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Writing a short abstract is especially challenging. It is really easy to ramble on and on, but being concise is a different story.

Word limits and character counts are my present enemy. In what world does 1950 characters equal 400 words? A world in which most words are four-letters long. That isn't a very interesting place, is it?

Posted on May. 1st, 2002 at 11:51 pm | | Leave a comment | 7 comments |

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magikspork

Hi! I added you to my friends list because you sound pretty cool. :)
How did you get a permanent account? That's awesome.
Posted on May. 2nd, 2002 12:49 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

joshc

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i must say: great username.
Posted on May. 2nd, 2002 08:44 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

magikspork

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Thanks! I use it for everything now.. it's just odd and gets people's attention :D
Posted on May. 2nd, 2002 10:40 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

tanukisuit

short abstracts are evil. i try to summarize each paragraph into a sentence and then i summarize those sentences if it's too long.
Posted on May. 2nd, 2002 06:04 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

joshc

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at first, deleting was fun. then it started to get old.
Posted on May. 2nd, 2002 08:45 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

tanukisuit

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then it went extinct, leaving behind millions of typos. these typos were scattered all over the newspapers, television & movie scripts, text books, instruction manuals, e-books, etc. this eventually lead to world chaos, which killed off a bunch of people. the people who survived the chaos went back to the old ways of writing before technology was electronically advanced. most people also gained a greater appreciation of butterflys for some unknown reason.
Posted on May. 2nd, 2002 03:31 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

joshc

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no no. without deleting, the world was overwhelmed with content, which choked out all other forms of life -- leaving a rocky sphere overcome with pointless words and no butterflies.
Posted on May. 2nd, 2002 04:24 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply