All my tweets ever
Follow me on Twitter: @fintelkai
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2012-05-14 Why ponder life’s complexities when even Kieran Healey has summer vertigo? http://t.co/djiuAVVg
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2012-05-14 Why ponder life’s complexities when you’ve run 6 miles in the hills before lunch?
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2012-05-14 Why ponder life’s complexities when there are dotfiles to fiddle with?
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2012-05-14 Why ponder life’s complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?
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2012-05-12 @consequently Congrats. Better than tenure.
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2012-05-09 RT @thisisiceland: Many humans are talking about same-sex marriage. It is not only legal on me, but my people’s prime minister is a woma …
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2012-05-09 RT @AbbyWambach: LGTBQ or not, president Obama just took a stand. Let’s hope in 50 years people will be shocked this was even an issue. …
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2012-05-09 I know that customer service rep is a sucky job, but do they need to suck at the job, too? #TiVo in this case.
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2012-05-09 RT @BarackObama: President Obama announces his support for same-sex marriage: http://t.co/XjdJmqkK
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2012-05-09 Nature covers Uli Sauerland’s empirical challenge to Everett on Pirahã attitudes: http://t.co/V8TpuC2n.
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2012-05-07 @keith_wilson Actually, the iCloud version had a higher bit rate than AMZN’s mp3s. But I probably couldn’t hear the difference at my age.
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2012-05-07 Weird dance: buying a $8.99 album on Amazon, $1 less than iTunes, then upgrading it for free via iCloud. Couldn’t AMZN sell better quality?
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2012-05-07 RT @themitcho: Next weekend at MIT: “Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Scalar Implicatures” http://t.co/PsB7YjEB
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2012-05-06 RT @mbeisen: since 9/1/2011, the patriots have nine home victories and the red sox eight
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2012-05-05 In London. After checking in at my hotel looking forward to a long day of strolling around followed by a nice Indian dinner.
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2012-05-05 RT @RBReich: Rom says unemp shld be 4%. I was Sec of Lab last time it was 4%. We got there by raising taxes on rich and investing in ed …
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2012-05-04 About time for England to be recognized as 2nd/3rd tier, like Switzerland and Finland. No chance to compete with Spain, Germany, Holland.
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2012-05-04 “Hodgson has the pedigree to succeed as England boss, having managed the likes of Switzerland, Finland and UAE”. http://t.co/xPOjNIkE
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2012-05-03 On bus from Heathrow to Oxford. Onboard wifi not much better than the one on the Boston commuter rail, but hey, free internet.
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2012-05-03 RT @pgammo: Boston’s $78+M on the DL is more than the payroll of 20% of MLB teams
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2012-04-27 Guardiola: “You can only recover by resting and getting away from everything. It would have been a bad idea to continue.”
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2012-04-27 RT @JenChang88: One wonders if that Vilanova appointment has been made to keep the seat warm for a possible Guardiola return after his s …
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2012-04-27 Wonderful piece about Ruth Barcan Marcus: http://t.co/bXcmHFnN
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2012-04-26 Maybe Guardiola should be granted a one year sabbatical and then return refreshed. Why not?
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2012-04-26 I guess I’m just an old geezer, but this is pretty good: http://t.co/KELhtIEw
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2012-04-26 @RobHarris @AlexiLalas Yellow cards should reset after the semis (as in WC) but changing the rules mid-tournament is not right. Next year.
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2012-04-26 RT @RobHarris: International players’ union has asked UEFA to allow 6 banned Bayern & Chelsea players to be allowed to play Chps Lge final
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2012-04-25 I feel sorry for “intellectuals” who cannot feel the joy and beauty of sports. I don’t blame them, they just weren’t brought up right.
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2012-04-25 You don’t want to end up with penalty kicks against a German team.
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2012-04-25 RT @cvanurk: It’s hard to capture how much I enjoy seeing Cristiano Ronaldo miss a penalty.
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2012-04-25 Two of the best games ever in two days. How about that?
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2012-04-25 Pepe just died?
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2012-04-25 10 German national teamers in this game: Neuer, Lahm, Badstuber, Boateng, Schweinsteiger, Khedira, Özil, Müller (not yet), Kroos, Gomez.
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2012-04-25 UCL yellow cards should reset after semis like they do now in the world cup.
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2012-04-25 @natecha If he’s wearing an Özil Germany shirt he’s probably pro-München.
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2012-04-25 @natecha Why? Özil is German.
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2012-04-25 Without doubt: the UCL has the highest level of play of any league or tournament, incl. World Cup and Euro.
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2012-04-25 This could be a high scoring game.
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2012-04-25 RT @pgammo: $67.1M. Red Sox Disabled List payroll $63.6M. Rays Opening Day payroll
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2012-04-25 News from the open access revolution: http://t.co/Z72EztAP
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2012-04-24 @AndersJSchoubye Agreed. They did not have the right lineup.
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2012-04-24 That’s why they play the game.
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2012-04-24 Wow.
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2012-04-24 Pep is ready to go in there himself.
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2012-04-24 RT @TiffanyWeimer: “We don’t need a goal, who should we put in? Torres!”
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2012-04-24 Lucky Lampard
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2012-04-24 Sauerland on embedding, Too bad I’ll be out of town for this one. http://t.co/RiDr80fc
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2012-04-21 @AndersJSchoubye Congrats. Rematch in Munich, perhaps.
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2012-04-21 Checked in @ Wrigley Field for the #cubs vs #reds game w/ http://t.co/ORSU5knz http://t.co/SG21j3qj
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2012-04-21 Wrigley Field, pretty good seats in the cold spring sun. http://t.co/EOHwFpAv
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2012-04-21 The holy grail of MIT hacks, finally realized: http://t.co/WvX6SWfn.
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2012-04-19 Starting the first day of CLS with breakfast at Intelligentsia. It will end with a fabulous dinner with my daughter at Topolobampo.
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2012-04-18 RT @GrantWahl: Xavi to me recently: “A lot of times we’ll face six defenders and four midfielders, and it becomes difficult.”
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2012-04-18 @natecha @AndersJSchoubye 79% possession. 24 shots (vs 4). Playing against 10 defenders, not so easy. Still, Barça v Munich is my guess.
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2012-04-18 @schar indeed, that’s what we do.
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2012-04-18 @charlietanksley just downloaded it.
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2012-04-18 The big crunch: https://t.co/QVmQcnUN
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2012-04-18 @schar “The set of paths is a set of urelements (locations are urelements), the Cartesian product of which is void.”
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2012-04-18 @schar We can beat that: “I have proven mathematically the disappearance of space in the Big Bang.”
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2012-04-02 RT @danielpunkass: My friend @manton has HUGE news for Tweet Marker today, offering customers an affordable way to support the service: …
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2012-04-02 Dealing with email backlog. But ManU and Kentucky games to look forward to.
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2012-04-02 Back from Internet sabbath. What did I miss?
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2012-03-22 @AndersJSchoubye GoodReader has been retina-ed. Looks fine now.
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2012-03-21 @kevinklement FWIW, the text displays fine in all its glory on my iMac (in Twitter app, Twitterific, and Google Chrome).
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2012-03-21 @kevinklement @charlietanksley I use my real computer(s) for real work, not Twitter.
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2012-03-21 @kevinklement @charlietanksley I thought you wanted a yes/no answer, not an excuse to insult users of non-hand cranked devices.
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2012-03-21 @charlietanksley @kevinklement same here. Tweetbot in iPhone and iPad.
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2012-03-18 @keith_wilson @AndersJSchoubye I tried Papers on OS X, never saw a role for it in my workflow. PDF Expert is just fine for what I need.
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2012-03-18 @AndersJSchoubye It sure does. I regularly sync it with Dropbox. Was buggy at first, now works fine.
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2012-03-18 @AndersJSchoubye PDF Expert hasn’t even been updated, maybe it (and Dropbox) call the built-in reader. PDF Expert has been my top choice.
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2012-03-18 @AndersJSchoubye Yes, both GoodReader and iAnnotate look horrible. The built-in viewer in Safari, Dropbox & PDF Expert look great.
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2012-03-17 @kvaschik f you Kennedy. Well, I actually just had an awesome 7 course tasting dinner with San. So I’m all set. See you in a few weeks.
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2012-03-16 Kindle app on Retina iPad = I’ll never want to read a printed book again.
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2012-03-16 Finally.
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2012-03-16 “Out for delivery” since 5:36am … that’s a lot of donut breaks, dear UPS driver.
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2012-03-16 RT @jeff148apps: At this rate I think there will be more iPad retina updated apps on day one than there are tablet Android apps after a …
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2012-03-16 “@siegel: “On FedEx vehicle for delivery” is no longer granular enough.” Word. I want real time GPS coordinates and ETA.
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2012-03-16 @bywordapp I wonder whether it was the document count not the actual Dropbox notes that was off. I’m getting a new iPad today, we’ll see.
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2012-03-16 @bywordapp After dozens of cycles of hard quitting and a good night’s sleep, the iPad version now says it has all 515 notes from Dropbox.
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2012-03-16 RT @GrantWahl: Champions League draw gives possibility of Real Madrid-Barcelona final. 2 favorites have never met in CL final before.
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2012-03-15 @bywordapp You don’t want me to leave a review right now while it keeps not downloading all my notes from Dropbox (only 330 of 515).
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2012-03-15 @kvaschik awesome. I love doing that.
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2012-03-13 RT @pmphlt: Never told my story about negotiating with philosophy journal (mentioned at #sparc2012 panel). The full story: http://t.co/J …
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2012-03-13 @apcarballo Paper (finally) being written as we speak.
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2012-03-12 @ecormany Those quotes both came from Thony’s pen. But I’ll accept the kudos. We had fun writing that paper.
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2012-03-11 @apcarballo yeah, linguistics colloq at UMass. I’ll be back April 10 to help out in Joe Moore’s seminar.
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2012-03-11 @apcarballo what are you doing in Amherst? I was just there a couple of days ago.
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2012-03-10 #MITBasketball Engineers advance to NCAA Div 3 Final Four with a 69-54 win over Franklin & Marshall.
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2012-03-10 Instapaper vs. competitors. I’ve instapapered the article. http://t.co/1xwPuPIO
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2012-03-10 RT @kjhealy: There is no word for “Collateralized Debt Obligation” in Dothraki. Also drawing a blank on “HOA Fees”, “2nd Day Air”, and ” …
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2012-03-09 RT @georgevecsey: Why the world loves soccer. Four reminders in one week. http://t.co/8i8zVTWP via @weebly
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2012-03-09 @themitcho I won’t be at GLOW. In fact, none of the three of us can get the logistics to work out, so we’re not giving the paper. :(
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2012-03-09 In Amherst to give a colloquium about the meaning of imperatives. First items on the to do list: finish the slides, tea at Amherst Coffee.
