A thorough code-rejiggering [this is hyperbole] fixed the little javascript issue I had earlier today. All paragraph tags and line breaks are restored!
So, as I play catch up, this here’s an image of a shovel that I lifted from The New York Botanical Garden.
Or is it a spade?
What’s the difference? Do you know? Why or why not?
It’s time for a little agrarian etymology.
The rules:
1. No cheating. Googling stinks.
2. Personal vignettes about shovels and spades are encouraged.
3. Insinuations and/or protests that “calling a spade a spade” is inherently a racist phrase won’t be tolerated. It simply isn’t true. And, as Mr. Obama might say, it’s a “distraction” from a substantive discussion about digging tools.
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Is this a lesson to show me how I use Google as a substitute for my own memory?
Because it worked.
Mr. Nelson,
You have violated Rule #1. That’s a 50 DKP minus.
It’s an interesting point, though - Google as a reinforcer. I certainly use it a ton for that purpose. It comes up with the edu-tech crowd frequently. Some seem to see it as we might [reinforcement] while some think that if you can Google it, there’s no point in spending time knowing or memorizing it.
Unfortunately, access to Google is limited on first dates, at dinner parties, and in most all other face-to-face interactions.
> Insinuations and/or protests that “calling a spade a spade�? is inherently a racist phrase won’t be tolerated. It simply isn’t true.
And so you are running this post… why?
Stephen,
I’m running the post because I think the difference between a shovel and a spade is an interesting tidbit. I didn’t claim that the knowledge would save the world.
And, my first instinct - a post about walking around Montreal reading Heidegger - was recently covered.
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