separated at germination?

Posted on Wednesday, 2009 June 03 by Anton

Okay, the mascot of OurWaterOurWorld isn’t quite as similar to Bob the Angry Flower as I thought, but still …

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what’s in a name?

Posted on Monday, 2009 June 01 by Anton

“You enjoyed Lost in Austen, didn’t you?”

“Sure. I also enjoy Austen in Lost.”

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life imitates embryonic blog-post

Posted on Wednesday, 2009 May 13 by Anton

Pillow brought home a little brown snake, about a foot long – the size of the biggest earthworms I’ve ever seen. I put it out in the grass, for the cycle to begin anew.

A few hours later, as I was composing the above in my head, I saw the same(?) snake in the living-room again, now dead from obvious trauma.

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spam dialect

Posted on Wednesday, 2009 May 13 by Anton

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readme

Posted on Saturday, 2009 May 02 by Anton

I’ve redone this site’s front page to include an appeal for help in finding work, and incidentally to remove some clutter.

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unexpected aspects of asymmetry

Posted on Friday, 2009 May 01 by Anton

My left arm is very sore today, making me notice how many little things I habitually do with my ‘wrong’ hand. I wonder whether this says something about my brain.

They say women’s hemispheres are less specialized; maybe my partial ambidexterity, the weak dominance of my left eye, and the sparseness of my body hair are all related.

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whether ’tis nobler in the mind to doubly miss the point

Posted on Thursday, 2009 April 16 by Anton

A little incident in folk grammar, funny to me at least. I wrote a sentence containing

. . . which led to reconstructing in my mind . . .

because

. . . which led to mentally reconstructing . . .

seemed wrong: everyone knows you don’t put an adverb between to and a verb form! (You’ll note that to reconstructing is not an infinitive, so the ‘rule’ does not apply.)

When I became consciously aware of that confused subconscious reasoning, I changed it to the latter.

I wonder how many now-standard grammatical features we owe to such extensions of misunderstanding.

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