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This entry originally appeared in The Beaumont Enterprise. Looking to save a little money on tickets to BISD football games with a season pass? You might want to do the math, first… According to the BISD Athletics Department, if you wait to purchase your tickets at the gate, the cost will be $6 per ticket. However, BISD is offering three different packages of season passes this year that will save you some money – but only if...
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As promised, here’s the next installment of Snowflakes In Autumn. I’m posting Chapter Five in two parts this week, although the division of this one runs a bit longer in the second half than the first. Today’s installment isn’t exactly brief, but rest assured you’ll get a little more meat on the bone when Thursday rolls around. Don’t forget to click the Donate button either in my sidebar or at the bottom...
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I was at a loss for a subject for today’s post until about half an hour ago, after Brittany disclosed her discovery of the vile and regrettable videotaped evidence of my first wedding. She’s been working on cleaning out the accumulated detritus of my office, which has – for the last year or so – been the dumping ground of everything that wouldn’t fit anywhere else in the house. It started with boxes, when my...
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First, some business. The next installment of Snowflakes In Autumn will go up next week, broken into two parts and published on Tuesday and Thursday. I’ll probably keep the goal for Chapter Six set at $75, since you guys met that pretty quickly (although much of it was due to a generous donation from a Ms. X in New York, who did wonders to combat the Southern perception of Damn Yankees). We’ll see if we make it to $75 in round...
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Having a problem understanding what your kids are saying? It might not be the normal generation gap at fault, but a fundamental shift in the way people are – or aren’t – understanding grammar. A recent study conducted by Dr. Ewa Dabrowska of Northumbria University suggests that one of the basic assumptions concerning how people interpret language may be wrong. In the past, it’s been assumed that all native speakers...
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I'm a former Webmaster turned Journalist turned Systems Administrator. I once thought I could recreate Spider-Man's web fluid, but only ended up staining the driveway of my friend's parents when some of it spilled out and went runny. Eventually, I became a caustic tech geek, which I'm pretty sure inspired the character of Dr. Gregory House, although the bastards never credited me. Later in life, I'd go on to have a horrific experience in publishing that I don't talk about, except to talk about how I don't talk about it. Later still, I became a web editor and columnist for a Hearst newspaper, where I excelled at being Me until my entire department was unceremoniously laid off. After that, I spent about six months being pretty busy not being busy. It sucked. Then, after missing the light of my radiant glory casting its warmth upon the newsroom for long enough, the paper called me up and asked me back. So I went back. And then I left again. And here we are.
