February 2009
Man's death brings review of heat shutoff policy
filigree:
BAY CITY, Mich. — When neighbors went inside Marvin Schur’s house, the windows were frosted over, icicles hung from a faucet and the 93-year-old World War II veteran lay dead on the bedroom floor in a winter jacket over four layers of clothing.
He froze to death — slowly and painfully, authorities said — days after the electric company installed a power-limiting device because of more...
FUCK YOU !!!!!!
gifparty:
Hooty!
gifparty:
Watchhooings:
tj: burt used to run pequod’s—he created the crust.
Wooo, I’ve had food one degree removed from something on No Reservations! (Thanks Laura!)
Wikipedia: Observable universe →
War For The White House Blog: Posts by Pip... →
Oi! The Americans ‘ave Picked A President!
Well bless my ‘eart and call me Cromwell! The yank election ‘as come to an end at last. Isn’t it wonderful? A new leader across the pond. And without even cutting off the ‘ead of the old president! Blimey, those Americans sure know ‘ow to pick a ruler, don’t they? Did it with class they did. I only wish I knew...
Point/Counterpoint: "The Israeli Conflict Is Far... →
Play Number Munchers Online! →
bg5000:
twothirty:
This incredible game from elementary school can now be played here! Thanks to betterthancupcakes for reminding me that I loved this game.
Sweet, so if i play this for the rest of the day is the afternoon really wasted?
Per my previous post…
January 2009
There’s some kind of pro-life demonstration going on outside of the library. I saw a very large sign with the word “life” and a giant white baby on it. I’m pretty sure there’s a ribbon on the life-baby.
Qlam →
gospelofmoll:
Qlam is hard to explain. You’re presented with a grid of strings and springs that you can manipulate. You can adjust the spring and damping constants. You can even cut and reattach strings. It’s fairly interesting in spite of my dull description.
I tried to attach every yellow node to every other node (both yellow and blue) and then cut all the connections between to directly...
Birmingham bans apostrophes from road signs →
aatw:
nostrich:
Good lord.
Outrageous.
Fear not, for the Apostrophe Protection Society is on the case:
John Richards, the founder and chairman of the Apostrophe Protection Society, said: “It seems retrograde, dumbing down really.”
gifparty:
CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE ACK!
OMFG
gifparty:
Having a Home Alone night
marykgo:
A lovely cheese pizza, just for me.
Mary, go easy on the Pepsi!
“Merely by existing, all physical systems register information. And by evolving...”
– Computational capacity of the universe
“Nakajima confessed to frequently searching the Internet to satisfy her...”
– Asian Teen Has Sweaty Middle-Aged-Man Fetish (via raptoravatar, The Onion)
ATTN jmahr2
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Wikipedia: Large numbers →
bait and switch
tristn: are you looking forward to being done with classes tomorrow?
marykgo is typing...
tristn: will you marry me
marykgo: hey!
marykgo: you almost got me there!
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UC Berkeley opens StarCraft class →
up-schist-creek:
Students line up by the tens to take course on game that was released when they were 7.
Said a TA to his students: “I’m in ur class, killing ur doodz.”
Wikipedia: List of forms of word play →
“The term Cheshirisation, coined by Matisoff, refers to the Cheshire Cat, a...”
– James Matisoff - Wikipedia
Thoughts on Linguistic Field Methods, Week 2
Since my linguistics posts are my best-received posts, here’s a lot of linguistics (which helpful Wikipedia links).
It’s my final semester as a linguistics undergrad, which means I get to take Field Methods, the capstone course for the major. Basically, we in the course spend the semester working a speaker of a language about which we know nothing. In fact, our professor had us sign...
Wikipedia: Weasel words →
iamdanw:
You’re allowed to slap me if you catch me using weasel words.
(a) This is the principle my English teachers meant to promote when they taught us about the passive voice (a general history of the education of writing style: a principle -> a rule of thumb -> “I will dock you points if you break this rule”).
(b) If you had tumblr search, I would be searching for examples...
syntactic ambiguity
ragbag:
a political adversary once called former governor kirk of florida a “fat ladies’ man.” to which the governor retorted, “I like thin ladies too.”
Syntactic ambiguity in the wild makes me :D.
Share a Tumblr
shutupinternet:
I’ve wanted to do this for a few weeks now because Tumblr’s userbase is growing and I’m getting bored reading the same old things (I love the sites that I read but I’m eager for some new digs).
Reblog with a link to your current favorite Tumblelog for me, would ya.
Thanks for sharing a tumblr yourself—oh wait.
Anywho, here are some tumblrs I’ve started following...