I have been thinking for quite a while about the ways in which different technologies lead people to communicate in different ways. Joel Spolsky points out that -- for example -- when a message board …

Poor Leonard. Segfault and his weblog and Scott's and Frances's and Susanna's weblogs are offline and he doesn't know exactly why. To boot, one must use Google's cache of his front page if one has …

Jeff might use information on Ishi, last of the Yahi, in his linguistics dissertation. He mentioned this today in Russian class, which amused me for two reasons. First, the anthropologist whom we most associate with …

Dan and other people in the OCF just found out about INTERCAL. Dan is laughing hysterically.

From Steve Hofstetter's Observational Humor: Most colleges have huge ever-expanding libraries with hundreds of thousands of books, so they need a complex system of numbers and maps to tell you exactly which shelf your book …

I used to have all sorts of theories about the Harry Potter books. I'd talk about how the weakness of the French and the evil of the Germans had to do with World War II, …

I really should go to sleep. Then again, I really should eat well-balanced meals every day and keep up on the reading for my classes and take care of other responsibilities as well. Me on …

From Jeana's journal: For anyone in the Berkeley area, today (being Friday) at 4 pm, Ursula K. Le Guin will be speaking in the Morrison Room of Doe Library. The "K" in her name stands …

You might think that "I want to find a book [so as] to read" might be literally translated, without the "so as": "Ya khochu naiyti knigu chitat'". But no. If you wish to say, in …

Directions. My Russian class is learning about how to give directions. We're learning this for, oh, the fourth time, so we can have some fun with it. "How do I get to the Marinskiy Theatre?" …