{"id":639,"date":"2007-04-23T23:13:12","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T04:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/?p=639"},"modified":"2012-12-09T00:40:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T06:40:50","slug":"it-was-shorts-and-mini-skirts-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/2007\/04\/23\/it-was-shorts-and-mini-skirts-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"It was shorts and mini-skirts weather."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day in review:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>R.E.M. is over; the Reverend Horton Heat is up &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Boris Yeltsin is dead (heart failure?)<\/li>\n<li>On this day in 1945 the U.S. Army &#8220;liberated&#8221; the Flossenb\u00fcrg concentration camp in Bavaria; they were 16 days too late for theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the conspirators in the failed plot on Hitler&#8217;s life.<\/li>\n<li>Heroes returned to NBC this evening. Peter lived (as expected); Isaac finally died; Claire met more family; and Mr. Lindermann is turning into an interesting yet twisted individual.<\/li>\n<li>I have an episode (3&#215;04) of Doctor Who to watch.<\/li>\n<li>At Fair Trade I wrote a bit &#8212; was working on Bonhoeffer &#8212; and it turns out Julie was there, so we conducted her little interview for her project. We contemplated the identity of Mr. Verb (is it Joe? is it a multi-person project &#8230; a group pulling the strings? is it another linguist?), she showed me Matt&#8217;s blog, and she showed me her own new project (under a different name, so I won&#8217;t post it here). We also discussed the new Hofstadter (sort of) and she gave me a few good linguistics leads on (de)grammaticalization &#8212; Raimo Antilla, for example. Brian Joseph, another.<\/li>\n<li>I read some more Hofstadter.<\/li>\n<li>I baked some brownies and finished a bottle of red.<\/li>\n<li>Leena called and we chatted for half an hour or so.<\/li>\n<li>My checking account is closer to empty than I would like; savings? fine.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll be finishing collecting <em>Avengers: Earth&#8217;s Mightiest Heroes II<\/em> soon; I haven&#8217;t read them (or the first series) yet &#8212; I think they&#8217;re limited series of stand-alone stories. Most Avengers tales these days are large, drawn-out, cross-over affairs &#8230; big EVENTS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My students wrote their 2nd exam; now I have a shitload of stufff to grade.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Happy, Joy Joy.<\/p>\n<p>As Eliane would say &#8230; not that I expect to see her there.<\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.multivax.com\/last_question.html\">The Last Question<\/a> &#8212; a 1956 Isaac Asimov story. The telling is straight-forward, almost more thought-experiment than anything else, but it is poetic in the end. The first two sections parallel Jack Chalker&#8217;s <em>The Birth of Flux &amp; Anchor<\/em> &#8230; that is, the needs and drives.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tass-survey.org\/richmond\/answers\/snrisks.txt\">Will a Nearby Supernova Endanger Life on Earth?<\/a><\/em> by Michael Richmond, last updated April 8, 2005<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kXvLQd3JJLo\">Colbert v Penn: Metaphor-Off<\/a><\/em> &#8230; hilarious Sean Penn vs. Stephen Colbert stuff &#8230; with a former poet laureate.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/11\/dining\/111brex.html?ex=1177473600&amp;en=3fd0bab4403e170d&amp;ei=5070\">Supernatual Brownies<\/a><\/em> &#8212; I basically went or a half-batch. Or something similar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day in review:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[112,418,96,130,419,420,107,150,344,168],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myspace","tag-baking","tag-boris-yeltsin","tag-coffee","tag-comics","tag-douglas-hofstadter","tag-isaac-asimov","tag-music","tag-teaching-2","tag-television","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}