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Category Archives: technology
Install Pragmatics Module
I think I just realized another reason why I don’t like Facebook — it doesn’t work so well with my pragmatics module. I can’t tell what my speech acts actually mean there, and I don’t know how failure to “friend” everyone I know, or lack of response to “notes” or “wall” or whatever that shit [...]
New Host
I’ve moved to a new host, after over ten years of increasingly sucky customer service at the old host. My new hosting company is great, and I’m just getting set up over here. Hopefully I’ll get around to migrating all my old content soon.
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Badenov wikipedia
I’m giving a talk tomorrow (info/abstract below the fold) which required me to find an image of Boris Badenov (don’t ask — it’s to illustrate an example slide). I went to his wikipedia entry, and found, to my delight, that someone has taken the time to create a long list of disguises that Boris has [...]
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modern sabotage
In a meeting today of Linguistics 101 teachers at Rutgers we were discussing plagiarism. A colleague made a hilarious suggestion: give students a homework question about topic x, then go to the wikipedia article on topic x and alter it to be incorrect. Laugh at the results. I expanded on the theme, positing that one [...]
snowplane
It hasn’t snowed yet in NYC and I’ve been having a hard time getting in the holiday mood. However this morning I discovered snowplane, and now that it’s snowing on my desktop I’m in a much better state of mind.
NaBloPoMo
I successfully avoided NaBloPoMo, partly because I don’t really like the word that the “Blo” part comes from. I had plans at one point to make up shirts reading: “The Anti-Neologism League” but it never happened. I still appreciate the sentiment, however.
UPS
Apparently when a package gets delivered from California to Manhattan, it gets to Newark (close to Manhattan), then goes to Philadelphia (south, further from Manhattan), and then back north toward New York City. This is perhaps because they take “3 Day Select” delivery very seriously — if it were delivered on Tuesday, the morning it [...]
Ominous…
It’s a good thing that I have so much work to do and have to stay indoors because my desktop weather widget is looking sort of Harry Potter/scary:
outdoor wireless in Maine
At the Northeast Harbor Library, there’s free wireless access, which is nice considering we can’t get DSL or a cable modem in Somesville at ANY PRICE. The funny thing, though, is that even though the library closes at 5 pm, they leave the wireless on and it’s available outside for about 50 feet around the [...]
Culinary automata