Friday January 06, 2006; part of:
Blather
Is it just me, or are the children of decrepit parents growing younger?
Posted by andrewb at January 06, 2006 10:17 AM
I am not sure which is more worrying: children of decrepit parents growing younger, or children of decrepit parents growing older.....
You can't be decrepit until you are worrying about the GRANDchildren growing younger...
If you can have children, are you decrepit?
Once you've had them, decrepitude is forced on you.
Textile formatting works here. Double hyphens are automatically converted to en dashes, quotes are automatically smartened. You can put dashes and asterisks around text to make
italics bold and other silly effects easily.
- Text wrapped in Asterisks which * will be bold. The asterisks must touch each end of the bold text. There must a space before the first and after the last.
- Text wrapped in underscores - _ - will be italicised. The underscores must touch each end of the italics. There must a space before the first and after the last.
- Paragraphs starting bq. will be block quoted. There must be no space before the "b" and one space after the full stop.
- A hyperlink is made by wrapping the link text in double quotes, followed immediately by a colon, then the URL. If there is a question mark in the URL, wrap the whole lot in square brackets.
- I use two classes to mark up text that deserves it. sane text looks like this. loony text looks like that. The syntax for those is %(sane)[space] sane text %; loony is left as an exercise to the reader.
