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Grumpy academic is grumpy
I love that the European Court of Human Rights makes webcasts of hearings available in both English and French. That's good public relations policy. I do, however, wish that they would get interpreters who matched the gender of the speaker. Watching a grand old male judge speak in a very clearly young female voice is... confusing ( Read more... ) -
The OED is letting me down!
What is the plural of fetus? Feti? Fetii? Fetuses? Or is fetus actually plural in itself?
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Mr. Assange: I don't believe you. I think you're just trying to escape a rightful conviction.
In much better news, I have the first draft of next week's talk ready. W00t!
And Husbands Season 2 has started! As someone who backed the Kickstarter campaign, I'm happy to see it looking good and being funny so far. -
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Remember those excel sheets from the last post? I have now managed to turn them into three pages of facts and solid argumentation. Argumentation which I actually feel comfortable presenting next week ( Read more... ) -
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Half a year ago, I bought a Kindle. I bought it mostly because it was a cool gadget that I had wanted to get my hands on for a while, but also because I'm getting older and my eyes are protesting reading stuff on the computer monitor all day. I thought the Kindle would be a good alternative, but it turned out that academic journal articles are ( Read more... ) -
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Oh god. I've spent a little over a week working out a list of case-law that's actually, you know, relevant to what I want to do. Blrrrgh. Lists upon lists of cases that I now have presorted into three categories: Relevant (90 cases), Possibly Relevant (62 cases), Not Relevant (293 cases). In other words, I have read 445 cases. Superficially, but ( Read more... ) -
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Things I have watched this week:- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy aka MOST CONFUSING MOVIE EVER! I had to look up the summary on wikipedia to figure out what was going on. I feel like the massive praise heaped on the movie when it came out was the most blatant case of Emperor's New Clothes that I've ever seen. The acting and cinematography was good, ( Read more... )
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Constant Vigilance!
Clearly, the way out of a writer's block goes through Harry Potter quotes.
Equally clearly, what good is a thesis if it's not introduced by a Harry Potter quote?
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Every kid should be exposed to farting puppets
A really entertaining article on why Danish children's television freaking rocks: Farting Puppets.
Also, today should be the day where I get actual, proper internet at home, along with a working laptop. This should, hopefully, translate into me being more of a presence instead of just lurking. Fingers crossed! -
Best new thing in the world today!
Um, hi. I'm still around! And slowly starting to feel like I might actually be resurfacing for real, yay!
So, anyway, have some fluff, c/o Rachel Maddow:
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