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2012-03-09 Last Location: Arrived - Chengdu, China, Friday, 03/09/2012 Scheduled Delivery: Friday, 03/16/2012, By End of Day
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2012-03-08 @paulhagstrom When my new car gets old, it’s not my new car anymore. And when I get the next one, *that* becomes my new car. No mystery.
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2012-03-07 RT @GrantWahl: The gap in quality between Messi and any other soccer player on the planet is mind-boggling.
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2012-03-07 This season: seven hat tricks for Barça, one for Argentina. That little guy is pretty good.
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2012-03-07 Got it. Now, 9 days of waiting.
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2012-03-07 RT @LingSocAm: The LSA seeks your feedback on its publication program: please complete the short survey at http://t.co/6r6JkE25
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2012-03-07 Waiting for Apple Store online to become available again. I’ve got some $$$ burning a hole in my wallet.
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2012-03-06 Daylight Saving Time begins in the US this Sunday, March 11, 2012, 2:00am. Spring forward one hour. #hadntrealizedthat
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2012-03-01 I’m a fanboy but this is just stupid Apple behavior: “iBookstore Rejects Book for Linking to Amazon” http://t.co/qeo0EzFh
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2012-02-29 RT @OnionPolitics: Romney Thanks State He Was Born And Raised In For Just Barely Giving Him Enough Votes To Beat Total Maniac http://t.c …
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2012-02-29 @apcarballo S&P LaTeX package contains some experimental biblatex code that solves the problem: http://t.co/L3EYkmdF. Ping me if unclear.
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2012-02-28 time to play: “@ttscoff: nvALT 2.2 public beta http://t.co/1V1ZqKvJ [post]”
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2012-02-28 @AidanMcGlynn that’s for a planet further out than ours.
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2012-02-28 RT @FakeElsevier: We at Elsevier look forward to shaping the future of publishing with aggressive, erratic behavior, followed by douchey …
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2012-02-28 Strengthen public access to publicly funded research and support the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2012 http://t.co/5hBELmsy
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2012-02-27 RT @BobLeyESPN: Gretzky’s creative vision, MJ’s power & defiance of gravity. This as good a time as ever for 6 good minutes of Messi. ht …
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2012-02-27 RT @chronicle: Hours after Elsevier pulled its support from the Research Works Act, the bill’s co-sponsors dropped it: http://t.co/vjZOmJ9C
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2012-02-27 @keith_wilson this is a richer representation than your 1st order formula. Me and my monkey are outside the hiding circle.
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2012-02-27 @keith_wilson so the fact that me and my monkey have nothing to hide is not part of the logical translation?
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2012-02-26 In any Open or Save dialog in OS X 10.6+, press Shift-Command-Period to display hidden files and folders. #soidontforget #osx
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2012-02-22 @LingSocAm Dear LSA, your website http://t.co/Y0jvFgBj is down.
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2012-02-14 http://t.co/c9R4xJhG: “social media may be an important factor in determining the scientific impact of an article”
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2012-02-14 RT @oatp: How the Scientific Community Reacts to Newly Submitted Preprints: Article Downloads, Twitter Mentions, and Citat… http://t.c …
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2012-02-13 @AndersJSchoubye don’t give a whole paper in 15 minutes. Give the best argument or two about the coolest data set or two.
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2012-02-13 @AndersJSchoubye if you can say sth interesting in 140 characters, why not in 15 minutes?
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2012-02-13 RT @semprag: New paper in S&P by Schwarz, Buccola, and Hamilton: “Two types of class B numeral modifiers: A reply to Nouwen 2010”. http: …
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2012-02-09 RT @mitlibraries: Honored & excited to announce that MIT Libraries will steward Noam Chomsky’s personal archive: http://t.co/T5TsBQSJ
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2012-02-09 RT @TheOnion: Biography Says Einstein Devised Theory Of Relativity On Paper Because He Wasn’t Smart Enough To Invent Microsoft Word http …
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2012-02-09 On the opinion page of the Boston Globe today: “Why scientists are boycotting a publisher” (itself behind paywall) http://t.co/2N3nwwZI
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2012-02-08 RT @semprag: Citation Impact 2008-2010 http://t.co/69svfbAB
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2012-02-07 @danvelleman What S&P is doing is sometimes called Platinum OA, full open access with no author fees. Best kind of OA, but needs funding.
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2012-02-06 Scientists, universities, scholarly societies, funding agencies need to cut the profiteers out of dissemination of knowledge. #openaccess
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2012-02-06 Elsevier PR’s attempt to talk down the boycotters: http://t.co/C9uDVvXi. Infuriating. #openaccess #oa
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2012-02-06 Starting the day with some old tunes from McCartney’s new album: http://t.co/MHZ42rpt
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2012-02-03 @consequently @gilbertharman Same here. S&P is LaTeX-based and likes .tex submissions but doesn’t require them.
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2012-02-03 RT @TeXtip: ShareLaTeX collaborative LaTeX editor https://t.co/S5bIcL2W
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2012-02-03 RT @semprag: The S&P site is fully functional again: http://t.co/SfSNFxrN. Let us know if you encounter any glitches.
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2012-02-02 Cogent critique of the AAA’s anti-Open Access stance: http://t.co/LG5IQ5ai.
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2012-02-02 RT @semprag: S&P backend is offline for an upgrade. Published articles still accessible. Hope to be back online later today.
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2012-02-01 MultiMo (The Database of Multiple Modals): http://t.co/XfJ3QQLq. You may have to check this out. (HT: http://t.co/aDFVybmm)
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2012-01-25 RT @Marathon_Sports: Registration for the @B_A_A_ Distance Medley (5k, 10k, Half Marathon) is officially open! http://t.co/VKhHr6x9
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2012-01-25 @jason_pontin “*all* in China”? 43,000 jobs in the United States is not nothing to create from your garage.
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2012-01-24 RT @mitlibraries: Do you have a personal open access policy? - http://t.co/QyJs7IOP - MIT Professor Kai von Fintel does…
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2012-01-24 RT @oatp: A Professor’s Personal Open Access Policy: “”Kai von Fintel, Professor of Linguistics and Associate Dean of the … http://t.c …
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2012-01-21 Yes. Good post: “Elsevier — my part in its downfall”. http://t.co/LOscFJ2r
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2012-01-21 @TaylorTwellman Dempsey success (totally great) does not show that MLS is a good league. Does Berbatov mean that Bulgarian league is great?
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2012-01-20 Whoa. RT @UnixToolTip Vim for iOS http://t.co/nxwTrayI via @hmason
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2012-01-20 @keith_wilson @anaximperator @PhilosopherLiam yeah. 63%. I thought I could do the subtraction on my head. No dice.
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2012-01-20 @anaximperator @keith_wilson @PhilosopherLiam chance of winning at least one lottery in your case = 100 - (99/100)^100 = 73%. Not certainty
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2012-01-20 @keith_wilson @PhilosopherLiam @anaximperator chances of at least one heads in 3 flips = 1-(1/2)^3 = 7/8.
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2012-01-19 Downloaded iBooks2 & wanted to check out the Algebra textbook sample (to see the math typography). Lots of crashing. No patience for that.
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2012-01-19 @AidanMcGlynn It’s a common phrase in job ads: https://t.co/F9610qY2. The search is open-ended, won’t be aborted if nobody is found soon.
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2012-01-18 Nature and Science have come out in opposition to the Research Works Act. http://t.co/5ZPb1DwL. http://t.co/8XP3tt5J.
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2012-01-18 @MorenoMitrovic Propositions are type <s,t>, in the basic set-up, see p.10 in http://t.co/pzwIlVxp.
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2012-01-17 My personal open access policy: http://t.co/NkgzHtoW.
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2012-01-15 RVP!
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2012-01-14 That was a pretty good half except for that INT. 5 TDs for Brady, 3 for The Gronk. Could get used to this.
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2012-01-14 Patriots score after 1:51. Big run by TE Hernandez.
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2012-01-14 It’s true. The Niners are back!
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2012-01-14 RT @rmathematicus: A significant day in the history of meta-logic Alfred Taski born 14 Jan 1901, Kurt Gödel died 14 Jan 1978
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2012-01-13 Required reading: http://t.co/fnh1oDVN.
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2012-01-13 RT @newscientist: Unique life form is half plant, half animal http://t.co/nZ7m0du0 << #Zoologger, by @m_c_marshall
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2012-01-12 Last year this rainstorm would have been a blizzard. #whereswinter
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2012-01-11 New paper on deontic modals. Comments welcome! http://t.co/MncqWLsi
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2012-01-11 Yet another handbook of semantics? In any case, this is a good survey of conditionals (by Égré & Cosiz): http://t.co/VMoXiMqc
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2012-01-10 Iatridou & Zeiljstra on “Negation, polarity and deontic modals”: http://t.co/yKPuCHKJ.
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2012-01-10 Soames puts David Lewis in his place: http://t.co/sKcIvONK
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2012-01-09 Cruyff: “Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d’Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable.”
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2012-01-09 RT @BBCBreaking: Barcelona’s Lionel Messi wins Fifa’s Ballon d’Or - becoming only the fourth player to win the trophy three times http:/ …
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2012-01-07 @charlietanksley So, you’ve abandoned vim for emacs?
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2012-01-06 @fintelkai Focus follows gaze might become reality: http://t.co/k63mu0oD
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2012-01-05 Will time be redefined? http://t.co/vcecdrOB
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2012-01-01 @fintelkai “Can Brady & Co outscore the world?” Today, they could. 49 unanswered points after being down 0-21.
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2012-01-01 My formerly favorite NFL TE: Brent Jones of the Steve Young 49ers. Now: Gronkowski & Hernandez of the 2011 Patriots!
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2012-01-01 The Patriots may have one of the best season records, but their defense will be shredded in the playoffs. Can Brady & Co outscore the world?
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2011-12-31 RT @HAL9000_: Jonathan Ive is being knighted for coming up with the designs for the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy S, Galaxy Tab
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2011-12-20 “What operating systems do astronomers use?” The triumph of OS X. http://t.co/nlLMPjNN
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2011-12-20 RT @UnixToolTip: “The enjoyment of one’s tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.” – Donald E. Knuth
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2011-12-20 RT @womensprosoccer: #WPS Star @AbbyWambach is 1st individual soccer player (male or female) to win AP Athlete of the Year! http://t.co/ …
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2011-12-17 @LiteralMinded The Globe costs like 99 cents a week. It’s good value, best newspaper website I have seen.
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2011-12-13 @EVER_3V3R I’ve started browsing through it. Seems great as I would have expected from Paul.
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2011-12-13 @themitcho So, I was wondering whether in that frame of mind, X = seven is possible.
