The first Google hit for “big shiny jelly bean“ is the official Millennium Park Cloud Gate page. Pretty neat. One of these days I’ll make it over there to see it. My one trip to Chicago consisted of eight hours in a conference room and several more hours at O’Hare. I went and saw another of [...]
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figures of speech, part one of ∞
Metonymy is when one thing is referred to as another related thing. An example would be referring to the U.S. federal government as the Capitol. (Tangentially related: Synecdoche.) Prosopopoeia is the personification of inanimate things or non-present people. For example, the flames of the fire danced in the wind. The two should not be confused.* [...]
2009 travels
Places I visited (and number of visits, if n > 1) in 2009: Seattle, Wash. Boston, Mass. (2) New York, N.Y. (2) El Portal, Ca. Yosemite National Park, Ca. San Francisco, Ca. Paris, France (2) Alghero, Italy (2) Bosa, Italy Oristano, Italy Cagliari, Italy Nuoro, Italy Hannover, Germany Berlin, Germany Hamburg, Germany Freehold, N.J. Princeton, [...]
haitian earthquake relief sites
The San Francisco Chronicle online has a pretty good list of charities and relief organizations that are directing donations to Haiti. Check it out. And consult with charitynavigator.org to see how much of your donations actually support the causes to which you are giving.