practicum

Posted on Saturday, 2004 April 10 by Anton

At a Thai restaurant just now, the staff were playing Scrabble. That’s one way to practice a language!

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and a fine shin it was too

Posted on Saturday, 2004 April 10 by Anton

On February 29, I whacked my shin on a truck’s tow-bar, making a deep dent but drawing almost no blood. Today, six weeks later, the scab came off. (The dent is still there.) I wonder, did the wound heal more slowly because of the relative scarcity of blood on the front of my shin? (Russell says yes.)

November: The spot is still discolored.

September 2005: Guess it’s permanent: the first of my scars to be so precisely dated for posterity.

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To Live

Posted on Friday, 2004 April 09 by Anton

I bought a DVD of Kurosawa’s 生きる Ikiru, inferring from the presence of English text on the package that the show would be subtitled. Oops!

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hint: parallelism

Posted on Monday, 2004 April 05 by Anton

Topix.net Weblog: The Secret Source of Google’s Power

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hi, Jo!

Posted on Sunday, 2004 April 04 by Anton

Is JoAnne Schmitz yanking my chain? She linked here — on April 1.

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bring enough gun

Posted on Thursday, 2004 April 01 by Anton

One thing that bugs me about Buffy is her habit of going under-armed. In The Prom (3:20), why did she take itty-bitty arrows rather than a dwarvish axe to hunt the hell-hounds? In Shadow (5:8), why didn’t Giles bring a couple of sabers, or a shotgun? Did he expect Buffy to pummel the cobra-monster to death? (That she did pummel it to death is beside the point.)

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i hate when that happens

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 March 30 by Anton

Larry Trask, a well of linguistic erudition and good humor, has died.

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