Archive for December, 2008
08-12-23
Tags: Orlando, FL. Dec 23, 2008.
Jessie woke up this morning, and said she dreamed of the fudge she saw last night at a candy store in Downtown Disney:
"It was only $1.30, and it was soooo yummy!" she said.
Ethan cried: "that’s unfair!"
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08-12-21
Tags:Linguistics psy145 Teaching Back in Sept this year BBC has a short story with professor John Wells on Should we relax English spelling rules?
Wells recalled times when he grew up, when ’show’ could be spelled as ’show’ or ’shew’. His proposal was not to standardize English spelling on a new platform, but to allow more […]
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08-12-21
Tags:Research Just got an email from a top journal in my field, asking me to review a very interesting manuscript, to which I replied:
Hmm… this is really tempting, but I don’t think it’s appropriate to review my own submission
Happy Holidays!
— gary
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08-12-16
Tags: A conversation with Ethan (5.5yr) while he was doing his homework.
Why are you so smart?
My brain.
Why is your brain smart?
Because it has a lot of ideas.
Where do the […]
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08-12-05
Tags:Computing Watch List No, Apple still blocks access to its default calendar program on iPhone/iPodTouch, and going through iTunes or MobileMe involves Outlook (on the Windows side), which I strongly detest and have uninstalled even though we have a site license for it. I was searching for an over-the-air solution, and someone has come up […]
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08-12-03
Tags:Computing My students were abhored to find me using Google Chrome one day in class. Yep, I am one of the 1% who still do, because it’s much faster to start than Firefox and uses less memory over time. But I miss all the extensions I have on FF. One must have is Adblocker.
There is no […]
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