May 2010
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Grapefruit Mint Pimm's
Sunning themselves poolside were several bros. Their skin was slick with some combination of sweat and tanning oil. They had blow-outs and bad tattoos and were bragging about how many Klonopin they had eaten the night before.
One of them sidled up to my chaise and offered me some vodka. I told him thanks, but that I already had my own drink. Intrigued, he looked into my cup- not a cup,...
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“Amplitude normalization was achieved by subtracting the mean and dividing by the...”
– Smith, A., Goffman, L., Zelaznik, H. N., Yin, G., & McGillem, C. (1995). Spatiotemporal stability and patterning and patterning of speech movement sequences Experimental Brain Research, 104, 493-501.
This is the explanation of how to time- and amplitude-normalize a set of waveforms (sound...
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Oh Hey There: LaTeX Bookmarks →
It’s been a long time since I formatted something with TeX. Thank goodness for Tristan’s helpful links.
And if anyone has a nice APA style thesis template they want to share, that’d be rad.
Recently added links are asterisked. Last updated: Feb. 11, 2010.
Linguistics:
Penn’s TeX/LaTeX documentation
LaTeX For Linguists
LaTeX For Gradlings
LaTeX For Linguists...
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My dad has the new Joanna Newsom album in his car
This is the same dad who late-night drunk-dials me from bluegrass jams in the East Village and the LES. He has also been spotted wearing his Notorious BIG and CCCP t-shirts to the gym.
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Words wholly related: sit and set
Tristan and I were nerding out- as we often do- and the topic turned - as it often does- to language. Specifically, we were talking about the semantics of verbs. I asked him what he knew about verbs that seem to come in transitive/intransitive pairs and are phonologically similar, like sit/set and lay/lie.
My theory was that the these pairs originally had one root and that the vowel was...
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The Fruit Bats, “Need It Just A...
Grisly Pear, NYC
Bluegrass is alive and well in the city.
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Missing dog: Reward if found
Well, I looked everywhere, and Angel really isn’t here.
He didn’t look up from his kitchen pillow or saunter to the door when I walked in with my suitcase. It was late, east coast time, so he could have been dozing. Usually, his collar would have jingled when he lifted his head or shifted in his sleep. But the kitchen was quiet. The fire alarm beeped to announce that it was...
SFO has been deserted for the past two hours
Luckily, I found a wheelchair and doing donuts at Gate 12 is keeping me amused.
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Sky Harbor International Airport, Phoenix, Arizona
A lot of suspicious-looking individuals milling around. Fortunately, most of them appear to be leaving the country.
On my way to Mexico, San Francisco and then New...
Photos to follow.
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And free pints at Southern Sun!
My love affair with today continues…,
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Hurray!
Rar and I are done with our first semester of grad school! Our whole cohort is celebrating by drinking bellinis in the break room. I love my life!
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The head of my department just waved to me from...
If I wasn’t fully sold on pursuing a PhD before, I am now.
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Missing NYC...
You know how you panic when you get a late-night phone call from your parents? Especially when theyre far away and their health is fragile?
Well I’m probably going to stop panicking because this is the second time my dad has drunk dialed me from a raging bluegrass jam in the East Village. As in second time TONIGHT.
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A Timely Global Mosaic, Created by All of Us -... →
I think this is a nice idea. Sunday, May 2nd, at 1500 Universal/Greenwich Meant Time (10 am Eastern Time; 8 am Mountain Time) snap a picture and send it here:
submit.nytimes.com/moment
