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...hope it does, because you can do a lot of neat things with Journal notes. Searching is easy: jot down the words you're looking for, and Journal instantly offers a list of matching documents. Converting handwriting to text is surprisingly accurate, and when Journal doesn't recognize a word, it gives you drop-down menus of possible replacements. You can handwrite replies to e-mail or draw diagrams in instant messages. You can turn sentences into to-do items in Microsoft Outlook or dump them into Microsoft Word. No doubt this is all part of Gates' plan to take...
...have inspired characters for me, and lots of people I don’t personally know have also provided mannerisms and physical features. This is especially true of people in my sections. It’s hard for me to stay awake at times, so I just sort of jot down notes about the other students instead, the way they speak, the way they pick their noses...
...psychologists were similarly beginning to estimate just what the emotional cost might be. Around the country, normally well-adjusted people have found themselves jumping at shadows, avoiding crowds, giving in to little rituals (take the subway to work but the bus home in the evening) that provide not a jot of real protection but somehow offer them an irrational reassurance that if another plane comes screaming out of the sky, maybe it won't be coming for them or their loved ones...
...makes clear that imperial hubris was best left ashore: the success of these voyages depended on knowing his place between heaven and earth, on paying homage to the many gods worshiped by people along the way, starting with the constantly burning incense to Chinese sea goddess Tianfei. I jot down a note to myself: when the next typhoon approaches, light incense for Tianfei aboard my junk - and be friendly to any woman in a red dress...
...when it comes to the good, the virtuous, and the kind--like the women of New Haven County, or the Asians of Harvard--bite back those offensive words, and curb that naughty pen! For unless you are prepared to prove every jot and tittle of your case, by calling on reams of statistics and endless interviews that prove, conclusively, that many Asians self-segregate or many Southern Connecticut maidens break mirrors by looking in them--well, then you are guilty of employing a stereotype, and whatever gods there are will have no mercy on your soul...