hm, someone else found this.

Working with E-Prime
I've read this article before, and I buy into it a lot. I have not displayed a sufficient faculty with E-Prime to consider myself an expert, and I remember many times which my predilection against absolute statements has gotten me in trouble, but at the very least, since I generally pay attention to this construct, I may avoid the attendant pitfalls of the absolute.

The unfortunate bit appears to be how intrinsic the verb 'to be' is to our language. We could use an equivalent to Dijkstra's "Goto considered harmful" paper for the english language.

"To Be Verb Considered Harmful". If only we could alter our linguistic structure to avoid the damned thing.

Discuss.

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Woke up late this morning after lunging back to sleep to follow _very_ strange dreams I was having. Conspiracies and superpowers, pretty weird. Probably a side effect of rereading The Davinci Code, and researching the Trinity universe.

Work picked up as soon as I got there and kept running - strange problems involving the new filesystem software (veritas volume manager) and the fact it's not, by default, configured to deal with 4.5gb files, which is what I wanted to restore from backup onto it.

No game tonight *pout* so I'm going to try to occupy myself _productively_ for a few hours before nine, when I'm going to debug stride's webpage, if I can. *crosses fingers*

Tomorrow, a train ride, followed shortly after that by a car ride. Should be interesting.

I need new music. Someone should suggest something to me. My preferences are eclectic, but tend towards preferring stuff softer than punk or metal. Anyone have something spiffy to suggest? Recently I've been contemplating Philip Glass stuff, but I'm not sure if he's actually what I'm looking for, since I haven't heard a lot of his stuff.