Feedback on a paper: “Never start a sentence with ‘however.’”
Ugh. Come on. That’s ridiculous. Look, I love Strunk and White as much as the next grammar geek, but as long as I put the comma in the correct place when starting a sentence with “however,” you need to step off.
Yep. That’s horrible feedback. The beginning of a sentence is a perfectly good place for “However.”
Here’s how you don’t want to use “however”: “The movie was great, however, it was really long.” That there is a comma splice, which is almost always a no-no. But* put a semicolon after “great,” and you’re fine, because the part after the semicolon would work as a sentence all on its own.
* Yes, it’s also OK to start a sentence with “But.”
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Sentinels of the Arctic by Niccolò Bonfadini:
During winter, with temperatures ranging from -40 to -15, the trees in some areas of the Finnish Lapland get completely covered by snow and ice. This makes for a unique landscape, where everything is white and frozen as far as the eyes can see. That morning I slept in my tent to watch the sun rise from the top of a hill; an eerie mist was forming around the trees, enhancing the mysterious atmosphere.
This does not happen in San Diego. Unfortunately.
(via photographsonthebrain)
Blizzard in Alleyway, Downtown NYC (by Eddie O’Bryan)
Scrolling through my RSS feed of art sites, I saw coffee-shop sketch after coffee-shop sketch after wan-looking portrait, and then there was this.
It’s so stark, so simple, it felt like I’d been smacked in the head with a Louisville Slugger. In a good way.
(via Conscientious | A Letter from London: Stuart Bailes and the Solitary Image)
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The crow knows its place, in a photo shot by John MacPherson. It’s just this sort of behavior that gets him threatened with ejection from his favorite supermarket. Read his funny post.
(via Supermarket)
Love this vintage shot of the original Hollywoodland sign and the San Fernando Valley largely undeveloped beyond the ridge line. I think where I live now is pretty much visible in this shot, though it may be a bit further west.
(Source: theveryomelette)
Filming of “The Stuntman” at the La Jolla Childrens Pool
San Diego, Ca 1978
That was a good movie. I didn’t know it was filmed here.
(via sandiegocalifornialove)
Piergiorgio Branzi
Thanks to wonderfulambiguity
Hanging laundry makes any photo better. Now if only the boy on the left was wearing a fedora and the girl in black was holding an umbrella …
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