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2011-12-13 @themitcho X=proverbial, metaphorical, figurative, old, goddamned. Also: After years of drinking, Bugsy finally kicked the gin-soaked bucket
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2011-12-13 @themitcho S&P is about to publish a squib with a bunch of OK modifications of such idioms. Bugsy kicked the X bucket, where X can be any of
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2011-12-13 @themitcho Looking forward to seeing them …
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2011-12-13 @themitcho “*Cats can kick seven buckets.” Your judgment, or where is this from? I’m reading sth this might be relevant to.
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2011-12-13 RT @macromates: Glad to announce the alpha release of TextMate 2.0: http://t.co/EkuA9Qaa
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2011-12-13 RT @newscientist: What is the Higgs boson and why does it matter? Physicist Lawrence Krauss explains all http://t.co/paUQ92Je #Higgs
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2011-12-13 RT @CERN: 2 hours to go before #CERN #Higgs seminar. Room full to the rafters. People would hang from the lamps if the security guards w …
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2011-12-13 RT @kjhealy: Today from CERN—Where the God Particle went Wrong, Some More of the God Particle’s Greatest Mistakes, and Who is this God P …
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2011-12-12 Danny & Kai http://t.co/XhmHfVlz
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2011-12-12 RT @humphd: Scientists at CERN are expected to announce at 9 am tomorrow that they have, with fairly strong certainty, observed TextMate …
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2011-12-12 RT @mpanzarino: First screenshot of TextMate 2.0 http://t.co/OGVPnePo via @peterc (Next up, pics of Bigfoot and Nessie writing code)
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2011-12-12 @bweatherson @PhilGeek Also, the shift to paper-free will come organically as a new generation (my kids and peers) takes over the world.
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2011-12-12 @bweatherson @PhilGeek My conversion to ebooks happened much faster and more completely than the move to paper free office workflow.
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2011-12-10 250 linguists. 1 windows pc, acrobat, PowerPoint. Onscreen alerts of virus scans and needed updates every 10 minutes. Productivity lost: ∞.
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2011-12-09 Morris Halle and Noam Chomsky holding a 1988 picture of them holding a picture taken of them in 1951. Recursion at MIT http://t.co/aP45x8TN
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2011-12-09 RT @themitcho: Today, 50 years of linguists return to MIT: http://t.co/8zFvoiv2 #ling50
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2011-12-06 ExPex: http://t.co/Xyh73qfM
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2011-12-03 Got me my own url shortener: “http://kvf.me/1” is the first shortened link.
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2011-11-28 @AskPayPal Not the notifications, just all marketing. I swear I have unsubscribed many times for weeks now and it never sticks.
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2011-11-28 Kudos to Elvis Costello: http://t.co/8NnF03cI
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2011-11-27 Trying to clean up my email act. http://t.co/M2md3KLq cc: @Paypal @AskPayPal @BostonBallet
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2011-11-25 @tosci Google Maps “is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate”. Douglas Adams.
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2011-11-23 Good stuff on writing, including LaTeX tips: http://t.co/eB8fHfpP.
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2011-11-22 @AndersJSchoubye tell the editors it’s badly written and uninteresting and let them make the call. It’s their job.
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2011-11-19 RvP = MVP!
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2011-11-18 Kind of makes me feel good to see @lancearmstrong say: “Gotta try and get back in some sort of shape.”
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2011-11-18 @rnouwen @themitcho lots of info on google about the Edward J. Sullivan Courthouse, including this link: http://t.co/KBBm6bzc
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2011-11-17 @rnouwen Ah, the Middlesex Superior Court building: http://t.co/a3uEQpd3, http://t.co/8l6D76hk
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2011-11-17 RT @themitcho: Saw “We Still Live Here” documentary on the amazing project to reclaim the Wôpanâak lang. On PBS tonight nationally! http …
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2011-11-17 New paper in S&P by Giorgio Magri: “Another argument for embedded scalar implicatures …” (too long for twitter). http://t.co/210KUtkD
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2011-11-16 Good tip from Macworld: How to upgrade tracks to iTunes Match, fast: http://t.co/o5Xc0Qt6
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2011-11-16 How (not) to uncover cross-linguistic variation http://t.co/MDE5sXdX
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2011-11-15 RT @siracusa: Some reverse-engineering of Siri’s wire protocol: http://t.co/YFEvWZ6P
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2011-11-15 Got my @nationalgridus electric bill. No acknowledgement of interminable power outage and crumbling infrastructure. Business as usual.
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2011-11-12 Spain would be better with Messi. That’s why club football is so much better quality. But can’t deny the emotion of national team soccer.
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2011-11-09 “Asking computer nerds to design social software is a little bit like hiring a Mormon bartender.” http://t.co/HXxSl9Bo
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2011-11-08 RT @kvaschik: The art of linguistic analysis: http://t.co/kJqiDQyp
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2011-11-08 RT @pmphlt: Tell the White House what you think about public access to scholarly publications; they’re asking. - http://t.co/q5lPyrzv
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2011-11-03 2012-11-09: 007 #23
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2011-11-01 @stevenf Dutschland of course.
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2011-11-01 RT @nationalgridus ETR for Berlin is 11/3 at 11:45pm.
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2011-10-31 @CodyHopkins Scott Brown is not here to restore our power. What are you talking about?
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2011-10-31 @nationalgridus has told Berlin MA rescue squad that we’ll be out of power until Saturday! Way to go.
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2011-10-31 @nationalgridus what’s the ETR for Berlin MA. Website still silent on that.
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2011-10-31 Following @nationalgridus bc their website is dysfunctional. No estimates on when power will be restored.
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2011-10-29 The football world is all for the better with Arsenal in the mix. 5:3 over Chelsea. What a game!
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2011-10-26 @dr_agonfly “Logan doesn’t really have free wifi.” What you talking about? Did they get rid of it? Was there last time I flew.
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2011-10-25 Gracious, lucid op-ed from Theo Epstein: Farewell, Red Sox Nation. http://t.co/uQtvDfVH.
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2011-10-24 I wasn’t the only one with an ill-advised mustache in 1982. http://t.co/nV6Iur0R
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2011-10-23 @JoshMalina @lynneguist I’m sure you meant “Schadenfreude” (since nouns are capitalized in German).
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2011-10-23 @lousylinguist @nmashton Comment #1: “If Jurgenson wants to show that Chomsky is wrong he should do it in 140 characters or fewer.”
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2011-10-23 Well, 6-1 City over United. As a ManU fan, that was not fun. Time to go for a run.
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2011-10-22 @AndersJSchoubye Anders & Ephraim: very cool. Thanks for the service to the field.
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2011-10-21 http://t.co/dJX2oyWd. Buy it (even if just to reward Fletcher for all his work on plain text authoring tools).
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2011-10-20 RT @nprmonkeysee: Okay. You know how weird you THOUGHT William Shatner’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” video would be? It’s much weirder. http://t …
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2011-10-19 RT @bbedit: Today is the last day of our $39.99 BBEdit 10 promotional pricing. If you’ve been thinking about taking the plunge, today is …
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2011-10-14 @alexilalas22 Clearly they should bring Rooney. He’s by far their best player. They’ll squeak out of the group and he’ll give them a boost.
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2011-10-08 @coffee001 eLanguage server?
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2011-10-07 @kachingle No, but there’s a recent questions RSS feed and a weekly newsletter.
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2011-10-07 If both the Rays and the Yankees were going to choke, why didn’t they let the Red Sox get a playoff spot? What’s the point? cc @gruber
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2011-10-06 Linguistics Q&A at Stack Exchange is open: http://t.co/mJEmwOlq
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2011-10-05 Think different. Start tomorrow.
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2011-10-05 RT @BillGates: Melinda and I extend our sincere condolences to Steve Jobs’ family & friends. The world rarely sees someone who made such …
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2011-10-05 Steve Jobs. 1955-2011. “The world has lost an amazing human being.” http://t.co/SgDLqx4b
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2011-10-05 Very sad news.
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2011-10-05 @dr_agonfly Yes, last year, when we woke up on our first morning on PEI, we experienced utter temporal confusion.
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2011-10-05 John Perry is on a roll: http://t.co/3T6G8nBI. He must be avoiding some big overdue piece of work.
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2011-10-05 Uh-oh: conflict between handwriting/drawing apps with wrist protection and iOS5 Multitasking Gestures: RT @cocoabox http://t.co/CUiKNr5y
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2011-10-03 @BostonBreakers It would be nice to be told a bit about the plans for next season. Which teams will be playing? Hard to buy w/o info. #wps
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2011-10-02 Brady ties Montana for career touchdowns. #patriots
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2011-09-30 RT @GlobeSox: RT @ohisian319: @BostonUpdate Can we get a #savefrancona hashtag going please #redsoxnation?
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2011-09-30 I despise the short term thinking around managing and coaching teams. Prime exhibits of long term commitment: Belichik, Ferguson, Wenger.
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2011-09-30 Looks like Chicago will profit big time from the Red Sox collapse: Francona to White Sox, Epstein to Cubs? http://t.co/WN19RI8A
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2011-09-29 RT @John_W_Henry: Congratulations to the entire Tampa Bay organization on a miraculous, but well-earned passport to the postseason.
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2011-09-29 RT @John_W_Henry: A very quiet day in Boston after a terrible, terrible month for the fans. Night after night they came, they tuned in. …
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2011-09-29 RT @Toucherandrich: Give the Boston Herald credit, their front page today is fantastic. http://t.co/fr9hSNHb
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2011-09-29 @PhilGeek Just sent you email with the classic references on the semantics of genitives.
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2011-09-29 Classic. Red Sox make history, again. Oh, well. Time to focus on football and football.
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2011-09-27 @hotdogsladies Like all the geeks, I choose “email in 2011”.
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2011-09-27 @daringfireball If you’re going to flame out, why not flame out in legendary fashion. #redsox
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2011-09-26 @gruber shameful #raysfansdontdeserveplayoffberth
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2011-09-26 Jacoby Ellsbury has 208 hits, 117 runs, 45 doubles, 31 homers, 103 RBIs, 38 steals and five triples. http://t.co/EUgpQLMf #redsox
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2011-09-25 Red Sox win the season series vs. Yankees 12-5. cc: @gruber
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2011-09-25 New men’s marathon world record set in Berlin: http://t.co/goAiSwDt. Awesome. #marathon #running #awe
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2011-09-24 RT @pgammo: Roche: Francona Firing Talk Laughable « CBS Boston: http://t.co/0J1Ddbr0 via @AddThis
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2011-09-24 Twitter sports talk of the morning: Francona and Wenger deserve ultimate job security. Some “fans” are completely insane. #redsox #arsenal
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2011-09-22 Next revolution in UI, please: focus follows gaze. When I *look* at a document window and hit ⌘-W, that window closes. #apple #please
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2011-09-22 Good: Markdown features now work in .txt documents (http://t.co/Y3smsRvp) RT @bywordapp Byword 1.4 is ready on the Mac App Store.
