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2023-1020

Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.

Found this quote buried in some random folder on my hard drive—from a screenshot I took on March 10, 2021. 

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2023-1230
Found: Random-facts-from-the-internet.txt on a deeply‐buried folder on my HD. Decided to ask the internet again and this apparently is false. According to Mr. Stitt, rupturewort, proprietory, and proterotype are all longer than typewriter—only by a single letter, but…longer. Guess …
2023-1216
1700s · American · Boston · innovation · Inventor · patents · Philadelphia · polymath · Printer · Scientist · Statesman · Writer
Found: listening to Jill Lepore’s brilliant collection of essays, The Deadline: Essays. Specifically, she quoted Benjamin Franklin in Chapter 12, Valley of the Dolls, which is about the Barbie vs Bratz legal battle and …
2023-1205
1900s · 2000s · American · funny · humor · Writer
From an interview with the late, great Larry King. Back in 1975, six of his shows were being broadcast every week to a prime‐time audience:  “All in the Family”  “Maude” “Good Times” “The Jeffersons” “Sanford and Son” …

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