Archive for the ‘Uselessness’ Category

Illiberality.

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

I am always amazed to see how many people who are self-described liberals and "tolerant" people are members of the Facebook group "I judge you when you use poor grammar", or any other incarnation of thereof. Language is often described as the last human characteristic that is an acceptable ...

Central Node E/Mo

Monday, January 29th, 2007

I intended to stay at the Marriot Library until 01:00. I decided to take a break from work at 22:00, so I ventured to the Middle East collection. I picked up a grammar of Mishnaic Hebrew. I got really depressed. I walked away. Pouting. Good Lord, I'm pitiful.

New design, other matters.

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

I have a lot of things I could write about, but I feel I have lost my ability to do so. I am in a rut, as it were. I don't know, I don't feel like doing much of anything lately. I do have a few things to mention. ...

On Gremlins.

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Note: given that I usually write about language and society, this post is a travesty. I was thinking about writing something very serious today, but I decided I was tired of being serious and I opted instead to talk about World of Warcraft. First, I have two complaints against Blizzard ...

I got three hours of sleep last night…

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

...I usually get at least four. I am trying to think if there is anything worth writing about. I am failing, I am afraid, because I all I can come up with is this report on what I have been doing: As always, I am continuing my language work. I ...

This Language is teh Dead.

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

I'm not exaggerating whenever I say I am a truly useless individual. I am also rather useless as a linguist, as far as I can tell. Case in point: I like dead languages and I mean to work with them. I highly doubt I will ever benefit society ...