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2011-09-21 @paulhagstrom @ccshan I’ve often wanted to have that breathless announcer say at the end of class: “Next week, in Advanced Semantics, …”
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2011-09-21 @ccshan Hmm, I guess I’d have to see such a talk to understand why that’s a good thing. Imagine a journal article that withholds the title?
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2011-09-21 Allan Odgaard on the TextMate users list: “there will be a public alpha of Avian before christmas” More vapor? #TextMate
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2011-09-21 @ccshan Why is no title slide a good thing?
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2011-09-20 RT @daringfireball: Samuel L. Ipsum: http://df4.us/ibj
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2011-09-18 @AndersJSchoubye With you on the first and fourth. Will skip the two in the middle, since I do need to get out of the house.
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2011-09-16 G+: I ran 11 miles in the hills today (and I discovered a new steepish hill, halfway up Coburn Rd):… http://t.co/Gy8YrWWV
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2011-09-14 Red Sox and running updates: http://t.co/AIeKpdB
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2011-09-13 @GeneHunt @consequently Also, I hate it when people say they’re omnivores and then they don’t eat blood-brain sausage.
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2011-09-13 @GeneHunt @consequently You think they should say they’re “pescatarians”? Sure, people will immediately understand that. Right.
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2011-09-13 Good times. RT @CNNMoney Nation’s poverty rate climbs to 15.1%, the highest level since 1993, the Census Bureau says. http://t.co/oQG7eWK
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2011-09-12 I think the Patriots have a pretty decent quarterback.
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2011-09-12 10 miles = rest day. Wow. RT @runmeb People usually ask me what is a recovery day looks like for me? Well, 10mi run at 9,000 ft today.
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2011-09-12 Running and speaking http://t.co/Vwj4Xtb
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2011-09-08 @AidanMcGlynn In any case, a pox on all of them. I wish people spent their energies on establishing open access journals.
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2011-09-08 @AidanMcGlynn Springer is friendlier to Open Access than WB. WB required a 24 month embargo before I could post a paper of mine to the web.
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2011-09-08 @AidanMcGlynn Not so obvious that Springer is worse than Wiley-Blackwell. In fact, I suspect it’s the other way round.
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2011-09-08 PDF Expert 3 croaks at syncing my Dropbox folder of reading materials. Feedback sent. Back to GoodReader. (cc @Readdle)
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2011-09-07 Clearly a known issue; within just 3 minutes & no remote troubleshooting, they told me that I’d get a replacement Kindle within two days
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2011-09-07 + awesome customer service from Amazon on my broken Kindle
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2011-09-07 @apcarballo I’ll let you know when I’ve tested the new version. I didn’t use to have roundtrip problems with any of these apps.
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2011-09-07 PDF Expert - Goodreader: arms race, of the good kind. RT @Readdle The new version of PDF Expert for iPad is out. http://t.co/9rGs6nc
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2011-09-07 Stack Exchange Q&A site proposal: Linguistics http://t.co/UocELv0
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2011-09-07 RT @pmphlt: JSTOR makes out-of-copyright articles in their collection freely available - http://t.co/iN4Bk5z
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2011-09-06 Result of trying offline gmail for chrome after it syncs things into local storage: google locks my gmail account for excessive usage!
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2011-09-06 Preçis of S&P paper by Schlenker wins award: http://t.co/aShGToZ.
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2011-09-04 @nmashton thanks. No worries about the projector. I had fun peppering you all with superfresh thoughts as inchoate they may have been.
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2011-09-04 This is a great idea that I hope will catch on: “Announcing the Malapa Soft Tissue Project”, http://j.mp/nVoIhW. #openscience
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2011-08-30 @drdrang @PhilGeek iOS-ification is fine as long as getting down to unix doesn’t require jailbreak.
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2011-08-29 @AndersJSchoubye I couldn’t watch because I’m stuck traveling. But sounds like Barça held serve.
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2011-08-29 Stymied by thruway closures on our way to Ithaca. Vacation fail, so far. Stupid hurricane!
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2011-08-28 @AndersJSchoubye It’ll be a fun season, for sure. I had the bitter-sweet experience today watching my second team beat my third team 8:2.
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2011-08-28 @schar I don’t do mass media for weather, just NWS, no hype there and perhaps just 10% off.
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2011-08-28 I’ll definitely be miffed if the power goes out before the end of ManU v Arsenal. Already had brownouts and breakers tripping.
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2011-08-28 Annoyed at people who can’t count their blessings and seem miffed that the storm is not more furious.
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2011-08-28 Lots of rain, retention ponds overflowing, pretty strong winds, but we’re safe and dry. Not looking forward to taking the puppy out.
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2011-08-27 RT @AskDrRuth: And please people, don’t do anything silly like going outside during hurricane to have sex. Tell u’re friends you did it, …
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2011-08-27 Indeed, very baffling. RT @MacSparky It baffles me why the Dropbox app doesn’t auto update (or at least tell me when there is an update).
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2011-08-27 RT @davidcanter: THERE’S A SHARK IN THE STREET. Hurricane Irene. Puerto Rico http://t.co/jvkDStT
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2011-08-25 @gruber Yup, the Yankees are without doubt the best second place team in the majors.
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2011-08-25 @charlietanksley 10:30am is perfectly good time for lunch if you get up at 5am.
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2011-08-25 Applause! RT @oatp Libraries reject ‘raw deal’ on e-journals: http://t.co/joEYNHX
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2011-08-24 RT @danielpunkass: AAPL selling at a $20/share discount. Those who are selling think Jobs was a great CEO, but not great enough to build …
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2011-08-24 Sad indeed. RT @davewiner Letter from Steve Jobs. (So fucking sad.). http://r2.ly/bnkk
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2011-08-24 RT @Ihnatko: Seriously, New Englanders…prepare for a “stay at home” weekend at best and emergency conditions at worst. http://t.co/0rTMBLG
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2011-08-23 RT @newscientist: Why liquefying your body is the green solution when you die http://t.co/JXjNN4v
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2011-08-22 Hmm, wow: “Thanks also … to my mother for typing the bulk of the paper.” http://t.co/AvtVvEW
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2011-08-21 @ccshan !! Starting when? I’ll be there on 9/1 for a talk.
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2011-08-21 @wataruu Congratulations, Wataru! All my best to you and yours.
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2011-08-19 @natecha http://t.co/kPLKWoM, http://t.co/Sh8GWJh, probably much more
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2011-08-19 @AndersJSchoubye I despise Mourinho for the anti-soccer that his teams play. That’s completely independent of what the team is.
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2011-08-19 @AndersJSchoubye Wow, easy, tiger. That’s like sacrilege.
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2011-08-19 RT @danfrakes: Tablet makers are absolutely, positively *not* copying Apple: http://t.co/LQpDjdC (via @chartier)
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2011-08-16 Oh, thank you! RT @TextExpander Dropbox syncing is now available in TextExpander touch v.1.2. http://t.co/0uIlIYg
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2011-08-15 RT @sportsfeat: “Using Math to Crack the Barca Code” Analyzing the world’s greatest team: http://t.co/Gom5S2k (new @spiegel_english)
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2011-08-14 RT @serry_san: Fabulous @BostonBreakers game (on to the playoffs!) followed by dinner at Stellina #soccerandfinedining #indenialaboutwor …
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2011-08-14 ArXiv at 20: http://t.co/xPZ2cB0
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2011-08-13 Berwick, Pietroski, Yankama & Chomsky: Poverty of the Stimulus Revisited. http://t.co/FzoVN07
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2011-08-11 @paulhagstrom a watched spotlight index never finishes
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2011-08-11 @MacSparky nice work. Congrats!
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2011-08-11 @TeXtip G'odel produces Gódel. Need G"odel for Gödel. But why? Just use a non archaic encoding (like UTF8) and input Gödel.
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2011-08-10 RT @karlpro: do you have a linkedin account? Time for you to (un)check your settings http://c8l.ca/1e6
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2011-08-09 RT @pulmyears: The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting local …
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2011-08-09 RT @Twitterrific: v4.3 for iOS & Mac now available. Timeline syncing & more. Special 50% off Mac price for limited time! http://bit.ly/n …
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2011-08-09 RT @TPEconomy: Depressing chart: Women need to have a Ph.D. to make as much money as men with a B.A. http://thkpr.gs/qIHlbx #PayGap
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2011-08-08 @gruber Agree on Rivera. But also: the Red Sox are the team he has the most trouble with historically, so this isn’t necessarily new.
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2011-08-08 That was worth staying up for. #fb
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2011-08-06 @charlietanksley lewis:1986:plurality, auto-generated by BibDesk (I put sth mnemonic into a custom field “slug” for the third part)
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2011-08-05 Downton Abbey second season starting September in UK (there’ll also be a Christmas special) and January in US: http://t.co/WEfycYl
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2011-08-03 @charlietanksley nope, waiting for a beta invite
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2011-08-03 Yet another new text editor: Chocolat (http://t.co/b1ddQbj @chocolatapp).
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2011-08-02 RT @semprag: Crossref updates DOI display guidelines: http://wp.me/p1DXal-3s
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2011-08-02 @lohte Application for what? Chief scribe at a medieval library? What’s all that paper for?
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2011-08-01 F**&$$!k: “@GlobeSox: Report: Clay Buchholz has stress fracture in his back http://t.co/viNQgj0 via @PeteAbe #redsox”
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2011-08-01 RT @alexilalas22: Parting is such sweet sorrow. RT @PCarrESPN: Bad news for umlaut lovers. Klinsmann prefers first name be spelled Jurge …
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2011-08-01 In Klinsmann, U.S. Soccer Gets Chance at a Dynamic Reboot: http://t.co/Mo99EcK
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2011-07-31 @themitcho Word, qu’est-ce que c’est?
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2011-07-30 FixMacTeX2011 is a small install package which fixes a bug in MacTeX 2011: http://t.co/jqkAWE1 #latex
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2011-07-29 Yes! The man who revived German soccer takes on the US: “@ussoccer: Jürgen Klinsmann named head coach of #USMNT: http://t.co/IStnSlg”
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2011-07-28 Stu Shieber on the Aaron Swartz/JSTOR case: http://j.mp/ngMiv8. I agree 100%.
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2011-07-28 @schar Much obliged.
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2011-07-28 @schar I don’t see Nate’s paper on Synthese site. Somewhere hidden?
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2011-07-28 Synthese has 212 articles accepted and “online first”, waiting for an issue to appear in! http://t.co/gLjatKu. S&P is a better alternative!
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2011-07-28 @schar congrats. You’re next.
