It looks like my laptop (a 3+ year old 15" 1Ghz G4 Powerbook) is in its final throes At least, the hard drive is. It keeps making clicking sounds and then crashing, much like a banshee’s shriek signaling imminent death.
I have a few options (which I’d appreciate your opinion on):
Replace the hard […]
Discomfort dis·com·fort /dɪsˈkʌmfərt/ [dis-kuhm-fert]
- noun
1. Finding out that your peanut butter and your bar of soap are made by the same company
While rummaging through the cupboard making breakfast today, I noticed a strange logo on the jar of peanut butter - a U comprised of lots of small graphics.
That’s right folks, Unilever, the people who […]
Mark Liberman finally put up the slides from his LSA talk, The Future of Linguistics.
I think they’re an interesting read, even (and perhaps especially to non-linguists. Liberman’s narrative is full of wonderful anecdotes, and explains why linguistics is in the state it’s in, and what can be done to change it.
Pop Psych is huge. […]
A tree made with qtree
So, I’ve been playing a lot with LaTeX the last few days (brought on, in part, but the LSA conference), and I’m really starting to like it.
You can see the results of my playing here (pdf).
Aside from being able to easily typeset really pretty trees, tables, and OT tableaux, a really […]
Well, I survived my first LSA conference! In fact, I’d go as far as to say I did more than survive - I even had a good time and learned a few things!
The Tensor organized a little linguablogger meetup, and even though I don’t fall into that category, housing JonW has certain benefits and […]
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I have this problem where when I see an actor in something, the next thing I see them in, I sometimes carry over that last role into the new thing I’m watching. (How was that for mangling English?)
For example, the first movie I ever saw with Edward Norton was Death to Smoochy. Anything […]