Trochaisms
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Twitterlog for the week of 2012-02-05
Hey! You! Hiring a clever, #seattle based, wordy, shockingly handsome, stats/computational linguist/software-geek/PhD? #callme # Also. Apropos of the previous tweet: layoffs suck. # peevologists: @yoisthisracist has your back today. http://t.co/AQExL3HH # At @dorkbotsea with @eldang @jkopel @cprosser and more. # Burners recapitulate Hobbes' Leviathan. Next up: "hard-core" (rising mercantile class) will impose a Magna Carta……
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Twitterlog for the week of 2012-02-05
Hey! You! Hiring a clever, #seattle based, wordy, shockingly handsome, stats/computational linguist/software-geek/PhD? #callme # Also. Apropos of the previous tweet: layoffs suck. # peevologists: @yoisthisracist has your back today. http://t.co/AQExL3HH # At @dorkbotsea with @eldang @jkopel @cprosser and more. # Burners recapitulate Hobbes' Leviathan. Next up: "hard-core" (rising mercantile class) will impose a Magna Carta……
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Twitterlog for the week of 2012-01-29
Delighted to discover @GRAMMARHULK reads @yoisthisracist: "HULK VERY RELIEVED! GOOD NEWS FOR ALL HULKS! http://t.co/iSh9Si4p" #worldscollide # Linguists & peevologists: @leighalexander's "I'M NOT SHOUTING" (has internet, peevers, 1st-person sociolinguistics): http://t.co/LooP2yPD # "also I want an orbital death ray." — @warrenellis on Mars, Gingrich and other wackjobs. http://t.co/Wqu7kD1K #
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Twitterlog for the week of 2012-01-22
“@marnanel: Today I read about "wicked problems": http://t.co/PU4PFFCA” [and now I did too. A lot of software is wicked.] # syck is available under the BSD license or the D&R license ("only after your own death, & we'll sue you anyway") https://t.co/P2teAY43 # "we should leave our doors unlocked all the time just to save…
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Twitterlog for the week of 2012-01-15
Peevologists assemble: RT @kirkhamilton: "[reader email] informing me that "Embiggen" is not, in fact, a word… did I maybe mean "Enlarge"?” # I just watched the Fringe "Brown Betty" noir/musical episode and it sounds like the game @jessnevins is (maybe) planning. #want #trippy #
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Twitterlog for the week of 2012-01-08
Useful thoughts on goal-setting for big, open-ended projects (software dev, science research, art!) http://t.co/O2LhbkeG (h/t @jessykate) # I just took Christmas lights down off the front of my house. In early January, still daylight. No injuries. I think I might be a grownup. # RT[anon] “Writing slides… so much quicker when I was happy with…
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Gnu ears eavesdropping
My mother sent me a link to this amazing doggerel (credited to G. Nolst Trenité) about the insane relationship between English spelling and pronunciation, which I quote from here (the link’s poem is much, much longer): Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I…
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-12-25
I been under the weather all weekend: out of energy after two hours awake; 2 hr nap earns only 45 min more. No other symptoms. # Today is "mansplaining sentiment analysis" day over at Corpora-L, where everybody who "wrote a REALLY BIG regex that one time" is an expert. # Ugh. Four hours out enjoying…
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Remembering Riddley Walker’s writing
Some of you may have heard — Russell Hoban died ten days back. You may know him through the Frances The Badger books (which I remember as a child). He’ll be remembered for Frances, of course, but I wanted to remember him for Riddley Walker, the novel, and also for Riddley Walker, the character. I…
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Twitterlog for the week of 2011-12-18
"The Rise of Developeronomics" is creepy as hell. Reads like "The Mount" or "To Serve Man" http://t.co/xi8hU0Br via @wordie #IAmNotATrophy # This short film introduced me to the AI Box experiment. Reminiscent of Haldeman's Forever Peace http://t.co/7gTPYA0Q (via J Noguchi) # En route to San Francisco, after the no-backscatter-please patdown. # They gave me the…