Trochaisms
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-08-14
The important things are unpacked. (@ Ercolini Park) http://picplz.com/7nTr # Home office in effect, courtesy of my wife's decoration sense (@ Ercolini Park) http://picplz.com/7Ktf # Ice cream truck! (@ Ercolini Park). # RT [protected]: "Anyone have a time machine? I think I have some cutting edge research ideas for circa 1998.” # MT “@Harkaway: Guardian…
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-08-07
Overestimated truck capacity (or underestimated stuff). Ran out of truck room. Crisis. Storage & last-minute triage to rescue. #moving # mexican dinner in Kelso Wa before last push to Seattle. Almost home! # Unpacking our house with @imtboo. We've landed! Need a new shopping trip this pm but the new house is awesome. I <3…
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Where’s Jeremy?
Content has been sparse here. I’ve been preoccupied with events out in the Big Room: I’ve taken on the role of Senior Computational Linguist at Quid, and my wife Dorothy and I are moving to Seattle. I’ll be returning to San Francisco four days a month to work on-site at Quid, and she’ll be returning…
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-07-31
"It's an ancient Woo-Woo tradition." — @imtboo, discussing grad school in San Francisco. #
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-07-24
It really is a green park. So nice to be back in Seattle! (@ Green Lake Park) http://picplz.com/k67Z #
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-07-17
SF as seen just after dusk (@ Twin Peaks) http://picplz.com/PvM7 # working hard all weekend to braindump out the old job before the new one gets started next week. #perlperlknit # Checked in first code at new job. Nothing blew up… Yet. #
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-07-10
"Man, the 90s rocked." –my wife, today in 2011. Now is freaking out about the loss of VHS & hosting 90s french rock on turntable.fm # do we know how to celebrate American Independence, or what? # hanging out in the #LOTNOFOJOTC room, listening to The Indelicates: America ♫♪ #turntablefm http://t.co/SDu19Ng #
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-07-03
Closed area: do not enter (gate to fairy country) (@ San Juan Bautista Mission) http://picplz.com/Bh1j # Lessons from Claude Shannon: highly predictable signals bear little infor… (@ Caltrain Northbound San Antonio Rd.) http://picplz.com/BxZT # Really excellent breakdown of a-scientific evo-psych babble about “purpose of reasoning” http://t.co/goyFXDo via @hangingnoodles # Happy Tau Day everybody! (6/28, at…
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-06-26
"Fixing" Oracle's paralysis by reboot: as destructive as "fixing" Peter Parker's marriage by Faustian bargain. #badwriting #badcomics # There are days (and data distributions) where I remember that Linguistics Drives you Crazy. Today is one of those days. #itsadogwhistle # Ugh, I think I keep meeting these Start-up Guys http://t.co/EAaojlG (via @imtboo) # Happy first…
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Plurals of the many-footed
I never hugged an octopus I wonder what they’d think of us? Would they think us all wusses not to embrace the octopuses? And even more with octopi We’re outnumbered limb (and eye) or is the word “octopodes“? I think I’d better stop with these. Apologies (or blame) to Kory Stamper and Stan Carey, whose…