Posts made in August, 2010

…though it would be more acc…

…though it would be more accurate to have a g̃ (g+tilde) which needs to be represented in Unicode as a separate ‘g’ and ‘˜’ codepoints……

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Price of Beer and Oil

Reviewers for a recent piece I’ve been working on uniformly hated one of my favorite lines, which introduced contemporary everyman-angst with something like

Once the prices of beer and oil went into their current trajectory…

The comments were that the reference didn’t fit in with the story (all too true), and that it didn’t make sense that the price of beer would go up just because the price of oil did.…

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Micah Joel

Purveyor of things geeky