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diff --git a/thoughts/syntax/my-worst-habit.html b/thoughts/syntax/my-worst-habit.html index 65f19d8..e7fa960 100644 --- a/thoughts/syntax/my-worst-habit.html +++ b/thoughts/syntax/my-worst-habit.html @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ <!DOCTYPE html> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="" xml:lang=""> +<html lang="" xml:lang="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> - <meta charset="utf-8" /> - <meta name="generator" content="pandoc" /> - <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes" /> - <title>my-worst-habit</title> - <style> +<meta charset="utf-8"/> +<meta content="pandoc" name="generator"/> +<meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes" name="viewport"/> +<title>my-worst-habit</title> +<style> html { line-height: 1.5; font-family: Georgia, serif; @@ -181,18 +181,18 @@ through Klim -- a horrible form of powdered milk tasting like rancid chalk -- and pick up on the results. They hock everything to pay the gas bill, and when the man comes around to shut it off for the non-payment, you can hear their screams for miles. When a citizen is -sick from needing it he says "I got the klinks" or "That old stove -climbing up my back." +sick from needing it he says "I got the klinks" or "That old stove +climbing up my back." -Nutmeg. I quote from the author's article on narcotic drugs in the -British Journal of Addiction (see Appendix): "Convicts and sailors +Nutmeg. I quote from the author's article on narcotic drugs in the +British Journal of Addiction (see Appendix): "Convicts and sailors sometimes have recourse to nutmeg. About a tablespoon is swallowed with water. Result vaguely similar to marijuana with side effects of headache and nausea. There are a number of narcotics of the nutmeg family in use among the Indians of South America. They are usually administered by sniffing a dried powder of the plant. The medicine men take these noxious substances and go into convulsive states. Their -twitchings and mutterings are thought to have prophetic significance.")</code></pre> +twitchings and mutterings are thought to have prophetic significance.")</code></pre> <p>This is the only example I know that dares to put parentheses <em>and</em> a long quote within parentheses, unless we're counting math textbooks. In a way it works, since if information is ever @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ the reader to scroll down in the hopes that the story continues.</p> <p>But just in case you think I'm just picking on William S. Burroughs, here's an example I regrettably wrote to a coworker recently with some details removed:</p> -<pre><code>[...] As a precaution, I did review $NOBODY's recent +<pre><code>[...] As a precaution, I did review $NOBODY's recent $THING_I_WAS_ASKED_TO_REVIEW (if you would like a detailed report on that, I can pull that together for you).</code></pre> <p>Somehow, I managed to take the <em>one</em> point worth emphasizing @@ -212,3 +212,4 @@ that, I can pull that together for you).</code></pre> complain when I overuse parentheses. I deserve it.</p> </body> </html> + |