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For more information on what this is all about, see this post. そ (‘so’) Say it is right or wrong. Purely it is right. Say it is right or wrong. Purely it is right. Let it go ぽ (‘po’) Poppupanko Besides, it is popular There is a mileage in the midst of a milestone in…
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Mark Liberman’s post on recursive neural network poetry inspired me to make some poetry of my own. The following are “recursively induced hallucinations” created when you repeatedly enter the same 1-3 characters into a machine translator like Google Translate. Some languages, like Japanese, Korean, and Hebrew, work very well for this; others, like English and Hawaiian, don’t.…
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I’ve written a short story (under a “pen name,” Eliza Montgomery) called Marcy and Eloise. It’s available on Amazon for $0.99 or for free if you have Kindle Unlimited. The story follows a few hours in the lives of two women who’ve taken very different paths through life––paths not necessarily of their own choosing. Each woman…
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A big post on the so-called “Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative” is forthcoming. A short story should be published in the next couple of days on Amazon. I now have an Instagram account @elizabethmainly, same handle as on Twitter. I mostly post black and white photographs. Today is my birthday. Grapes photograph by Luke Jones, CC-BY…
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Joh Fredersen threw a glance at the clock. But the hands of the giantess stood at an impossible time. – Thea von Harbou, Metropolis During an earthquake, the ground sometimes moves like a wave. People who see this sometimes freeze up or collapse, because it violates everything they take for granted about the physical universe. I think of that…
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I hate “best for the kids” arguments, not because it’s a horrible concept (obviously not), but because these arguments are often used in cases where a) it’s a judgment call with good arguments on both sides, and b) the adults are just going to do whatever they want anyway. There is always a way to rationalize…
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I have no high horse to mount when I criticize other people’s grammar. There is no grammatical sin I have not committed, usually in the middle of a cover letter or some other important document. So this isn’t an indictment. “I am not commenting, merely pointing to a fact,” as Orwell might have said. As…
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It’s too hot. Sitting up straight hurts––much better to sit in a chair that leans back. No appetite until about 6 PM. Want to be alone, preferably inside a freezer. I have no idea what my life is going to look like in a week, maybe a week and a half on the outside. It’s…
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