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I would rather be undraped, therapeutic or sensual. It feels more intimate.

It depends on how important the room is to you. If it's important to you, better to have your choice of properties and rooms. If it isnt, then you might be comfortable risking that the room won't be great.

The US has the power and influence it does because it stepped up and assumed those roles after WWII. We wanted it. It wasn't anything anybody shoved down our throats.

I never disliked history, but didn't have great enthusiasm for it. I took some history courses in college that I really enjoyed-modern German history and Soviet history.

My feeling exactly.

Albuquerque is the second of my possible post-SF cities.

When I was a kid, I remember people using the word "fag" for cigarette. When I was in the Army, guys who'd been to Vietnam occasionally called cigarettes "squares."

I grew up in the east, and took Horace Greeley's advice to "Go west, young man." Never regretted it. I've lived in SF for almost 30 years and it has been go, go, go nonstop.

I just have high school French, but I leaned it well and remember a lot if it. I've had very successful chats with French-speaking guys assisted by Google translate.

I've heard complaints that RMs email is unreliable.

It's nothing like the coastal cities, but it has become pretty expensive there. I lived there for 14 years. I go back to visit from time to time and I'm always struck by how beautiful it is. No desire to live there again though. It's interesting that the article cited upthread mentioned Salt Lake City. Ive always liked it, and have had it in the back of my mind as a post San Francisco possibility.

I've always imagined the bone in "boning" was a hard dick.

I was going to say, you hear it in Aussie TV shows and movies.

I think I remember the rationale for it was that the "and" is a replacement for the comma. So having both "and" and a comma is redundant.

So the Oxford comma is the old-fashioned way of placing a comma before the "and" or "or" that precedes the final term in a series? I'm so used to the modern way that omits the final comma that I think the Oxford comma looks busy.

It doesn't make sense from a business standpoint. Devoting the square footage to paying customers probably generates more revenue than allowing someone to take it up with a dog, although allowing dogs certainly generates good will. A couple weeks ago I spent the weekend at the Hilton Hotel in Santa Clara. It's a comfortable place - I always enjoy staying. The one drawback is that there is an awful lot of sound leakage between guest rooms, but occupancy is low on weekends so it isn't a problem. They have started a weekend promotion, I think to attract families, where people are allowed to bring their dogs. All weekend long, I had to listen to dogs barking in the adjacent rooms. I emailed the GM and suggested that that promotion wasn't a good match for a property with such thin walls. She apologized for the inconvenience, but I'm probably done with that hotel. The Hyatt is right next door and costs about the same.

Not the same thing at all. The restaurant is there for its patrons - even large ones. The restaurant as a courtesy to its patrons, may choose to accomodate dogs, but a patron expecting a restaurant to take up space intended for patrons to accomodate an outsized dog doesn't seem reasonable.

Shame on him. There's a special place in Hell for people who subject job applicants to that sort of degradation.

In a soft job market such as we have been in, employers resort to these pathologic hiring criteria because they can. In the developing soft labor market they will find the applicant pool has dried up and instead of rejecting an outstanding applicant because he/she is period challenged, they will have to pay that same applicant a fat signing bonus in order to get them to accept a job.

That's one of those situations that can't help but work out perfectly, even when it looks like it didn't. Nobody ever likes to be screened out. But in screening someone out as a prospective employee over something niggling like one or two spaces after a period, they have also done the prospect a favor by screening themselves out as possible employer for the applicant, because, who, in their right mind, would want to work in an organization that gets hung up on details like that. Fortunately, with a soft labor market, employers are going to have relax some of those pathological employment criteria.

When I was in high school, our Health class, taught by a block-headed PE teacher with a room temperature IQ required a paper.

I would be happy to have a guest bring a well-behaved dog along - if they had checked with me first. I have two cats, so the dog might end up with a scratched nose.

They say that your resume has about x seconds to make an impression. you really think that during those x seconds the reviewer is checking the spacing after a period? I learned 2 spaces, and then, sometime in the 90s, stopped using 2 spaces. I went back to 2 spaces after a client asked me to use 2 spaces in my work product for them. When I bother to notice, it's mostly two spaces but I see a fair amount of work with single spaces after the period. If we are moving to a single space after a period, it's only because people don't receive formal training in keyboarding anymore so aren't familiar with that convention. So it's actually a result of having a marketplace full of poorly trained keyboardists.

All those rules can found in a style guide like Strunk and White. Since I write for a living and it as to be right, I use mine a lot.

The college bound all took typing because they expected to have to do a lot of writing in college. Nearly all the girls who weren't college-bound took it because they were expecting some sort of office employment after graduation.