Comments on: A Short Retrospective http://chrisgammell.com/2010/01/12/a-short-retrospective/ Analog electronics and everything else between 1 and 0 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tea http://chrisgammell.com/2010/01/12/a-short-retrospective/comment-page-1/#comment-1302 Tea Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:28:40 +0000 http://chrisgammell.com/?p=1510#comment-1302 Think how many more milestones we would have if we used a base four numbering system! Think how many more milestones we would have if we used a base four numbering system!

]]> By: Chris Gammell http://chrisgammell.com/2010/01/12/a-short-retrospective/comment-page-1/#comment-1301 Chris Gammell Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:20:38 +0000 http://chrisgammell.com/?p=1510#comment-1301 Hilarious, thanks Flux Hilarious, thanks Flux

]]> By: Fluxor http://chrisgammell.com/2010/01/12/a-short-retrospective/comment-page-1/#comment-1300 Fluxor Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:39:49 +0000 http://chrisgammell.com/?p=1510#comment-1300 The 24 hour TV news-palooza today borders on infotainment, lacking any sort of creativity as witnessed by the consensus of the blogosphere. To create neologism for issues of the day, all these news networks do is to take sound bite pieces parts and append -gate at the end. But to compare apples to apples, were news organizations in the past any better? I'm not old enough to have that kind of perspective. Surely Obama should appoint a Language Czar to handle this issue. The new czar should be given wide ranging powers to deal with language pet peeves, the Negro dialect, and any and all future languagegates that may appear. The 24 hour TV news-palooza today borders on infotainment, lacking any sort of creativity as witnessed by the consensus of the blogosphere. To create neologism for issues of the day, all these news networks do is to take sound bite pieces parts and append -gate at the end. But to compare apples to apples, were news organizations in the past any better? I'm not old enough to have that kind of perspective.

Surely Obama should appoint a Language Czar to handle this issue. The new czar should be given wide ranging powers to deal with language pet peeves, the Negro dialect, and any and all future languagegates that may appear.

]]> By: Cherish http://chrisgammell.com/2010/01/12/a-short-retrospective/comment-page-1/#comment-1299 Cherish Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:06:04 +0000 http://chrisgammell.com/?p=1510#comment-1299 I really hate that anything that even smacks of conspiracy becomes [some short descriptor]-gate. For heaven's sake, can't people be original? I bet half the people using it aren't even sure where it came from.... I really hate that anything that even smacks of conspiracy becomes [some short descriptor]-gate.

For heaven's sake, can't people be original? I bet half the people using it aren't even sure where it came from....

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