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February 18, 2005
comments enabled! (also a few postscripts)
After some more pondering and investigating, I've decided to enable comments. Leaving your name and email address on comments is optional. Since my blog isn't being archived by any search engines (due to a robots.txt exclusion), there shouldn't be any reason for a spammer to be interested in spamming my blog. We'll see how it goes. I reserve the right to close comments at anytime in case I get spammed, and I reserve the right to delete all past comments in case I get so much spam that I don't have the energy to sort out the good from the bad.
I've taken off some time from blogging to get some work done and to mourn (unfortunately from a distance) the passing of my grandfather. It wasn't sudden, so we had time to adjust.
Postscripts to recent posts:
- More on the art I saw Sunday (the most recent photos), in case you're interested: http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/11/102.html
- In the picture of the physics equipment, notice daughter Katya's artwork hanging on the wall.
- It's been brought to my attention that the past tense of "to drag" is "dragged", not "drug". I prefer to see this not as an error but as a sign that I'm on the cutting edge of the development of English morphology. Strong (irregular) verbs have been going out of style for hundreds of years, but now they're coming back! Today I dive, but yesteday I ___. See, trendy people like me say "dove"!
- I figured out how to set my SMS messages to English. It's a different setting from the interface it turns out. It also turns out that it's a lot cheaper to send messages in Latin letters than Cyrillic due to the encoding used (more bytes for Cyrillic letters).
Heard in a crowded subway escalator in downtown Moscow: "Товарищи [Comrades]! ... (long pause while everyone tried to figure out whose voice carried so well) ... Не хотели коммунистов [You didn't want communists] ... а получили террористов [so instead you got terrorists]!" I think the voice came from a pretty average-looking babushka riding with some friends.
It turns out the Russian State Library has a great need for my help on all sorts of digital projects, so it looks like I'll be spending more time there than with any of my originally planned host institutions. Oh, well—I'm flexible!
Otherwise, I'll be filling some of my free time by volunteering at the American Center.
Posted by kshawkin at February 18, 2005 01:48 PM
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Posted by: Kevin at February 18, 2005 01:59 PM
Enjoyed reading the first stanzas of the Slovo o Polku Kevina.
Keep 'em coming.
Posted by: Anonymous at February 18, 2005 05:45 PM
Kev, I'm sorry to hear about your grandfather. My condolences to you and your family.
As for dragged, dived, hanged, pleaded, etc., I always thought that was unique to the metropolitan area of our birth. Perhaps the Jewel of the Patapsco River Drainage Basin is more on the cutting edge of things than for which I gave it credit.
Posted by: Jou at February 18, 2005 06:30 PM
On mid-Atlantic dialects, see Bay's Dialects Slowly Dying.
Posted by: Kevin at February 20, 2005 10:41 AM