In a style guide I wrote for my staff last year, I advise everyone to just say “no” to ellipses unless they are used to separate thoughts in a quote. That is the primary use of ellipses, and I say that they shouldn’t be used to trail off at the end of a sentence.
But given […]

I hope everyone had a good Christmas or other holiday.
I got a new laptop, which I really, really needed. The keys on the old one were shiny and worn out from having endured over a million words from my mind and fat fingers. Plus, the battery was getting weak and the power cord no […]

I change my mind too much.
Most of this week was spent working on and thinking about the book I’m writing. A week ago, I literally had a fourth of my book written and damn-near finalized. At the rate I was going, and given the foreseen amount of free time I’d have during winter break, I […]

Quick, release all the Oscar movies!

I give I Am Legend a 3.5 out of 5 and The Mist a 4.5 out of 5.
Movies I want to see:
Enchanted
No Country for Old Men
National Treasure 2

I’ve reached a milestone in my Googling endeavors. In case you don’t know me, I am what’s called a “Google Whore.” I Google myself, usually with qualifiers like “Tiger Weekly” and “LSU,” just to see what kind of presence on the Internet I have.

Just typing in “Stephen Phillips” usually gives me results for other, […]

Up until about a year ago, I used to be jealous of students with rich parents. They live in their apartments for free, drive cars that are already paid for, they don’t have jobs and don’t really need to work, and they get to spend all of their time focusing on school. It’s the only […]

I want to do a study to determine the average amount of time it takes for an Internet fad to reach the mainstream. There are thousands upon thousands of popular videos on the Internet, linked by forums inhabited by geeks across the globe. But 90 percent of these videos, while popular, remain confined to forums […]

I was gone half the day and forgot to put up an away message on AIM. When I came back, I had IMs from two people who think I’m mad at them and two other IMs from people who wanted to let me know that the two people think I’m mad at them. Because I […]

Classes are over, bring on the exams.
So, what will I be doing during winter break after exams?
1.  Cleaning my apartment, first and foremost. Jenna and I (mostly I) haven’t had time to stay organized, and the place looks like a sty. It’s so bad that it’s inhibiting my ability to work, write or study.
2. Writing […]