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2011-07-28 @schar that’s a pretty sparse audience
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2011-07-28 Very useful Safari/Chrome extension: Banish Multi-Page Articles http://t.co/1pel8PX (via @daringfireball)
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2011-07-28 @rnouwen Yay!
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2011-07-27 My goal: make my morning run as natural, inevitable, and necessary as the morning check of email, twitter, rss, google+, facebook.
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2011-07-26 @schar Nope. No problem here. What gestures in particular?
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2011-07-26 New paper in S&P by Justin Khoo: “Operators or restrictors? A reply to Gillies”. http://t.co/x1AAtgR
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2011-07-26 From the TextMate oracle: http://t.co/epaH4dr. #notquiteabandonware
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2011-07-25 Hilarious and close to home: “@PhilGeek: Bad academic style criticized http://t.co/D4Rq82s”
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2011-07-25 Sabbatical Diary 2011-07-25 http://wp.me/p1eVJ0-2o
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2011-07-22 @hotdogsladies Markdown workflow with Lion
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2011-07-22 @drdrang TextExpander to the rescue? isnt -> isn’t, etc.?
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2011-07-21 Google Scholar Citations http://wp.me/p1eVJ0-2m
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2011-07-20 via @gruber: ScrollReverser makes Snow Leopard scrolling behave the Lion-way: http://t.co/k1J7gYt #Lion
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2011-07-20 Unbelievably cool: TeXShop has been updated in a big way for Lion: http://t.co/DdnBQ4P, incl. autosave, versions, resume. #Lion
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2011-07-20 Installing Lion: http://t.co/7tJk7TJ. #Lion
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2011-07-20 @paulhagstrom I’m contemplating alternatives, such as the new version of BBEdit.
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2011-07-20 Info on TextMate compatibility with Lion: http://t.co/evtZwBc. “We will release an update to correct the issues where possible” #abandonware
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2011-07-20 Siracusa’s review of Lion: 106 pages in pdf (yes, I paid the $5 subscription for that). http://t.co/uGgVNXa
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2011-07-20 RT @Ihnatko: Link to purchase Lion on the App Store: http://t.co/poceXsF
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2011-07-19 @ttscoff more discussion here: http://t.co/Pof0HgL
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2011-07-19 @ttscoff I was just pointed at this: http://t.co/fzxBpKI for crossposting to twitter, facebook, and g+
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2011-07-19 Statement from JSTOR about today’s news: http://t.co/wpF6si8
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2011-07-19 RT @jsnell: It’s official: Lion launches tomorrow.
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2011-07-19 RT @rdpenner: Dear @ESPN: will you add WPS results now to your ESPN2 ticker? I would say America is pretty interested in these athletes.
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2011-07-18 Big feature on sound symbolism: “Kiki or bouba? In search of language’s missing link” New Scientist: http://t.co/gyevxTS
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2011-07-15 Shifting at least some sharing from facebook to google+: http://t.co/PZjgwlW. DM me if you need an invite.
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2011-07-15 New post on Language Log: http://t.co/QZPhrxp. That was a fun one to write.
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2011-07-12 RT @Pogue: Uh-oh. Netflix just broke up its DVD-by-mail and streaming-video services. For most people, that’s a huge price jump! http:// …
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2011-07-12 RT @AMCrossley: #WPS Boston Breakers enjoying clear ticket sales boost from #USWNT drama in Germany. Last 24 hours have seen best onlin …
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2011-07-12 Might Made Right Published! http://wp.me/p1eVJ0-2d
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2011-07-10 @charlietanksley You have to get off social networking if you don’t want spoilers. That’s what I do when I TiVo stuff. But ok mum’s the word
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2011-07-09 That’s why they play the games. Germany out. #WWC2011
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2011-07-09 Valiant effort by England. France deserved to win. #WWC2011
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2011-07-08 Against eliminating social science at NSF: David Brooks: The Unexamined Society. http://nyti.ms/pcG2fv
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2011-07-08 @jfrazee thanks, Joey.
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2011-07-06 @natecha you should get a phd just for that ftw
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2011-07-06 @AndersJSchoubye wow talk about a ringer.
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2011-07-06 My first post on Language Log: Justice Breyer, Professor Austin, and the Meaning of ‘Any’ (http://t.co/yjCrl2w) #fb
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2011-07-05 Sabbatical Diary 2011-07-05 http://wp.me/p1eVJ0-28
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2011-07-03 Unbelievably bad refereeing: http://t.co/4dvRoQg. It’s time for my daughter to move up in the refereeing ranks.
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2011-07-03 @PhilGeek I disagree w/ Dropbox FUD. Typical TOS for any service in the cloud (cf. Google Docs, wordpress.com, even any hosting company).
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2011-06-30 My one year sabbatical starts right now.
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2011-06-29 Right on all counts: “Six ways to fix American soccer” - SignOnSanDiego.com http://t.co/PemW70r
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2011-06-29 RT @violetinbloom: Beyond amused to discover the official Oxford style guide disowns the Oxford comma. http://bit.ly/jzmdY9 Take that, …
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2011-06-29 @PhilGeek “watch”? What’s that? Some kind of steampunk thing, I suspect.
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2011-06-27 RT @GrantWahl: Generation gap between MEX/USA best players: Chicharito is 23, Barrera 24, Guardado 24, Dos Santos 22. Donovan is 29, Dem …
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2011-06-25 RT @oatp: Elsevier profits and faculty priorities: “Queries whether Elsevier profits are higher priority to faculty than f… http://bit …
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2011-06-24 Overcast, damp, 14C, and I don’t mind it. Somehow I think I’m Northern European. #fb
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2011-06-22 @AndersJSchoubye Congrats! Well done.
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2011-06-22 Not just linguistics, all of social science: “@LingSocAm: Federal Funding for Linguistics is Under Threat: http://t.co/TVBi7W8”
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2011-06-22 RT @LingSocAm: Federal Funding for Linguistics is Under Threat: http://www.lsadc.org/info/june22reNSF.pdf
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2011-06-22 Working from home hampered by cable outage. On the net (barely) via iPhone tethering. OTH: almost distraction-free. #fb
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2011-06-19 S&P Editors’ Blog rebooted and two new posts about associate editors and about lumpiness: http://t.co/bCOlp8a.
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2011-06-17 @thomas_hodgson DeRose gave a paper called “Accommodation and Epistemic Impossibilities that Nobody Knows to be False”, don’t know its state
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2011-06-17 @thomas_hodgson MacFarlane: http://t.co/BWnidXt, http://t.co/S35aDpj
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2011-06-17 @thomas_hodgson No, and there are discussions by MacFarlane and DeRose
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2011-06-17 RT @antonyeagle: Pullum’s question concerning ‘Now is all the time there may be’ http://wp.me/p1rjU4-5z
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2011-06-16 The Patriots haven’t been champions for six long years. Get with it! The Sox, Celtics, and now Bruins are ahead of you! #fb
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2011-06-15 A gentle introduction to Twitter for the apprehensive academic: http://t.co/iAd6HgN
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2011-06-15 For all parents: http://t.co/rbtPUV5. So very much true to life. (Note: the actual reading is uncensored.)
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2011-06-01 It’s National Running Day (http://t.co/JVOw5fy). I suppose I should get off my duff & go for an afternoon run in the early summer heat. #fb
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2011-05-28 @AndersJSchoubye My least favorite Barça player. I’d trade him for Khedira in a heartbeat.
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2011-05-28 Messi, Rooney, Xavi, Hernandez, Iniesta, Valencia. I couldn’t be more excited. Can’t wait for the kickoff. #fb
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2011-05-28 @AidanMcGlynn ignorance runs rampant among the young.
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2011-05-27 @ccshan yup, that’s what it feels like. All kinds of emotions getting in the way of science.
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2011-05-27 @ccshan For people of a certain generation, debating Chomsky rather than the issues is really a form of patricide.
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2011-05-27 @gilbertharman Maybe, Leiter should also add asterisks for obesity and come to think of it, for having read too much Nietzsche.
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2011-05-23 @consequently happens to me all the time. Simultaneously glad to see that I’m not an idiot and sad to see my memory go.
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2011-05-20 Wow, these superstars were young once too. “@schar: amazing, via @bhpartee: ucla syntax conference, february 1969. http://t.co/O8FkbM2”
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2011-05-20 @schar That’s easy to fix. We’ll just call Chris “Richard” from now on. I’m sure he won’t mind.
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2011-05-17 Modal Semantics in the News http://wp.me/p1eVJ0-1Y
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2011-05-17 A feast for cross-world-identification semantics: “He played [my songs] the way I would have done them if I was him.” (Dylan re Hendrix)
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2011-05-17 The official doc on judgment day (http://t.co/CJotCw5) is vague on the time. Will we miss the rapture while on our flight to the beach? #fb
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2011-05-16 @themitcho Maker’s Mark? FTW!
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2011-05-14 @paulhagstrom why are you using Word?!?
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2011-05-12 “What the fuck?” he said. “Ah, yes,” I said. “The ultimate question.” [Robert Parker, Sixkill.] RIP, Bob. #fb
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2011-05-12 This sounds like good summer reading: “@doctorow: NAPIER’S BONES Mysticism and adventure, an sf novel about math http://t.co/Yb0m8pq”
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2011-05-08 @AndersJSchoubye Always “iff” without a period. Did you run into an ornery copy-editor?
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2011-05-07 This new iPhone app looks great: http://t.co/GnPW5Ns. I haven’t tried it out yet.
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2011-04-23 RT @BeatlesTweets: Today in 1960 John and Paul performed at a pub together to an audience of three. They called themselves “The Nerk Twins”
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2011-04-23 @wfm_framingham Are you open on Easter Sunday?
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2011-04-23 @WFM_Bellingham Are you open on Easter Sunday?
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2011-04-22 @AndersJSchoubye Plenty of links at http://t.co/HxYIp2S
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2011-04-22 Middle seat on a redeye flight. Punishment for what?
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2011-04-21 Sitting at the bay in the warm California sun. A very pleasant two day visit with some work and plenty of hangout time with friends. #fb
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2011-04-21 @AndersJSchoubye Yes, the first half was terrible. The goal came out of nowhere, but in the end, it was a deserved win, it hurts me to say.
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2011-04-21 @AndersJSchoubye Congrats. I hope this satisfies you, because you’re not going to get the other two trophies.
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2011-04-20 This is how to spend lunchtime at a philosophy conference: at a bar watching Barça vs Madrid. #fb
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2011-04-20 @charlietanksley An inspired choice for morning brain music! Thanks. Time to get all my Clifford Brown CDs ripped.
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2011-04-20 $19.95 per day for wireless at the San Diego Bayfront Hilton? No thanks. I’ll just tether the laptop and the iPad to my iPhone. #MyWi #fb.
