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Hacked from beyond the virtual grave
So it appears that my account was hacked by some lovely Russian folks who decided to spam what's left of my LJ friends-list with some nonsense. I've changed my password and all should now be well. Sorry that my first post in three years was Cyrillic-alphabet spam, and sorry that my first real post in three years is an apology for the ( Read more... ) -
The Arthur Show (in text format)
Hi! This is Arthur! You may remember me from my Youtube channel. Watch my videos and subscribe!
I am writing this to tell you that I am going to Nana and Papa's soon (Stephen's mom and dad). Nana and Papa live in Cobourg. You can see it here.
They are taking me to Canada's Wonderland and the Cobourg Beach. We're also going to the cottage. We ( Read more... ) -
Phrontistery format changes
This is a little advance warning, to long-time readers of the Phrontistery, that I will no longer be featuring linguistic content from my Livejournal page on the homepage of the site. In other words, if you're reading this from the Phrontistery homepage, or if you use an RSS feed to read Phrontistery-related material, very soon, you won't be able ( Read more... ) -
Language and Societies abstracts, vol. 5 (2013)
The students in the 2013 edition of my Language and Societies course are extremely proud to present abstracts of their research papers which they have been working on for the past three months, published at our course blog of the same name. As has become an annual tradition, I am sharing this work with a broader audience. I invite you to take a few ( Read more... ) -
Tiny editor
(in case you're still reading ... you are, aren't you ( Read more... ) -
"Vote your conscience"
"Vote your conscience" - in Canada, it used to be practically the slogan for the NDP. And you hear it trotted out in American politics around election time as various minor parties aim to pick off a percent or two from the Democrats or Republicans in some state or another. The problem with the sentiment as expressed is that "vote your ( Read more... ) -
9/26 report, 2012 edition
Every year for the past several years I've been tracking the number of jobs listed on the American Anthropological Association job postings as of September 26. That date is somewhat arbitrary and I chose it for historical reasons, but a slightly different date wouldn't really change much when what I'm looking at is the overall trend, year-over-year ( Read more... ) -
A puzzle and an error
Today, Arthur and I finished his first 'real' (i.e. not toddler-oriented) jigsaw puzzle, a map of Canada. He got the puzzling bug while we were up visiting a friend's cottage this summer and they had a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle of Michigan and its tourist sights, which he worked on for quite a while, but really couldn't come close to finishing. ( Read more... ) -
Pausodonoptic
A correspondent to the Phrontistery yesterday posed a very interesting riddle:
I was in a pub the other day and saw a barometer on the wall. It was old and has the word pausodonoptic on it. I had never heard of this before and was curious so I did a bit of searching online. I didn't really find any definition of the word anywhere. I was ( Read more... ) -
Four by four
Heading to Montreal tomorrow - leaving Julia and Arthur behind this trip, with Grammie on hand to help out. Four hours of driving tomorrow to see my parents and especially my grandmother, who just moved into assisted living this week and is feeling pretty vulnerable, I think. Four hours of driving on Monday to get to Montreal, possibly to hang ( Read more... )