts. Missing pages cut out of a quire show modern scholars evidence of ancient censorship, and the markings of the quire can show that books have been rebound or taken apart and "recycled" into new books.

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14 Sep 2008, 11:07 am

ream, n. A quantity of paper, properly 20 quires or 480 sheets, but frequently 500 or more, to allow for waste; of paper for printing, 21 quires or 516 sheets (a printers' ream).

(This uses the OTHER meaning of "quire", which is "twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper".)

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14 Sep 2008, 11:22 am

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14 Sep 2008, 12:15 pm

My favorite philosopher:

Henry David Thoreau.

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14 Sep 2008, 12:18 pm

Uris, Leon

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14 Sep 2008, 12:24 pm

Juan Gabriel Vásquez.

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14 Sep 2008, 1:33 pm

Welles, [George] Orson

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15 Sep 2008, 7:46 am

Xenocide.

Bookworm update: I have just read the news that writer David Foster Wallace took his own life last Friday night. Words can't suffice to say how aggrieved I'm feeling right now.

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15 Sep 2008, 9:02 am

"You Can Be The Stainless Steel Rat" by Harry Harrison

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15 Sep 2008, 3:08 pm

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15 Sep 2008, 3:12 pm

Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
by Friedrich Nietzsche

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16 Sep 2008, 6:10 am

Browning, Robert

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