Posted in Uncategorized on October 6th, 2004 No Comments »
I just noticed that Geoff Pullum contributes frequently to Language Log. One of the first books I read after coming to the US was his The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax, which is fabulously entertaining. My lasting impression was a goggle-eyed “gee, Pullum must be smart, and stuff.” Until tonight. Pullum wonders where the phrase “this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 5th, 2004 No Comments »
Sent by soldiers who served, or are serving, to Michael Moore; published in today’s Guardian. I’m sure Moore was selective in his choices of letters to publish, but it’s still depressing. I know someone who had two members of the Reserve company he commands airlifted home due to injuries sustained during the first week of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 29th, 2004 No Comments »
I was talking to my coworker Jane today, who mentioned in passing that her car has over 480,000km on the clock. My first response was, “Hey! Just another 110K before you hit its second light second!” Drop the “light,” because it’s assumed, and you can quote your car’s odometer in seconds. This got me to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, software on September 9th, 2004 No Comments »
I decided to resurrect the blog this evening, after a mere 18 months of inactivity. I thought it would be a simple matter of fiddling with a few Apache configuration directives; as I should have expected, it turned into a heinous nightmare. I originally settled on Rael Dornfest’s blosxom blogging software. It’s conceptually lovely, being [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 14th, 2003 No Comments »
Shoot me now.
