laura came up with these questions (at least, i think she came up with them, but she may well have stolen them from somewhere else), and i like them okay so i'm going to play along ( Read more... )

please, please, please watch (at least the second half of) the video linked here. don't bother reading the transcript first, just watch it.

i have absolutely nothing else to say.

for the record, i decided to play the survey before i even reached the end of mitchie's telling me i had to. so here it is:

1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4.
"respectively, with behavior and grammar. Parole is verbal activity: speaking, writ-"
this is in my brand new book The Linguistics Wars by Randy Allen ( Read more... )

we're so moving to Spain.

so i started library school on monday, and it's good stuff. despite anxiety attacks right and left, i like all my professors and the other students seem very nice and friendly (although, once in a while, mildly retarded). my course titles sound about as interesting as stern's though ( Read more... )

i had the first legitimate bagel in at least a year this afternoon. it was awesome ( Read more... )

well, christmas has come and gone, and since i never do photo posts anymore i thought this would be an appropriate time for one. since, you know, someone actually took pictures of it.

( enjoy...if possible )

i have another website to plug today, this one thanks to alison (so some of you may have already seen it). this time it's pandora, which is this interactive radio station thing. but it's so much cooler and more intensive than other music recommendation systems, it identifies sort of the smallest musical units of every song and decides what ( Read more... )

also, i wanted to let all my studenty friends (especially my grad studenty friends) know about a super awesome website i found last week. CiteULike, though it has a retarded name, is a very, very cool thing. basically, whenever you're reading journal articles online, you use a little bookmarklet which saves the article to your own personal ( Read more... )

i'm back in norwalk as of tonight, ach. but i saw alison already, woohoo! we went through our usual night-at-her-place routine of drinking, smoking, complaining and staying up too late. we changed it up a little by listening to music for a while. highly unusual. i was digging it though, al, it was good stuff ( Read more... )