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2011-04-19 Many superfit people flying out of Logan today. I feel out of place. #bostonmarathon #gottarunmore #fb
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2011-04-19 Snagged tickets for the US/Spain friendly on June 4. We get to see the world champs! Hope some of my favorites will play. #fb
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2011-04-18 Hmm, Wikipedia says: “The course is now considered invalid for international records.” #bostonmarathon
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2011-04-18 Ryan Hall sets American Record in 4th place. #bostonmarathon
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2011-04-18 A world record set in the Boston Marathon (which is impossible with the hills). What a great morning of racing today! #bostonmarathon #fb
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2011-04-18 That was unbelievable. And now for the men’s finish. #bostonmarathon
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2011-04-18 Marathon getting very exciting. #bostonmarathon
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2011-04-18 Now, early breakaways in both men’s and women’s races. Ryan Hall and Kim Smith. Bad strategy? #bostonmarathon
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2011-04-18 Fascinating early breakaway in the women’s race. #bostonmarathon
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2011-04-16 Joys of youth soccer. Know-nothing parents yelling “big kick! boot it up there!”
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2011-04-11 Theoretical Workload Limit http://wp.me/p1eVJ0-1S
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2011-04-04 The program for SALT 2011 at Rutgers is out: http://salt.rutgers.edu/Program. Looks great; I’m sorry I won’t be there.
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2011-03-31 Work apocalypse: Someone is scheduled to meet with me for 15 minutes while I walk across campus from one meeting to the other.
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2011-03-30 Chinese translation: http://wp.me/p1eVJ0-1M
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2011-03-29 My gmail account got hacked last night. Spending the morning changing passwords. Maybe I’ll go back to paper and phone. #fb
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2011-03-25 WGBH interview with Jay Keyser re #MIT #hacks: http://bit.ly/gZgd4w #fb
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2011-03-24 @schar Simon, that should have been: “‘literally’ is literally a *focus* sensitive adverb”
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2011-03-18 Cabin announcements in Spanish. On our way to Puerto Rico. #fb
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2011-03-15 Research for the Perfect Cup of Coffee at MIT: http://bit.ly/f5hEv7 #fb
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2011-03-11 Forget all iPad all day: “Japan declares nuclear emergency as attempts to cool reactor at northern plant are not going as planned”. #fb
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2011-03-09 @natecha That’s why lots of people end up underpaid going into a new job and have a very hard time catching up for a loong time.
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2011-03-08 @AndersJSchoubye Close. Your landsman muffed that chance. I think RVP might have scored on that.
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2011-03-08 @carriejenkins that’s good; Emma definitely has the look of always just having returned from a barefoot and barehanded antarctic expedition.
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2011-03-08 @bweatherson Hah, my tweet was ambiguous, stop the presses.
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2011-03-08 If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I feel very sorry for you.
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2011-03-08 Trying to get my main task of the day done so that I can enjoy the big Arsenal - Barcelona match later this afternoon.
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2011-03-08 @carriejenkins My daughter has that as well. No fun when it’s cold out. This year it’s been particularly bad. My sympathies.
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2011-03-07 Amen! “Leiter Reports: Declining Admissions Offers in a Timely Way” http://bit.ly/gpoG2o
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2011-02-28 @schar My wife agrees. It goes both ways: Sorkin writes most of my dialogue.
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2011-02-24 (No) skin in the game http://wp.me/p1eVJ0-1H
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2011-02-22 @themitcho my macbook air woke up this morning with a dysfunctional keyboard (no liquid spill, which is the usual reason)
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2011-02-22 @zachklein @schar Meh, tiny portion of their library.
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2011-02-22 @AndersJSchoubye yup, but the laptop was less than a month old, plus they like me there.
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2011-02-22 A short visit to the Genius Bar and I have a brand new replacement laptop. Restoring from backup now. Fully back at work very soon. #fb
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2011-02-22 Waking up to a sick computer … almost as bad as waking up to a sick child. Genius Bar, I’m on my way.
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2011-02-21 @cvanurk @themitcho Damn, I’m such a fanboy and I miss my one chance to meet him.
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2011-02-21 “@stephenfry: Frank Gehry’s remarkable building here in MIT - http://frypi.cc/ehWDEe” Looks like it’s taken from our department lounge.
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2011-02-21 “Shady Characters: The secret life of punctuation” Great looking new blog. http://bit.ly/htg8rF (HT: @diveintomark)
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2011-02-19 My academic lineage - Part 1 http://wp.me/p1eVJ0-1m
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2011-02-14 @themitcho Awesome, mitcho. I didn’t know it was from you. It was very nice.
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2011-02-13 Awesome maps: “It’s 10:15 in Germany” (http://bit.ly/g3snUs). It’s “viertel nach zehn” and “Puschen” (or “Pantoffeln”) for me.
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2011-02-11 Xavi! (http://bit.ly/gs9gzi)
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2011-02-11 Apparently translated by Google: “Statement From the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces” (http://nyti.ms/eN6Lui)
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2011-02-09 @schar Yup, second most cited classic in semantics and pragmatics (first: Naming and Necessity, by far). Of course, Aspects has 14549.
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2011-02-08 I have no “Googleganger” (http://bit.ly/eyrmol).
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2011-02-06 likes The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore by The Walker Brothers on Ping http://t.co/8cnre0F #iTunes
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2011-02-02 @ccshan @makotokanazawa What’s new is that publication will now be electronic only (and at eLanguage). I’ve updated my blog post.
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2011-02-02 @paulhagstrom well, I can tell you that out here in the Worcester hills, it’s a terrible wintry mix of precipitation. Very bad.
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2011-02-01 @themitcho Very incomplete. People will need to put in some work to make it useful.
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2011-02-01 RT @themitcho: Just discovered LinguisTree http://t.co/XnE0vhE Like the Mathematics Geneology project, but for Linguistics.
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2011-02-01 @bweatherson See there *are* worlds where 1 + 1 = 3!
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2011-02-01 Snow!: http://wp.me/p1eVJ0-1d
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2011-02-01 SALT Proceedings: http://wp.me/p1eVJ0-19
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2011-01-31 @ccshan not academics whose kids have one snow day after another.
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2011-01-31 Another huge winter storm on the way. I’d look into shorting New England based companies b/c productivity this quarter has to stink.
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2011-01-27 Winter: http://wp.me/p1eVJ0-12
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2011-01-25 Many worlds: http://wp.me/p1eVJ0-Z
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2011-01-24 Mine: http://xkcd.com/242/ “@TomLevenson: RT @enniscath What’s your favourite quote about science? “What happens when I do this?…..””
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2011-01-22 Brilliant: “Journal of Universal Rejection” http://bit.ly/hJDMdH (via David Sobel).
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2011-01-18 Epistemic Modality volume will appear in 2011: http://wp.me/p1eVJ0-R
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2011-01-14 How did it happen that I have four articles to review? I really have to work more on controlling that person who says yes on my behalf.
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2011-01-11 @paulhagstrom The big one is in November, of course. 11/11/11 11:11:11.
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2011-01-10 @AndersJSchoubye good point. I’d be comfortable with Schweinsteiger but there are other good choices for holding midfield.
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2011-01-10 @TomLevenson I’m procrastinating by reading a book about procrastination. #fail #meta
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2011-01-10 Six players from CF Barcelona. 10 “Latinos” (Spain/Catalonia, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina). Wesley Sneijder the only “Northerner”.
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2011-01-10 FIFA’s World XI: Casillas, Pique, Puyol, Maicon, Lucio, Xavi, Iniesta, Sneijder, Messi, Ronaldo, Villa. Can’t disagree.
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2010-12-31 @themitcho protip on dog walking: coffee goes in a no-spill thermal mug.
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2010-12-27 @AndersJSchoubye thanks!
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2010-12-24 @carriejenkins I need some of those gloves to. What do you recommend?
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2010-12-18 And there’s nobody picking up phones at Delta because of “extreme weather conditions” (like where? in India?).
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2010-12-18 Delta doesn’t like the way my name is spelled on my passport, so I can’t check in for our flight tomorrow.
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2010-12-16 Delicious –> Pinboard: http://wp.me/p1eVJ0-O
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2010-12-14 Sidebar Additions: http://wp.me/p1eVJ0-M
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2010-12-12 @chrislhayes @schar That may actually be true about Belichick (who’s a genius either way) but not about Brady (who’s one cool dude).
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2010-12-12 The Patriots have outscored opponents 100 to 3 since the middle of the third quarter on Thxgiving.
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2010-12-12 The Carol Chomsky Memorial Fund “has been established to raise and distribute funds to victims of war and occup… http://wp.me/p1eVJ0-E
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2010-12-11 Bye Bye DYI. Hello Walled Garden. http://wp.me/p1eVJ0-c
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2010-12-11 @schar ah, yes, you’ve been visited by the dib.
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2010-12-10 *^$*!@&% There’s a whole other layer to the hacking of my website. I will be moving to a walled garden this weekend. Bye Bye to DYI.
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2010-12-09 Found out that my website has been injected with hidden spam. Trying to get rid of it all & finding the backdoor that the hackers used.
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2010-12-08 New OS X LaTeX editor: http://tacosw.com/latexian/. I assume it’s worth checking out.
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2010-12-06 Hmm, the Jets didn’t show up. Somehow this seems too easy. Kind of like the old days. Not that I’m complaining. I’ll take a blowout any day.
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2010-12-02 Got myself an about.me page: http://about.me/kaivonfintel.
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2010-11-29 Great 60% off sale on ebooks at O’Reilly. One Day Only: 11/29/2010. http://htxt.it/CPV8 Just got myself thre… http://hellotxt.com/l/YwDkCm
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2010-11-29 I shouldn’t gloat but 5:0 is the sweetest score imaginable. A good day.
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2010-11-29 @AndersJSchoubye This one should be epic.
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2010-11-28 I wish I could make it to NYC some time soon so I could see this: http://htxt.it/LBXj But alas, that doesn’t fit in my schedule.
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2010-11-28 RT @daringfireball: How Germany Got It Right on the Economy: http://df4.us/gob
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2010-11-16 This is where I’ll be spending the weekend: http://htxt.it/UPMi Can’t wait.
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2010-11-16 The Beatles on iTunes: http://htxt.it/ZZpT That would have been more exciting a few years ago. Now, I have the Box Set on CD and ripped it.
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2010-11-12 Exercise deficit (only 11 miles run this week, so far), the end of daylight saving time, the end of daylight at all -> too much bleariness.
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2010-11-12 Retxt @MITNews: #icanhazmilk? MIT researchers examine the physics behind how cats drink: http://bit.ly/aziKYG @ICHCheezburger
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2010-11-11 @natecha That seems like a mention-some question. Last chapter of Groenendijk & Stokhof’s thesis. Also: doi:10.1007/s11168-004-1975-0.
