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Curious uses of “bi”
City of Progress March 13th, 2007
When one refers to something as “biweekly”, that is to say it occurs every other week. This is different from “semi-weekly”, which refers to something that occurs twice a week. Thus, biweekly=semimonthly. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Ironic struggles
City of Progress March 5th, 2007
It has been a real struggle to generate my first post for bicoastalcurious.net. I feel obliged as the newly appointed west coast correspondent to add important perspective to this otherwise unilateral operation. I sat down at my office a few days ago and began to compose my first post and I was really foundering. My office-mate looked over at me noticing that I was not stewing over my normal suite of spreadsheets or graph and asked me what I was doing. I explained that I was writing an entry for a blog. He replied, “aren’t you supposed to just like sit down and write what comes to you..” He was born and raised in southern California, and he was right. I am the west coast correspondent, what was I doing? Using the thesaurus, checking my grammar, adding footnotes, fact-checking my sweeping generalizations…I spent 18 deformative years on the east coast but come to you today with a vow to curb my analytical and neurotic sensibilities and provide quasi-objective perspectives from the west coast.
Stay tuned for:
“The Civil War vs. The Mexican America War; an often overlooked comparison”
