Volodja (vb_nz ) is back in Moscow, and he needs to use distilled water for the humidifier part of his new CPAP machine. In the U.S. you can buy distilled water in 1-gallon jugs in any supermarket. But Volodja has discovered (as he feared) that it's not so easy in Moscow. After 2 days he found an apteka near Planernaya where he can get distilled water ( ( Read more... )

My MGU speckurs, Formal Semantics and Pragmatics, will meet on Friday afternoons. Lecture: 16:20-17:50, Seminar 18:00-19:30. First class meeting: Friday, February 20. I don't know the room yet, but they will know in the Kafedra.
       The website is up (see my previous post), and I will keep it updated with the schedule of what topics we will talk ( Read more... )

I finally have the preliminary version of my course website up. It's here: http://people.umass.edu/partee/MGU_2009/ . It has taken me some time to get even this very preliminary form posted, because I had to learn a new web page editor. I did it with Dreamweaver, which I have on a 30-day free trial from Adobe. But Stephen Anderson is advising me ( ( Read more... )

FSIM 4 yesterday was a great success -- congratulations and thanks to the organizers, 
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Time out from working on the CD for my semantics course. I'm going to watch a sled dog race online. (Originally I was going to be in Alaska right now watching them live, but it didn't work out this year; I hope I'll be there at this time next year! My daughter-in-law says maybe it's just as well that it didn't work out this year -- she came down ( Read more... )