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ablestmage — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:08:03 +0000

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Also, Happy 32nd birthday to me ^_^ Site birthday #2 is in December =D

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ablestmage — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:06:22 +0000

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ablestmage — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:04:45 +0000

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ablestmage — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:03:53 +0000

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ablestmage — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:01:13 +0000

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ablestmage — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:58:59 +0000

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Model Railroad Hobbyist Creates Working Model Train Set Small Enough To Be A Model In A Model Train Set

ablestmage — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:02:53 +0000

Imagine a model train set, with a model building of a model train hobbyist at work — on a working model model-train set in that little model building. David Smith created a 1:35,200-scale train set (no wider in total with of the set, than your pinky fingernail).

World’s Smallest Working Model Train Set Unveiled

The preview screen shows how small it is, by holding a ball-point pen next to it. It cost about 6 British Pounds (or USD $9.84) to make, and is fully working, with a little car that makes a journey around an elliptical track complete with mountain pass and painted backdrop.

This detailed photo gallery shows a few steps of the process the hobbyist went through to create the eensy set.

Professional Arm Wrestler Has One Giant Arm

ablestmage — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:38:16 +0000

I’m not sure if this is a hoax, but even if it is, it’s a pretty good one. Matthias Schlitte has one giant powerful right arm that dwarfs just about any other limb on his body. Check this monster out.

Dear Grammar Nazis: Kindly Shutter Thine Yapper

ablestmage — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:12:24 +0000

There’s a roundabout \m/. awesome .\m/ review at Salon.com, of an upcoming book about how most grammar police who correct you for improperly using “there” when it should be “they’re” get their own earful of whats-it-to-ya.

The Lexicographer’s Dilemma addresses how the idea that language, as a set and proper form in dire need of enforcement to ensure the greatest literacy quotient among the populace, is just a bunch of ballyhoo. People who think this are prescriptivists while those who believe dictionaries to be newspapers of how language has been used in the past (instead of how words must be spelled in the future) are descriptivists and how the latter bunch have the right idea for the most part.

As lovely as it would be, I doubt the author included my word for indirectly divulging one’s school of thought on this issue, to squiptipadoogleboinkaflop. I’m just glad the book is out and lays it straight ^_^

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ablestmage — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:57:36 +0000

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