Uneasy Rhetoric

Hot on the heels of Pyramid’s Snow Cap, Sierra Nevada’s seasonal Celebration Ale is out. As is typical of winter beers, this is a robust beer with higher than average alcohol content (6.8 percent). As is typical for Celebration, this is a very good beer. I have never had it on tap; [...]

For me, October is the beginning of the high beer season. October through Christmas is the time of year I give up my Guinness and go for something stronger: the winter beers. I am not an expert on winters, but I’ve been drinking them long enough that I have some favorites. I’ll [...]

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I have not purchased a new French-English/English-French dictionary since before I started college (in college, I bought a petite Larousse Dictionnaire de la langue francaise, but that isn’t an f-e/e-f dictionary). Since I’m taking advanced conversation courses now, and since I’m [...]

Jakob Nielsen posts Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes. Here’s a bit of transparency for you. I’m going to go down the list and analyze my own site. I’ll also make snarky editorial comments because I think the article, to some degree, misses the point. His advice would be spot-on [...]

TF 1, one of France’s major networks, will be broadcasting a new series calls “RIS,” which sounds a lot like CSI:
R.I.S, adaptée de la série italienne RIS – Delitti Imperfetti, est une série policière inspirée assez largement des Experts. Ici, les détectives font partis de la police scientifique et tachent, à l’aide des outils modernes [...]