http://www.nowhereville.org Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:22:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just sent an email something like this to a student. The student in question disagreed with three sound transcriptions, and wanted a credit of the three points that I had docked for the errors. As evidence the student cited an online dictionary which gave transcriptions that differed from mine. Of ... http://www.nowhereville.org/2008/10/02/carrying-the-scientific-torch/   http://www.nowhereville.org/2008/09/09/apocalyptic-science-fiction-novel-cover/ Resident Advisor will provide you with an hour or so of nice music every week, good stuff in the evening. JWZ has an excellent weekly mixtape as well, more of the 'reckless driving' variety.   http://www.nowhereville.org/2008/08/19/your-musical-rights/ . . . we'd like to habeas your corpus unconstitutionally real quick. The Federal government's terrorist watch list has hit one million records, per their own admission. This is a million names, not a million people; names like 'Robert Johnson' mean that tens of thousands of Americans with that name are ... http://www.nowhereville.org/2008/07/17/mr-smith-would-you-step-this-way-please/  Perhaps tomorrow.  http://www.nowhereville.org/2008/07/17/im-sorry-the-border-is-closed-today/ From the taking-it-a-bit-too-far department: Probably you know that a European (ISO) A0 sheet of paper is one square meter, and that successive sizes are half the preceding, so that an A1 is an A0 folded in half, down to A7; A4 is the standard 'letter' paper. The standard is very consistent, ... http://www.nowhereville.org/2008/07/17/keeping-things-regular/     http://www.nowhereville.org/2008/07/14/courtyard-from-the-salone-at-the-american-academy-in-rome/ My colleagues will be delighted to learn that Romans voice coronals and velars intervocalically in rapid speech (not that they have any other setting), though geminates are more resistant. ʌmɛrikɐ -> ʌmɛrigɐ Complex onsets are allowed, complex codas are tolerated if sonorant enough, but discouraged. And the mozzarella is really beyond comprehension. http://www.nowhereville.org/2008/07/03/roman-italian/ Created by necessity, named by the roommate. * 1 1/2 oz absinthe * 4 oz tonic water (decent tonic water, not too cloying) * Peychaud's bitters http://www.nowhereville.org/2008/06/28/saturnalia/ I'd like to introduce you to an old friend of mine, Salmonella typhi. S and I first became acquainted when I was traveling in eastern Turkey in 2003, and we quickly became fast friends or even closer yet. I still don't remember exactly how we met, but it seemed like ... http://www.nowhereville.org/2008/06/24/its-complicated/