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Kai von Fintel has a post on his blog (under Geek) about how he’s removed the Dock in his OS X setup.

Also, this is less necessary if you’re running OS 10.4 with Spotlight, but I’ve been using LaunchBar since I got my first PowerBook, and I love it.  I actually think it’s much nicer than Spotlight (and much more customizable), so I recommend it even if you have Tiger.

(LaunchBar is shareware, so if you try it out and are eager to jump aboard, let me know and I can give you a registration key.  Also, if you’re on a PC, LaunchBar-like applications are available to you, too.  I’d definitely suggest getting one for PC users.)

emma :: Feb.09.2007 :: misc, nerdiness :: 2 Comments »

I finally got the iSight mount kit (to replace the mounts that I’d gotten with my iSight but lost somehow in my first journey from LA to Providence) today. Before this, my iSight was either often sitting in a corner of my desk or mounted to my laserjet with some goofy double-sided mounting tape. So YAY! Now everyone can see me and my green room :-P

(I got my iSight when I got my first PowerBook, way back in the summer of 2004. Apparently Apple doesn’t sell iSights anymore! Which makes some sense since they come built into almost every computer they make now, but I imagine it sucks quite a bit if you had gotten one of the pre-iSight Apples and never got one because you figured Well, I don’t know anyone else with a webcam who I could videochat with and now can’t get an iSight.)

emma :: Feb.09.2007 :: misc, nerdiness :: No Comments »

Awesome awesome video of a woman singing with clicks.  (Mama Afrika, native speaker of Xhosa.)

Props galore to Aaron for posting this at his blog!

emma :: Feb.09.2007 :: misc, phonetics, linguistics :: No Comments »

I had a dream last night in which someone made a claim about “any other girl”…The rest of the dream involved me running around widening and restricting domains.

emma :: Feb.09.2007 :: misc, semantics, linguistics :: No Comments »

After a marathon phone conversation with Nathan tonight, I find myself more and more aware of language and thought and discourse and and and…Aaauuuugh *brain implodes*

I’m also hyper-aware of my use of that now.  Yay being a linguist and being surrounded/bombarded by data all the time.

I told Stefan about how much I’ve been thinking about the phonetics-phonology interface, and he asked if I’d had any dreams about it.  Upon my reply (negatory; dreaming about lambdas and S-expressions and donkeys and in German all seems to be reasonable, but I still can’t fathom the idea of dreaming about phonetics-phonology), he responded “Well, you’re not thinking about it enough, then”.  Touché.  Of course, I’ll bet that part of my lack of dreaming about that stems from my lack of sleep.

Also–it’s Friday?!  When the hell did that happen?  Nathan told me he was going to LA this weekend, and I thought today was Monday so when he said that he had to pack for his trip, I got totally confuzzled.

Lastly: this NP-S relative clause stuff is exciting.  Talking about it with Nath just made me even more excited about working on this.  I like talking about linguistics/philosophy; I feel like I get a better grip on these things when I talk/write about them, when the language makes (somewhat more) manifest all the ideas floating around in and out of my head.  I get this Zen-like feeling of engagement and understanding when talking about semantics that I don’t quite have access to outside of talking to someone.

emma :: Feb.09.2007 :: misc, semantics, philosophy, linguistics :: 2 Comments »