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2010-11-11 Digital pencils are all sharpened. Luckily, it’s almost lunch time, so there’s another way to procrastinate. But then I write!
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2010-11-09 @schar you’ll get extra points when you can figure out the mountain top allusion in Mats’ acknowledgments
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2010-11-08 RT @themitcho: Preapply coffee stains to your LaTeX documents http://bit.ly/cNhGP9 /via @TeXtip @divbyzero
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2010-11-02 DFW: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and doubling the value of someone else’s vote
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2010-10-31 @carriejenkins living in Massachusetts, one naturally becomes a fan of the Patriots, Celtics, and of course the Red Sox.
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2010-10-31 First class on the shuttle to DC for an all day meeting tomorrow. I feel important but would rather be home for Halloween on my porch.
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2010-10-31 @carriejenkins clearly, a subject you need to study up on. I used to be a big 49er fan back in the day. Now it’s the Patriots all the way.
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2010-10-29 @bweatherson Congrats, Ishani & Brian! She looks inquisitive already.
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2010-10-27 33 emails not yet dealt with in my mailbox. I’m so used to inbox zero that I’m getting seriously freaked out.
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2010-10-27 @natecha It’s actually “Was ‘Können’ und ‘Müssen” Bedeuten Können Müssen” (what they must be able to mean).
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2010-10-19 @natecha you prefer non-commercial hotels? Non-profits?
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2010-10-11 MIT Economist Peter Diamond wins Nobel Prize: http://bit.ly/aatxe7. Add one more to the list: http://web.mit.edu/ir/pop/awards/nobel.html.
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2010-10-10 Happy 42 Day. Or 101010 Day if you’re restricted to a binary system. #42day
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2010-10-05 Cool: Andre Geim wins physics Nobel for discovering graphene, already won Ig Nobel for magnetically levitating a frog. http://bit.ly/aMLV7W
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2010-10-01 @MacSparky: me too, still looking for the holy grail of iPad pdf apps
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2010-09-28 Yikes, I hope my friends in Austin are all OK. “Police on scene of shooting on UT campus” http://bit.ly/9ksecM
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2010-09-28 Ken Hale’s student and collaborator Jessie Little Doe Baird wins genius grant: http://www.macfound.org/fellows/2010/baird.
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2010-09-28 Glowing review of “The Social Network” in The New Yorker: http://nyr.kr/bJ6ELy. I guess I’ll have to go see it. I like Sorkin’s dialogue.
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2010-09-25 Listening to Neil Young’s new album: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129955938
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2010-09-03 NASA Pic: “Hurricane Earl along the North Carolina Coast” http://bit.ly/d783Xn
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2010-09-02 I knew it: “Stephen Hawking says universe not created by God” http://bit.ly/cNsQnI
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2010-09-02 “Short Sharp Science: A birds eye view of hurricane Earl” http://bit.ly/aws6MW
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2010-08-19 @tosci what’s with the ALL CAPS tweets? Seems like shouting.
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2010-08-16 @Lagat1500 Quark. Almost unavailable in the states, except for http://bit.ly/c0YkIf. See also http://bit.ly/daYrXW.
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2010-08-13 The way it has to be, Scottie Pippen in the Hall of Fame: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/sports/basketball/13pippen.html.
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2010-08-12 @thomas_hodgson TeX Live 2009 has been frozen: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx/37055. Waiting for TL2010.
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2010-08-10 Author on leave after Harvard inquiry - http://b.globe.com/bN4vpT (via @BostonUpdate) – Marc Hauser in trouble
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2010-08-09 @thomas_hodgson http://www.jstor.org/pss/30226193
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2010-08-07 Yikes. RT @cnnbrk: City-sized ice island breaks off Greenland. http://on.cnn.com/9a8Rls
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2010-07-31 RT @LanguageLog: Universal Grammar haters: It’s bizarre. Suddenly every piece of linguistic research is spun as a challenge to “uni… h …
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2010-07-28 Lots of goodness: http://extensions.apple.com/
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2010-07-23 Ordered my free iPhone 4 case (http://bit.ly/cqn5UG). Ships: Sep 3. Delivers: Sep 8. Good thing I already got another one.
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2010-07-22 Epic last mountain stage at the TdF.
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2010-07-21 In the office mid-summer. Something’s wrong with the world.
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2010-07-20 Distracted by the Tour de France
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2010-07-16 @dr_agonfly that’s almost you, just missing the Borg implants.
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2010-07-13 @schar that’s what Montague’s UG system does, see also Rooth’s dissertation
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2010-07-13 @schar it can be made more bottom-up safe if you take denotations to be functions from assignments to whatever
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2010-07-13 @schar really? how so?
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2010-07-05 @planetg33k National Grid now only says “assessing damage” instead of the earlier 10pm estimate.
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2010-07-03 RT @MrsStephenFry: Wednesday TV: World Cup semi-final. Methodical, clinical Spain v thrilling, cavalier Germany. Followed by universe im …
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2010-07-01 @kvaschik The inference is certainly not always there: “You specify 5 page abstracts but may I submit a 2 page one instead?” “Yes …”
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2010-07-01 @natecha Twitter is the new fortune cookie message.
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2010-06-30 @dr_agonfly @planetg33k as I said, my upgrade order is in, but through AT&T corporate and I don’t know when they’ll deliver
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2010-06-30 @planetg33k Lucky you. I have no idea how much longer I will have to wait for mine (ordered through AT&T Corporate).
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2010-06-30 @LeslieOsborne12 what are you talking about?
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2010-06-23 @jrgwilliams England, Argentina, Portugal: Germany’s path to the final. Whoever comes out of this half of the bracket will have earned it.
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2010-06-15 Good prescription. RT @TheOnion: Aspirin And Bottle Of Bourbon A Day Reduces Awareness Of Heart Attack http://onion.com/dr7pi3
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2010-06-11 Going off the grid now until tonight so that I can watch the TiVoed world cup games without spoilers during the work day. Productivity, ho!
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2010-06-07 @themitcho Safari Reader provides built-in what used to require Instapaper or the Readability bookmarklet (http://tinyurl.com/dffdjn).
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2010-06-04 @jrgwilliams Robbie, as you know: “Football is a simple game - you play for 120 minutes and then the Germans win on penalties”.
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2010-05-20 Lame. The DOI in previous tweet is not working (yet?). Here’s the abstract: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/science.1190719.
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2010-05-20 Yikes: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1190719. Venter & co wrote watermark (incl. names & URL) into the genome of the synthetic bacteria.
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2010-05-18 @mitchoyoshitaka You know what needs an RSS feed even more than Snippets? http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz/
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2010-05-16 @schar So, now you can get that hand-cranked droid.
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2010-05-16 Classy move: http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/05/16/2394826/chomsky-denied-entry-into-israel.
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2010-05-03 @schar: Ah, @David_Beaver, always the trouble maker.
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2010-05-02 @schar thx for keeping the must is strong faith
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2010-04-30 @PhilGeek The 140 character limit does seem to constrain the level of embedding of retweeting retweets of replies.
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2010-04-30 Indeed one of 5 golden rules: http://bit.ly/d2sSqi RT @AidanMcGlynn: The Golden Rule: RT @PhilGeek: Never apologize before your presentation
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2010-04-30 @mitchoyoshitaka Sounds like the Skim developers are not planning to write an iPad app: http://bit.ly/dloJBD.
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2010-04-30 @mitchoyoshitaka @consequently: PDF annotation will be the killer iPad app for academics. I had to use pen & paper next to my iPad, ugh.
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2010-04-30 Desperate for an iPad PDF reader that let’s me make annotations. iAnnotate looks terrible and I’m reluctant to even try it.
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2010-04-26 RT @mitchoyoshitaka: Better Linguist List RSS Feeds http://mitcho.com/blog/projects/better-linguist-list-rss-feeds/ – awesome, mitcho!
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2010-04-22 @antonyeagle No, it would be Vlaanderen (English: Flanders).
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2010-04-19 Follow @zeitonline/vulkan for ash cloud info from European airlines.
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2010-04-17 @paulhagstrom so true, we need iPad apps for everything
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2010-04-13 After a few days of living with the iPad, my iPhone feels like a stripped down miniaturized iPad, useful but sort of meh.
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2010-04-12 Watching Steve McQueen in “Bullitt” via Netflix streaming HD quality through the TiVo to our new Plasma TV. Too cool to be true.
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2010-04-08 @dr_agonfly Don’t know where you’re going, but going on the pike into Boston requires leaving before 6 or after 8:30, in my experience.
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2010-04-03 @AndersJSchoubye It’s being delivered to my office at MIT, which means it won’t be in my hands until Monday or Tuesday. :(
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2010-04-03 The first ones against the wall when the revolution comes will be … the cable companies. #charter
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2010-04-03 #charter cable has the worst customer service on the planet. Very frustrating morning with them.
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2010-04-02 @schar So, don’t buy a modern car when you’re in the market for one, gotta be a vw from the 60s. Really, don’t buy any modern appliance.
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2010-03-31 @mitchoyoshitaka You’re welcome, mitcho. It was a no fun morning for me stuck in traffic. Glad it made your day better.
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2010-03-30 @schar command-tilde
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2010-03-25 Following the LSA on twitter now: @LingSocAm
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2010-03-23 @schar Maybe, we can take you instead if NYU kicked you out.
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2010-03-19 @natecha indeed
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2010-03-06 @mitchoyoshitaka Great pix, mitcho. Wish I could have been there.
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2010-03-04 @planetg33k You are really … really wrong. The man is a great singer.
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2010-03-02 @natecha @AndersJSchoubye: You have valid reasons for cramped abstracts but stressed reviewers slogging through many abstracts will balk.
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2010-03-02 @natecha When I’m annoyed, I let it out on the people who annoyed me, automatically, whether consciously or not. Be nice to reviewers!
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2010-03-01 @natecha and @AndersJSchoubye: abstracts that cram a lot into a small space automatically get low ratings from me. Be nice to reviewers!
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2010-02-15 @bweatherson Mostly I just scrub the meta-data and make pdfs out of docs. Many use non-plain text because they need symbols.
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2010-02-15 @bweatherson Yup, as editor, I strongly prefer plain text reviews. Too many reviewers leave their name in the meta-data of a pdf/doc review.
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2010-02-13 @bweatherson \thanks goes inside one of the title elements, usually like this: \title{Epistemic Modals in Context\thanks{Thanks …}}
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2010-02-12 Happy Truck Day! http://bit.ly/dwlCp2
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2010-02-10 @AndersJSchoubye Yeah, that’s CM. Just the way that the publisher wanted the submission. I never bothered to prettify it.
