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Archive for July, 2009

Scheming

Posted in Uncategorized on 2009/07/24 | Comments Off

I need to do my homework, which is working on Scheme. I worked on Scheme before, but alas, that was a long time ago. We’ll see what I remember.

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Chart at the NYT

Posted in Politics on 2009/07/07 | Comments Off

A beautiful chart visually representing the economy since 1965.

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Counting syllables

Posted in Poetry, tagged , , on 2009/07/07 | Comments Off

We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring -
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain -
We passed the Setting Sun -
It occurs to me that Dickinson’s choice of slant rhymes (Ring and Sun) also represents anticipated cognitive shift.
In the beginning of the poem, the speaker portrays the carriage as being in [...]

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