My blog was at http://www.granneman.com/blog, but I then moved it, after several years of living at its old address, to http://blog.granneman.com. I wanted to preserve all my links, however, so that someone going to http://www.granneman.com/blog/2008/04/20/after-a-stroke-he-can-write-but-cant-read/ would instead end up at http://blog.granneman.com/2008/04/20/after-a-stroke-he-can-write-but-cant-read/.
To do this, I edited the .htaccess file in http://www.granneman.com/blog to read as follows (For [...]
Posted on December 11th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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So my friend Carrie is helping me edit my latest book in progress, and we got into an email discussion about the way I write & the edits she made. She sent me this haiku, which I thought was great:
I cannot abide
a run-on sentence, ever.
Sentence fragment, yes.
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“You’ve been hoist by your own retard.”
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A few weeks ago I had my eyes fixed with LASIK eye surgery. So far I’ve been completely happy with the results - it works! In preparing for the surgery, you receive lots of printed materials to read, including a booklet titled “Patient Information”. Inside that booklet is an explanation of the surgery which contains [...]
Posted on May 14th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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In January 2002, I was running for the position of Vice President of the St. Louis Unix Users Group. On the SLUUG listserv, someone proposed that those running for office come clean on any ethical lapses. Here’s what I wrote:
Fine … I’ll go first and admit my ethical lapses.
I used to use Windows. A lot. [...]
Posted on November 27th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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Another image that enters my mind unbidden:
My brother and I are spending the night at Grandma & Grandpa Scott’s house. We’re pretty young … I might be 8 and my brother 6 or 7. It’s the mid-70s. At our grandparents, we go to bed pretty early … say by 10 p.m. This night, Gus and [...]
Posted on November 27th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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An image of my father that enter my mind at odd times:
I’m in high school in the early 80s, it’s the dead of winter and early in the morning, so it’s still dark out, and very cold. My Dad always got up at 6 a.m. and was at his gas station by 6:30. I’m sleeping [...]
Posted on November 27th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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From Twin Galaxies
For the first time in video game playing history, a perfect score was achieved on the legendary arcade game, Pac-Man.
On July 3, 1999 at 4:45 P.M., taking nearly six hours to accomplish the feat — on one quarter — Billy Mitchell, 33, a Fort Lauderdale hot sauce manufacturer visiting the famous Funspot Family [...]
Posted on November 27th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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Another quotation from my wife, Denise, in February 2003: “Your fly’s open. Wiiiiiide open.”
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Posted on November 22nd, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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Denise talking about me, March 2003:
There’s a fine line between a freedom fighter and a conspiracy theorist … and sometimes I’m not sure which you are.
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Posted on November 22nd, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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From Wordsmith.org search for ‘Scott Granneman’
Mrs. Gannet Canto
Mr. Tangent can so!
Ms. Canton Argent
Macon Tangstern
Marc Angstenton
Marcston Gannet
Marcson Gannett
Cramson Gannett
Grant Camsenton
Canton Garments
Torn Can Magnets
Cannet Angstrom
Scranton Magnet
Engram Constant
There are some pretty cool names in there!
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Posted on November 22nd, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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I was an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis from 1985-1989, and a graduate student in English Lit. from 1989-1996. During that time, I racked up my share of library fines (not hard to do when the fines were $0.10 a day, per book), a couple of times into three digits. In fact, I [...]
Posted on June 29th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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