Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
I've been listed as a coauthor on a paper my graduate advisor is presenting. I'm not sure whether to be thrilled or terrified. Basically, we're trying to figure out the exact phonemic inventory of Shoshoni. I will give updates once I actually know for certain what's going ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
I just finished upgrading my computer.
2 x GeForce 8800GT in SLI configuration
4gb DDR2 RAM
Yes.
Anyway, time for the Spiritual Successor to the Friday Fatwa. Once upon a time, this blog had a weekly feature where I would list whatever was irritating me over the last week and rant ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
I smell a long post. Do you smell it? Yes, it smells good.
I'm touching on two things today, both of them stories in today's issue of of the Deseret News. The first is a story about a movement to rename a few Utah landmarks so they no ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
I sat down to work on this post and had to decide whether to write about linguistics or LotRO. I written enough about LotRO the last little bit. I write about linguistics most the year. I am about to write about something usually reserved for blogs of ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
It turns out that unlike, say, World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online is a bitch and a half to theorycraft. An entire cottage industrycottage industry, where people research and cite eachother's research, has formed to figure out on our own what Turbine, Inc won't tell us: the numbers ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
I graduated college on Friday. It would be much more exciting if it were for good, but instead I'll be at the same school in the same department all over again. The only difference is that I'll be taken seriously, and therefore expected to produce better work. Also, I think ...
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