I’m Steve.
This is my personal blog. It isn’t devoted to any single theme. It is just about whatever is on my mind that I want the rest of the world to know about. The topics tend to be dominated by vegan nutrition, health and fitness, and liberal politics.
I like to talk, a lot. I like to read.
I’m a liberal, an atheist, a Java programmer and a vegan.
I tend to like women for whom the use of Oxford commas is an important issue, though I tend not care much about that myself.
I don’t drink or smoke. I don’t have a problem with people who do. I really like tea, of all kinds.
Welcome to my blog.
I had to Google “Oxford comma” as I had never heard of that term, as I love “serial commas” myself 🙂
Interesting blog. Keep it up!
Thanks for writing about PlantYourPhone.org! How did you find the site online?
You can have my Oxford comma when you pry it from my dead, cold, and lifeless fingers. 😉
I’m writing a book, and stumbled across a decent writer’s guide: The Sense of Style – Steven Pinker. He talks about how English is descriptive, not proscriptive, and how lots of the rules you were taught aren’t real rules. If a writer that nearly everyone considers a good writer breaks a rule, and everyone agrees that it’s good writing, it’s not a rule. Other grammar books introduce a rule, then break it, with no shame or comment of any kind. Pinker’s book is also hilarious.
I’m now hoping that any completed book i may publish makes it to a list of banned books well over a hundred years in the future, like Huckleberry Finn. The current draft makes some inroads here, though this wasn’t a goal until just this moment, you know, because looking up how to put a scroll bar on xterm leads you to this sort of goal.
How would i know if i’m really a robot? Do Androids dream of electric sheep?
You could take a Turing Test.
I never respected grammar lessons in school all that much for the reason you listed.
You could never look up what was proper, so it was always about what the English teacher smugly said was wrong because they said so.