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topics Ø Home Ø Bass Guitar Ø Books Ø Computers Ø Cooking Ø Dangermouse Ø Drew Ø Electronics Ø English Ø Fantasy Football Ø GTO Ø Humor Ø KFFL Ø Music Ø New House Ø Photography Ø Restaurants Ø Skepticism Ø Skiing Ø Work about Ø What’s new? Ø Site History Ø Disclaimer	english I was your archetypical left-brain in high school and college. I had an engineering professor who said, half tongue-in-cheek, that he “considered anyone outside of engineering to be a leech on society” and I half-way agreed. I was required to take two English courses to complete my Mechanical Engineering degree, and I placed out of one of the two. As much as I enjoyed reading, I despised the literature we read in high school and college. But I’m gradually coming around. I've been thinking about writing a book myself, well, I started about a year ago, but I've been thinking about it lately. Not a novel, but a technical how-to book. I'm not going to say what the topic is until I get closer to finishing a draft, but it's one of the interests listed on my website. The whole website, and my blog, are about writing, to see if I can produce (so far so good), to see if I can write (getting better all the time), to see if people are interested in what I have to say (yet to be determined). publications “Use of Close-Interval Survey Data in Applying ECDA and SCCDA” International Pipeline Conference 2006 “Interesting Times: Pipeline Integrity and Corrosion Control” June, 2005 Materials Performance An editorial describing advances in pipeline integrity standards. “El Paso’s Integrity Management Plan” February, 2004 Pipeline & Gas Journal An article detailing El Paso’s integrity management program. “Close-Interval Survey Techniques” March, 2005 ASM Handbook volume 13B “Using Ultra-high Pressure Water Jetting as a Tool for Pipeline Recoating” June, 2004 Journal of Protective Coatings and Linings An article describing innovative new technology in El Paso’s pipeline rehabilitation program. All of these are non-fiction articles, if you couldn’t tell. pet peeves Possessive its does not have an apostrophe. Looser means more loose, not someone who loses. The point is moot, not mute. Or moo, for you fans of Friends. “You’re” is a contraction for “you are”. “Your” is possessive. Figure out which one you mean. ALL CAPS MEANS YOU’RE YELLING!!! all lower case means you are too lazy to press the shift key Phone numbers in the US are punctuated like this: (713) 555-6432. Other countries punctuate them differently, but we do it like that. If you think it’s easier or cooler or whatever to use all dashes or periods (dots), move to another country. Look at this page for more pet peeves. Or this one. Or this or this or this. Or this. I guess my idea to have a grammatical pet peeves page is not an original one. links - acronyms Acronym Finder Glossary of Internet Terms IRC glossary The Ultimate Computer Acronyms Archive links - humor The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Country Sayings Foley'isms Shakespearean Insulter links – punctuation and grammar Category Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle Frequently Misused Words links - reference Bartleby.com Great Books Online -- Encyclopedia, Dictionary, The Collective Noun Page Dictionary Famous Quotes and Quotations at BrainyQuote FOLDOC - Computing Dictionary The Jargon File OEDILF The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form Oxford English Dictionary The definitive record of the Engli The Phobia List QuotationReference.com Quotations and Famous Quotes Dictiona Resource Shelf Roget's Thesaurus SlangSite.com - The Slang Dictionary Webster Dictionary Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia UrbanDictionary.com Define Your World The Visual Thesaurus, a Dictionary of the English Language links - translation AltaVista's Babel Fish Translation Service Translation Dictionary dict.cc Text-To-Speech (TTS) Demo links – words and words of the day A.Word.A.Day--Today's Word Cambridge Dictionaries Online - Cambridge University Press Dictionary.com-Word of the Day MSN Encarta - 10 Words You Simply Must Know Merriam-Webster Online Word of the Day NSA Word of the Day OneLook Word of the Day Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Day UrbanDictionary.com Word of the Day Word du Jour on The Princeton Review Word of the Day - The Quotations Page Word of the Day - Yahoo! Education Word of the Day, Article of the Day, Today's birthday, This WordCentral.Com - Daily Buzzword Wordsmith.Org World Wide Words worthless word for the day links – writing Dictionary.com Writing Resources The Language Guy THE SLOT Sharp Points Last updated 4/5/06

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