Archive for September, 2007
LOL
(Excuse the massive blogging today. It’s a coping mechanism while I wait for the return of my PowerBook.)
From Linguist List:
The Mongo-Nkundu Language
(The code LOL was previously used for the language Loloda .
This change was made to bring language codes
into conformity with ISO-639-2)
emma :: Sep.28.2007 :: misc :: No Comments »
Click click click
The click of death sound here.
Also, I feel a little better knowing that there is a community of us out there.
Interwebs, I love you.
emma :: Sep.28.2007 :: misc :: No Comments »
Media monkeys, junkie junkies, plastic pantomime
“I know that your computer is more than a tool,
but other people can’t understand the difference between a PC and a pencil”
Somewhat tangentially:
emma :: Sep.28.2007 :: misc :: 1 Comment »
Recursion will kill you
I kind of doubt that what killed my PowerBook’s hard drive (and made it make that awful click of death) was the recursive audio/video feedback from turning the external iSight on the display.
Data is more or less preserved and backed up. I dropped it off for repair this morning (after spooning it last night), and it wasn’t expensive. The new drive will be bigger (100 gigs bigger). I’ll get it back on Monday.
I still feel a little torn.
To honor my dead hard drive and ensure its leisure in the afterlife, I’ll be burning Hell bank notes all weekend.
Digress after the Continue Reading »
emma :: Sep.28.2007 :: misc :: No Comments »
We used poisonous gasses
A little FoTC to round out your week. Clips after the flip. (So flip that shi-)
emma :: Sep.27.2007 :: pop-culture :: No Comments »
Y Combinator
Currently, on Paul Graham’s homepage:
(Arm credit to Mark Eret, apparently.)
(EDIT: Dave commented just a few days ago and left me a link to that picture’s Flickr page. Unfortunately, his comment didn’t make it through the spam filter. Fortunately, I manually looked through the comments marked as spam today while waiting for my students to show up to section and found his comment. Thanks, Dave!)
(Yet another EDIT: More science-inspired tats here.)
emma :: Sep.25.2007 :: logic, nerdiness :: No Comments »
Can has recursion
From Kyle:
emma :: Sep.24.2007 :: misc :: 2 Comments »
This one time, at M.I.T.
Simon and I went up to Boston to see a talk by Yoad Winter at M.I.T. yesterday. It was both of our first times there, and we both had a lot of fun. Luka was very kind to show us around the department and introduce us to everyone. The people we met were all very cool, smart and awesome. And, wow, their department definitely has a much nicer building than ours, along with better views and better furniture. There was a party after the talk, and it was nice to be socializing amongst a crowd who could joke along about variables and assignment functions and the PTQ.
Afterwards, we went to dinner in Chinatown (after getting lost about 500 different ways):
You gotta love Chinatown.
Oh, and one more anecdote: Luka pointed out Chomsky’s office to us from the lounge, and we got to glimpse the man at work. And his Bertrand Russell poster. I think it was this picture:
emma :: Sep.22.2007 :: linguistics :: 4 Comments »