![]() ![]() During his first few months in office, the younger Mr. Something else weighed on him, too: the long shadow of his father, Mario, who rose to national prominence as the conscience of the Democratic Party, passionately defending the poor and assailing the death penalty. Cuomo’s girlfriend, Sandra Lee, has an openly gay brother, and she frequently reminded the governor how much she wanted the law to change. ![]() He campaigned on the issue in the race for governor last year, and after his election, he was staggered by the number of gay couples who sought him out at restaurants and on the street, prodding him, sometimes tearfully, to deliver on his word. ![]() Over time, however, championing same-sex marriage had become personal for Mr. (via ★natalie)Ī few days after the fact, but still a fascinating read on how the political sausage gets made. IIRC, Greg remarked that the phrase “damp pants” was hilarious right around the time I signed up for AIM but “damppants” was taken (?!!) so yeah. It had a lot of fractals on it.Īnd if you thought that wasn’t sufficiently embarrassing, my AIM name is still “damptrousers”. To date, I still have not DJ’d a single event, but the first thing I ever designed was a flyer for a friend’s rave party I signed it “cybergraphics by derbis” (all lowercase, naturally). It actually started as a self-imposed nickname IRL…these guys I knew in college DJ’d parties and they all had their DJ names and not wanting to be left out, I picked one for myself. Later, I spent hours negotiating with AOL’s log-in field, testing out various combinations of Nine Inch Nails lyrics until I found one that hadn’t already been snagged by an equally tortured soul (I was later forced to explain to a college admissions counselor why my e-mail address was first handle was “derbis”, which is how I thought “debris” was spelled until far later in my schooling than one might expect of a native English speaker. So how did I choose to define myself in this new world? I booted up my parents’ modem and launched head-first into online forums with an alias inspired by my cat’s name. Oxford gone schizo, y’all! (thx, Further clarification comes in the form of this official statement from Oxford University Press…they are definitely in favor of the Oxford comma.įrom Good, an article by Amanda Hess on The Eternal Shame of Your First Online Handle. So basically, Oxford is telling us to use the Oxford comma but isn’t going to use it internally. The Oxford Style Manual, meant for the general public and last published in 2003 by Oxford University Press, “a department of the University of Oxford”, recommends using the Oxford comma in all cases. It recommends against using the Oxford comma in most cases. Update: The document I linked to above is from a branding style guide for Oxford University. (via, who else?, (or should that be “whom else?”)) Oh, and in another nod to the old-school, I also use “dumb quotes” instead of the fancier and, I guess, technically more correct “smart quotes”. The style guide still advocates the use of the Oxford comma, but take that with a grain of salt I also misuse semicolons, use too many (often unnecessary) parentheses - not to mention m-dashes that are actually rendered as two n-dashes in old-school ASCII fashion - use too many commas, and place punctuation outside quotation marks, which many people find, in the words of Bill S. But when a comma would assist in the meaning of the sentence or helps to resolve ambiguity, it can be used - especially where one of the items in the list is already joined by ‘and’. As a general rule, do not use the serial/Oxford comma: so write ‘a, b and c’ not ‘a, b, and c’.
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