Pondering Words Not On Paper
Just pondering the word book for a minute. Trying to figure out what I’m supposed to say now that I’ve just finished reading my second non-book on my Nook. One novel, one autobiography, and neither bound in paper. Is reading a book going to become some kind of historic construct with no literal current meaning, like dialing a phone. I wonder how many people who use cc: on correspondence (whether electronic or dead tree) have ever even held a piece of carbon paper. Album seems to be surviving into the digital age despite the decline in vinyl and I guess book can survive in the generic in pretty much the same way. I guess I’m just a bit curious how long it will take before the kiddies get confused when the see the paper-bound version and wonder how us old-folk ever survived.
Get Your Tenses Right
Forget that whole “redefining marriage” thing. It’s done and done and we have gone and redefined marriage:
Too Much Smoke Inhaled
Survived the night, and actually the smoke in the immediate neighborhood is down to the point of enhancing sunrises and sunsets without otherwise impacting visibility. I’ll try for some photographic proof of that if things remain calm.
Limited goals for today include locating enough of the law practice in the truck to bill some hours and meet some deadlines. Might even make it to a meeting downtown, but since at least one of the other two principals for this get-together are coming from areas that have been evac’d, not certain if this will work. Some phone tag needs to be played.
On a linguistic note, is the past participle of evac evaced? Or should it be evac’d? Evaced looks like the c should be soft. Damn rule exceptions going around proving everything. And don’t tell me evac is not a word; it’s been in common usage in the spoken language for decades, and the question holds for medevac as well.
