Archive for: August 2008

Just got my most recent LinkedIn network updates, which included this fantastic piece of logrolling:

Let’s say you’re trying to win an Olympic swimming event. Let’s say it’s the 100 meter freestyle. And let’s say your main opponent is the world record holder.

Not hard enough? Let’s give him a head start.

That’s essentially …

Unlicensed private eye Jim Hardman and his buddy and sometimes partner Hump Evans are at a boxing match when Hump happens across a discarded invitation to a private party. He decides to crash it, but Hardman takes a pass. …

There’s an interesting discussion going on over at Crimespace about “lean” or “muscular” prose, what it is and why it’s used. Gerald So has also weighed in on his own blog..

I think that this misses the point …

Many years ago, when I was eleven or twelve, I had to go in the hospital to have a broken eardrum repaired. To pass the time while I was there, my parents brought me a stack of books, including …