Forgive one more political post on what should be a travel / Denver blog. Slate explores the elementary school art of diagramming sentences, and applies it to Sarah Palin’s speeches and interviews.
A rambling sentence from Katie Couric’s interview is taken apart, but the pictured diagram below, from Charlie Gibon’s interview proves not so easy to dissect:
I had to give up. This sentence is not for diagramming lightweights. If there’s anyone out there who can kick this sucker into line, I’d be delighted to hear from you. To me, it’s not English—it’s a collection of words strung together to elicit a reaction, floating ands and prepositional phrases (”with that vote of the American people”) be damned. It requires not a diagram but a selection of push buttons.
Full Slate article - and referenced is the book “ Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences ...
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Phone Book Follow UpFrom: futuregringo.com
Post Date: 2008-03-06 13:00:07
FINALLY! How to opt out of phone books. Sort of.Â
In November I wrote about the frustrations of having useless fax machine size yellow dinosaurs constantly dropped off at my door. I wrote about it in November of ‘06 too .
Most readers agreed that these are about as relevant as an eight track player .  I also found another story about RETURNING phone books , (not just recycling them,) that was done up in Seattle by alternative weekly “The Stranger.”
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more Hostels for FamiliesFrom: futuregringo.com
Post Date: 2008-03-06 12:46:08
Britain’s Telegraph had an excellent story about hostelling for families. Why on earth would I care about that?  Stay tuned for dispatches next week when l’ll have tales of exploring Amsterdam - with my beautiful fourteen month old niece.
Yes its karma time for all the bitching I’ve ever done about kids on planes, kids in restaurants, kids stomping around in floors above you, and etcetera.Â
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more Biking in Amsterdam . VideosFrom: futuregringo.com
Post Date: 2008-04-03 12:45:02
And of course what’s an article about biking in Amsterdam without a few videos to share with my fellow cycling geeks at Bike Forums . This first video is traveling along Haarlemmerweg (or the S103,) from the Sloterdijk Station west of Amsterdam into the city center.
The second: In the narrow streets of The Jordaan, a neighborhood just west of the city center and home to the Westerkerk (church) and the Ann Frank House.
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