I love North Carolina. I am a North Carolinian by choice, not by birth. I chose North Carolina because of its Quaker values of faith, tolerance, and freedom. North Carolina and the people of North Carolina have been very, very good to me and my family.
We have achieved amazing business…
Got my REAL BOOK in today! Hardcover, jacket, and everything! Pre-order it here pleeeease! Drops up in yo Kindle, Nook, bookstore or home February 14th! AAAAAK! (I will hump you if you reblog this.)
I would very much like my humping now.
It’s Not Gender Warfare… It’s Math.
(A shorter version of this piece appears in today’s Washington Post. Photo of Google executive and engineer Marissa Mayer via. Headline via.)
Let’s say I was designing a new piece of software to make my life as a writer a little easier. First, I’d program it count how many characters I’d typed out and in what amount of time, in order to document my productivity on any given day. Then I’d ask it to compare words, phrases, sentences and entire paragraphs from one draft to the next, in order to calculate how much of what I’d written had changed…or stayed the same.
