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Large corpus Lolcat research
A question arose in comments to a previous (friends-locked) post. I'm going to paraphrase it as asking which of these is standard Lolcat:
a. I R SRS [NP1], THIS R SRS [NP2]
b. I IZ SRS [NP1], THIS IZ SRS [NP2]
My instinct was to go for a., and diatom was going for b. I realized this was empirically testable, because we have access to a massive ( Read more... ) -
NEFFA
I will be at NEFFA. April is usually a lousy month for me, for no really discernible reason, so I'm looking forward to it.
I usually only go to participatory things and skip all the performances, since I have no attention span. If you see me you should say hi. -
Still seeking two housemates
I am still looking for two housemates, so I'm reposting this. The only change is that my outgoing housemate had his fiance move in for a little while, so not finding anyone for September was fine since it gave her a place to stay. They will be moving once renovations are done at their new place (any time now, maybe, hopefully), but there is some ( Read more... ) -
Tech Squares Fall Class starts tomorrow (Tuesday the 10th)
The Tech Squares Fall Class starts tomorrow night at 8 PM in the MIT student center (see link if you actually need directions). If you are a club member who has been away for a while, it would be a good time to show up and at least pretend to keep your squares from breaking down. If you know actual current MIT students who can be convinced to try ( Read more... ) -
Seeking two housemates for September
It turns out that I am looking for two housemates come September (there is some flexibility about dates). I would like help finding people! Here's an unlocked post you can link to! I have a much more detailed version in email that I can send to anyone who's interested.
I'll post separately to Facebook -- please don't link my LJ to Facebook or ( Read more... ) -
False beliefs about restaurants
[from a sticky note -- I might post this elsewhere eventually, perhaps with edits]
I wanted to try to make a list of wrong assumptions about restaurants, and food in general, that I have seen people make. This is partly inspired by the famous list of falsehoods programmers believe about names. These mostly apply equally to manufacturers and ( Read more... ) -
Things I have learned
Specifically, this is "things I have learned about polyamory from a 'things I have learned about polyamory' article", which was a sort of review of Showtime's "Polyamory: Married and Dating". The article is in the form of a bulleted list, most of which are uninteresting. But these caught my eye:
- If you find yourself in any kind of group that ( Read more... ) -
Dead issues
This post is inspired by looking at an issue of Bay Windows, which is our local GLBT-something newspaper. I noticed that nearly all the articles were about problems that I expect to be resolved, for good, in the next few decades (same-sex marriage, other forms of equality under the law). Then I tried to think of similar political issues that have ( Read more... ) -
Quote you might have missed
From Ginsburg's opinion in the health care case (citations omitted ( Read more... )