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Phone etiquette
Phone etiquette
The Washington Post has tips about phone etiquette in our times (gift link). Useful stuff.
#etiquette#telephone
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Phone etiquette
Awkward metaphor of the day
Awkward metaphor of the day
“Nikki Haley has tried to straddle it, and all she’s gotten is strained muscles”: Claire McCaskill on MSNBC.
#metaphor#MSNBC
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Awkward metaphor of the day
Mr. Parrish and Mrs. Cameron
Mr. Parrish and Mrs. Cameron
It’s just a brief scene with bit players: a customer looking to buy a watch, a salesclerk trying to find something he’ll like. But there must have been someone in a 1950 audience who appreciated the pairing of Walter Baldwin and Dorothy Adams in this scene.
#film
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Mr. Parrish and Mrs. Cameron
Textise
Textise
A handy tool for navigating the Internets.
#browsers
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Textise
Builder’s tea
Builder’s tea
I learned this term from Michael Mosley’s BBC Radio 4 podcast Just One Thing.
#tea#words
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Builder’s tea
Seeing and smelling
Seeing and smelling
“The judge was smart enough to smell a rat when she saw it”: Representative Tom Tiffany (WI-35), mangling an old idiom at the Merrick Gatland show trial just now.
#idioms
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Seeing and smelling
Got stamps?
Got stamps?
In today’s Dustin, paterfamilias Ed is looking for stamps. Snarky Meg wonders who still uses them.
#mail#stamps
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Got stamps?
Facts and truth
Facts and truth
Reading about Russian-textbook “history” made me recall an observation from Robert Caro’s Working: Research, Interviewing, Writing.
#history#truth#RobertCaro
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Facts and truth
Fact-free history
Fact-free history
In The New York Times, an introduction to Vladimir Medinsky, Putin adviser and lead author of new history textbook for Russian high-school students. War is peace, &c.
#GeorgeOrwell#history#truth
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Fact-free history
Reporting the teacher
Reporting the teacher
A South Carolina high-school English teacher was reprimanded after two of her AP students reported her to the school board for teaching about race.
#education#race#teaching
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Reporting the teacher
What not to-do
What not to-do
A scrap of paper, a fresh index card, or a page in a pocket planner is always a better choice than a classified document.
#to-do
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What not to-do