Some Grammar Hilarity on a Saturday Afternoon

Having trouble boosting your wordcount?

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Debbie Redpath Ohi is posting a new comic every day for NaNoWriMo.  Thanks for the encouragement, Debbie!

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Write or Die!

So I've been receiving updates in my inbox for the Orlando regional forum on the NaNoWriMo site.  Earlier today I got a nice little message about an application to encourage distractable writers to keep writing.

I know lots of writers are distractable.  I find myself jumping to Blogger when I should be scribbling, and I know I'm not the only one.  But I just may try this application if I feel like I can't stay on track.

Here's how it works.  You set your word count goal and your time goal, then select a mode.  A text box opens that tracks your time and word count.  In gentle mode, if you stop writing, a little pop up comes up to remind you that you haven't met your word count goal.  In normal mode, an annoying song plays.  In kamikaze mode you get a little more incentive to keep writing.  Your text starts deleting itself, word by word, until it's gone, or until you start writing again.  I don't know about you, but that would encourage me to keep writing!

Here's the YouTube video demonstration of the application:

Pretty cool, eh?

The Life of a Blogger

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It's funny because it's true.

Source

Paris Hilton for President

See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or Die

I'm diggin' her energy policy.

Some Signs It's Time to Take a Break

• You measure time by word count.
• You look up from your work and pitch an idea for dinner to your significant other.
• To find out about your aunt's surgery, you send your mother a query email (and attach two writing samples).
• In a phone conversation with a friend you ask, "Can I quote you on that?"
• You get a screentan.
• You close personal emails with "I look forward to hearing from you soon about this exciting opportunity."
• Your thumb has to be pulled away from the space bar like skin on a leather car seat.
• Starbucks asks you to be on their board because of your "generous contribution to the company."
• You finally sit down to watch a little television, and try to use the remote to bring up a Word document.
• Your cat poses as a client to ask your rates for tummy rubs.

Top 10 Ways You Know You Are Really into Coffee

by Christian Di Bono (found here)

1. The "Coffee Fairy" leaves coffee beans under your kid's pillow in exchange for their molar.
2. You quiz the pimple-faced teenager at McDonald's on the exact roast date of the "100% Arabica" coffee being served that day.
3. You vandalize the local Starbucks by breaking in and taking a hammer to the new Super-Auto espresso machines, and as you leave, you spray paint a message that reads "Real Baristas grind and tamp their own coffee!!!"
4. You ask for the espresso machine and grinder in the divorce settlement, but agree to give your wife the house.
5. You enjoy watching squirrels after eating nuts into which you have cleverly embedded a coffee bean. You repeat this dastardly behavior on other animals like dogs, cats, armadillos, and blue jays.
6. You had your pool made into the shape of a coffee bean when viewed from above. Unfortunately now that the divorce is final, your wife gets to enjoy it now, with along with the pool guy.
7. You contend that Elvis' favorite snack was actually a fried peanut butter and banana sandwich, 3 Qualudes, and a non-fat, 2 pump, extra shot, caramel macchiato chaser.
8. Your favorite BBQ rub includes ground coffee, and you insist on using it on that $52 hunk of Filet Mignon, despite your guests telling you that it tastes like crap.
9. You spent $6300 on a new DSLR Digital Camera setup, simply to take close-up photos of coffee beans and naked portafilter shots. Your current girlfried is considering a palimony suit.
10. You roast your own coffee, but you insist on roasting each bean individually for the ultimate in quality.