archives for Tuesday 30 August 2005

overheard from production, vol. 1, no. 7

Tuesday 30 August 2005 | I like a cookie

[NB that this week's issue is briefer than usual, owing to the recent placement of a large partition in between your editor and the production department.] • “Don’t you want lunch?” “Nah, I’ve been munching. I’m kind of a muncher.” “You are a muncher.” “I am a muncher!” “You’re a muncher. I’m a grazer!” • [...]

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junebug versus hurricane

Tuesday 30 August 2005 | I like a cookie

I just killed a gnat unintentionally by brushing at, as I thought, a speck of dirt on the screen. But didn’t I know inside it was a gnat, and just not care? Certainly there was a nanosecond when I had just begun to crush and smudge its tiny body across the monitor when I realized, [...]

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