Abe Dillon

@Angela Anuszewski periodic table

@Jane colons and semicolons generally go outside of quotes. It's a little known exception to a rule that was kinda dumb to begin with. I only put ? and ! inside closing quotes and only then if I'm quoting a question or exclaimation. If anyone gives me grief, I can just tell them I cut the quote off early. If you can do it with words, why not punctuation. If someone says, "no way." and I say, "she said 'no'". I didn't quote the whole sentence and pretending I did just leads to confusion.

@john ezra, You're the poet we need, but not the poet we deserve! LOL!

@Nora This is interesting. The graphite vs. diamond comparison got me thinking: Graphite is similarly made up of constituents. Sheets of graphene. The hardness of graphene is very difficult to characterize. It's anisotropic AFAIK. I wonder if the graphine sheets would be considered a different material to a geologist or if graphite is considered a mineral (?) as a whole.