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Nnnoooooo!
Bartleby.com is no longer offering web access to The American Heritage Dictionary: “Due to financial and usage considerations the reference works licensed from Columbia University Press and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt have been removed as of June 2009.”
Man, I used that site all the freakin’ time. Now I’m stuck with merriam-webster’s less than stellar etymology. I [...]

Composition versus Moleskine

My bud Daniel Solis recently posted about the Moleskine notebook craze and a somewhat facetious response to it in a blog about the humble Composition notebook. Here is my reply:
I use composition notebooks pretty much exclusively. I flirted with the moleskine jobbies when they started appearing in Borders, but they seemed like a waste of [...]