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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Seven Random Things
Cynematic tagged me with the seven random/weird things idea. I only know one person who is “up-to-speed” enough on the technology for me to even consider tagging her, however she tagged me in the past and I lamed out (although to my credit, I was in Sri Lanka at the time), so I’m going to [...]
One of his creatures
So cringe-worthy that even seeing the link on the main page of the Sunday Magazine made me cringe: Deborah Solomon “interviews”* Umberto Eco. One of my favorite lines: I am wondering if you read Dan Brown’s “Da Vinci Code,” which some critics see as the pop version of your “Name of the Rose.” I was [...]
The part I find amazing
Apparently many NYU students would be willing to sell their votes. Half of the freshman polled in a recent NYU study would sell their right to vote (forever) for one million dollars. Here’s a quote from the article: “The part that I find amazing is that so many folks think one vote can make a [...]
Great NYC Sunday
Brunch at Enid’s (that Williamsburg/Greenpoint border joint) then on to P.S.1 where the art was (currently) kinda crappy (except for the Fassbinder installation) but the site, as usual, was oh so great.
4 in 100,000
Out of every 100,000 people in the U.S., four have the surname Schweitzer. It’s the 3,293rd most popular surname in the country. Check it out: how does your surname rank?
I really have nothing else to say.
No wait, that’s not entirely true. What I do have to say is that I was shocked by the number of Prada stores in regional cities of China that I visited this summer. Anyway, Iron Women and Foxy Ladies.
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Port Authority recognizes conservation
The Port Authority is going to raise the PATH fare and also the Holland Tunnel charge — but in a surprising turn of events, they’re giving a break to those who drive low-emission vehicles! This is great news.
Is the wagon that is red broken?
I’ve been spending a lot of time recently using perl on data from the CHILDES database. The data is a set of child-directed sentences, a lot of “What a nice doggie!” and “Raisin! Look, a raisin!” and it’s all real data, representative of the kind of sentences children hear during their language acquisition process. The [...]
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Newspaper may omit verb
Apparently all they need is the modal at the New York Times. As of 9:25 pm today: Or perhaps ‘gun-control’ is one of those nouns that’s slipped the surly bonds of its lexical category and become a verb? UPDATE: It turns out that the missing verb was … (drumroll) … ‘take’. In this context I [...]
“It’s true,” either Britney’s pregnant again or I suck at daily posting.