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2010-02-09 Very useful OS X tip: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2010020609020410
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2010-02-09 RT @daringfireball: BashFlash: http://✪df.ws/el1. Looks good as a complement to Click-to-Flash. Keeping browsing sane.
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2010-02-07 Clutch: Montana, Brady. Non-clutch: P. Manning.
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2010-02-02 @RiverGirlCancun http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
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2010-02-02 inbox zero, after six weeks of pile-up while nursing my bad back; the semester can begin
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2010-02-02 @AndersJSchoubye Congrats. Big Day!
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2010-02-02 @AndersJSchoubye Also, you should display full first names in the bibliography.
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2010-02-02 @AndersJSchoubye Pretty nice. A matter of taste, I guess. I dislike the long lines (too hard to keep track of; there’s research on this).
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2010-02-01 @AndersJSchoubye Irene’s dissertation is not out of print in the only sense that matters: it is openly accessible at http://bit.ly/9OI4sq.
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2010-02-01 @AndersJSchoubye now why would you mess with perfection (sp.cls)?
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2010-01-28 @RiverGirlCancun Emma really wants one. Maybe we’ll get one for the house and go from there. I drank the Apple Koolaid a long time ago btw.
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2010-01-28 RT @carr2n: #iPad as a leisure device. Can be wired and enjoying content, but not working. No multi-tasking, no typing. Sounds like bliss
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2010-01-28 @RiverGirlCancun I’m doing fine without Crash/Flash or multi-tasking on my iphone. The form factor is ideal for sofa, bed, train, bathroom.
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2010-01-28 “the iPhone is a shrunken stripped-down version of the iPad. The iPad is what they’ve been building toward all along” (http://bit.ly/cI3NWg)
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2010-01-28 “if you use it for just a few minutes, it becomes obvious that the iPad is not a big stretched-out iPhone” (http://bit.ly/cI3NWg)
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2010-01-27 @schar it’s the one Stallman uses: http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/
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2010-01-27 @schar time for you to hole up with a little Lemote Yeelong and write anti-government screeds in LaTeX while the rest of us enjoy our iPads?
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2010-01-27 $499 for a cool gadget. That’s a sweet price point. #iPad
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2010-01-27 I think Steve Jobs just killed the internet or at least Twitter.
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2010-01-27 Trying Rocketbox (http://www.getrocketbox.com), search plugin for Mail.app, slick, needs documentation, hope it gets MailTags integration.
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2010-01-27 @dr_agonfly Me too. Refreshing http://bit.ly/ddIL3w doesn’t seem to make it happen faster.
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2010-01-24 @planetg33k Yup, when we were in Canada we got both iPhones and E’s touch on the web for free by sharing the hotel ethernet via my MacBook.
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2010-01-19 @natecha you can always rely on the People’s Republics of Amherst and Cambridge. The rest of the state … not so much.
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2010-01-10 @jrosevear Truck day: Friday Feb 12. Pitchers and catchers report Thursday, Feb. 18.
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2010-01-10 Oh well.
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2010-01-02 Happy 01022010!
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2009-12-17 @socialiteapp Update fail: http://drp.ly/3OR1k.
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2009-12-15 @bweatherson I haven’t used dropbox. Droplr seems OK as a quick sharing service for ephemeral things. And what’s a PC?
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2009-12-15 I just started using Droplr, the coolest new app for Mac. Check it out at http://droplr.com
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2009-12-14 @kvaschik Not 16? I didn’t know.
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2009-12-03 Switched from OpenDNS to Google Public DNS, http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html, can’t tell whether it’s faster.
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2009-12-01 @kvaschik Oh fuck. How did that happen?
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2009-11-29 @AndersJSchoubye Yes, we all know who’s got the best game. Xavi, Iniesta, Messi.
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2009-11-26 Doing the last bits of cooking in our newly upgraded kitchen. Braising fennel, shallots, and chestnuts. Friends arriving soon. Happy day.
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2009-11-22 @planetg33k Not just Bose, I have computer speakers in both my offices that make annoying sounds with a cellphone nearby, almost unusable.
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2009-11-20 @lancearmstrong Amen!
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2009-11-15 “@fintelkai on Schlenker’s donkeys. Good joke about Polly. http://twitpic.com/pnpx2” -@schar: which one?
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2009-11-11 @schar I meant not much on Friday. Not at all tomorrow since it won’t have started yet.
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2009-11-11 @schar Yes, Simon, I’ll be at NELS. Not much tomorrow because of Dean-ly meetings, but pretty much throughout Saturday and Sunday (pronouns)
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2009-11-11 A second day home with a sick boy (and at least a headache myself). Oh joy.
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2009-11-10 @AndersJSchoubye One place is her “Many Quantifiers”. The basic idea goes back at least to Milsark.
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2009-11-08 @AndersJSchoubye Veltman is on his way via email.
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2009-11-08 Enjoying my new Magic Mouse. Shiny, smooth. But I agree with Brad Choate on what should be next: http://tinyurl.com/ykpwq39.
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2009-11-07 @dr_agonfly: Got it; even though you got my handle wrong.
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2009-10-24 @paulhagstrom I don’t know of a solution on the iPhone but Launchbar keeps a clipboard history (20 items?) on OS X.
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2009-10-11 Oh, well, there’s always next year.
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2009-10-09 @natecha it’s just lecture notes so don’t take too seriously. We hope that an IaD paper will grow out of it eventually. Comments welcome.
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2009-10-09 @natecha Always liked Ben’s paper (was a part-time adviser on it), but now know that the story on IaDs is wrong: http://tinyurl.com/yzuxemr
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2009-10-08 @natecha well done indeed but wrong
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2009-10-05 @jessegrosjean The link to the new dmg of QuickCursor results in an “Access Denied” message from amazon together with lots of numbers.
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2009-10-04 @planetg33k except for the free wifi. Not much of that in the 70s.
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2009-09-16 Just got the US edition of Aifric Campbell’s “The Semantics of Murder”. First time I’m in the acknowledgments of a novel.
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2009-09-14 Going to teach something I don’t quite understand. In many ways, the best kind of teaching. But also nerve-wracking.
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2009-09-13 Made a lavish brunch for 30+ of my cohousing neighbors. How is your morning?
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2009-09-11 @planetg33k Check out Mail Act-On and MailTags: http://indev.ca. I use them and Nostalgy4Mail seems to do just a subset of what they do.
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2009-09-10 @rezzz There’s already a Mail Act-On update that fixes the problem with 10.6.1: http://bit.ly/MEXOI
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2009-09-10 As Tommy Lee Jones said in Men in Black: ‘Great, now I’ve got to buy the White Album again’. This week’s indulgence: The Beatles Box Set.
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2009-09-10 Day of working from home starts with taking daughter to PT for her wrist tendonitis; that poor girl hasn’t been injury free for a year.
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2009-09-09 First meeting of our seminar. Just waiting for the green tea to steep before walking over. Gotta be caffeinated to teach.
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2009-09-09 Happy 09/09/09 everybody!
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2009-09-03 “CIA Leaks” (written with Thony Gillies) was just declared by Philosopher’s Annual to be one of the ten best articles in philosophy in 2008.
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2009-09-02 Why don’t kids like school? Well, duh: http://bit.ly/FFvAF
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2009-09-02 Blog post about a long-awaited special event in our lives: http://bit.ly/yDGdW
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2009-08-30 Going to see Julie & Julia with San while the kids are out back-to-school shopping with the grandparents.
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2009-08-30 8 Miles at 11:03. Training for the half on 10/11 is still on track. Knock on HardiePlank.
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2009-08-27 7 mile speed workout: 3 fast (for me, not you Jason), 4 slow (even for me) for warm-up, in-between jogging intervals, and cool down.
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2009-08-25 2 fast miles (well, fast for me) at the track; sports drink du jour: Otter Creek Copper Ale (a passable approximation to Altbier) in hammock
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2009-08-24 @dr_agonfly May the force be with you.
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2009-08-23 Getting older? Dreamed about losing most of my hair. Back spasms halfway through my 7 mile training run this morning.
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2009-08-22 First run with Emma since her stress fracture, at the Hudson high school track, talking about doing a 5K together later this year (Nov?).
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2009-08-21 The cats just caught a mouse in the house. I guess that’s country living.
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2009-08-20 first day back on campus in a long time means lunch from @cloverfoodtruck: chickpea fritter sandwich and rosemary french fries … yum!
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2009-08-19 is not enjoying having to work in Word for Dean-ish writing projects (collaborating with admin people who would faint if I mentioned LaTeX).
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2009-08-18 The “No Wii Games Today” verdict seems a bit tough on the boys, but them getting the living room all sweaty in this heat is not OK with me.
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2009-08-18 has to roust his son from bed so that he can go get his annual check-up.
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2009-08-16 9.58 against a headwind
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2009-08-16 Trying out our new Wii Sports Resort with Wii MotionPlus. Our living room is getting sweaty.
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2009-08-14 Thanks to structured procrastination (TM - John Perry), I actually got some stuff done today.
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2009-08-13 Early run in the Berkeley hills, now one last breakfast of huevos con chorizo at Cafe Med, then it’s time to leave, coming home on JetBlue.
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2009-08-12 Going to a Japanese fusion restaurant for last dinner in CA and then bowing out while others go see Julie and Julia (I plan to go with San).
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2009-08-12 It already appears to be time to plan this fall’s seminar. Yikes.
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2009-08-11 Some pictures from our weekend in Napa: http://bit.ly/rChZM
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2009-07-28 @RiverGirlCancun Driver’s permit at 15 !?! They shouldn’t allow kids to drive until they’re 25.
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2009-07-24 @dr_agonfly : keeping my fingers crossed on the job front for you
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2009-07-23 @seesmic: installing 0.4.1, i get: “The application could not be installed because the AIR file is damaged.” i downloaded again: same thing
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2009-07-21 is cold looking at the rain outside but ruled out putting some rum in this afternoon’s cup of green tea
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2009-07-21 @RiverGirlCancun Yes #TdF was fun today. Many more climbs tomorrow.
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2009-07-21 up early, TdF on in the background, preparing lectures on modality for the LSA institute in Berkeley
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2009-07-20 Two astronomy iPhone apps with sales today: http://bit.ly/HxT7R ($2.99) and http://bit.ly/cvF9c (free).
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2009-07-20 my keyboard is not producing i’s and k’s. How did i write this? Copy and paste from other texts. Not a long term solution!
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2009-07-20 Last week at home before P joins E at sleep-away camp and I go to Berkeley to teach modality with Sabine at the LSA Institute.
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2009-07-17 Final version of Shatner paper just submitted: http://tinyurl.com/lsp8xn.
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2009-07-17 My wife is home from work!
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2009-07-16 Trying out Seesmic Desktop, a combined client for Facebook and Twitter