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Where to buy Lionel trains in St. Louis

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:00:47 +0000

If you want to know where to buy Lionel trains in St. Louis, you have a lot of choices. It’s more than possible to make a day of train shopping in St. Louis. I’ve never seen a comprehensive list of

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Linguistic analysis isn’t hooey

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:33:17 +0000

For the second time in two months, I’ve seen a case where a linguist analyzed writing and tried to conclude whether someone was or wasn’t the author of a suspicious e-mail message. The first was a threatening letter purportedly sent

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Quoting famous people accurately

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 05 May 2011 01:45:26 +0000

If you’re going to quote people on the Internet, you might as well quote them accurately. Here are some tips for quoting famous people accurately, based on my own detective work on one of my favorite quotes. “The problem with

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Recovery.

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:18:46 +0000

I went and saw Emily last night. She was beat up, but not as badly as you'd expect someone who'd been thrown from a car to be. She was still in ICU because they're worried about her spleen. She was in pretty good spirits considering everything she'd been through in the past 36 hours.

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Now.. Generations.

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 09 Aug 2001 06:12:36 +0000

Generations. Today I relate better to 40-year-olds than I do to 19-year-olds. I have friends in their 30s who relate really well to me, and to everyone else I know who's close to my age, but I can't step down the same number of years that they can.

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Who is GenX?

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 07 Jul 2001 07:33:10 +0000

Bible Study last night. My buddy Sean and I led the discussion, using "Too much [whatever], not enough God" as our topic. We prepared like mad dogs--I'll bet we each put more than five hours into preparation for this thing--and yet I still looked every bit as disorganized as I do when I prepare an hour beforehand. So it goes. I think when I speak in front of a group I'm always going to look a bit disorganized and a bit eccentric and it's probably just part of me. People seem to like it anyway. One of our regulars brought a couple of friends, and one of the friends came up to me afterwards and asked if I was on the radio, because I seemed to have the voice and charisma for it. That was odd. I've never been complimented on my voice before. And the charisma is easily explained. There wasn't anyone there tonight I was trying to impress. (Which ought to teach me something, but I'm digressing.)

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