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In case anyone wonders what I’ve been doing lately, here are some pics to give a clue. Hint: I like to drive.
Oh, I’m also trying to pick up the pace on my thesis.
A friend sends this along in email.
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Some spam is just too good to keep to one’s self.
Michael Gilleland over at Laudator Temporis Acti highlights a poem by Hugo Wolf, showing its German and, ultimately, its Spanish origins. It’s interesting to see the differences in tone and cadence for the verse in each language.
Of course, summer isn’t over for another month and a half, and in northern California, the weather often feels summerish until November, but I can hardly believe that the fall semester starts in another week.Must work faster on my thesis.
I’ve been distracted with other activities this week, which might explain the scant blog posts. Here are a few things from other blogs to wet your whistle.
That’s it for now.
The latest ancient-medieval carnivalesque is up, courtesy of Gillian Polack.
“[T]he mob of the sluggards has so grown in numbers that unless there are at least a modest few like yourself to defend the exact use of the language of Latium from the rust of vulgar barbarisms, we shall in a short time be lamenting its extinction and annihilation, so sadly will all the bright ornaments of noble expression be dulled by the slovenliness of the mob.” — Sidonius, writing in the fifth century, to his friend Hisparius, Ep. 2.10.1. (Translation W. B. Anderson, Loeb Classical Library).
Well, I did it. Went and got me one of them iPhones. The WordPress admin pages aren’t terribly well-suited to the device, but I think I’ve figured out how to post an entry from the phone.
It’s the best phone/iPod/PDA I’ve owned, in spite of a few annoyances. One dissappointment is the poor interaction with the Bluetooth hands-free feature in my Audi A3. The phone and car make a connection when I start the car, but the connection is unstable and usually breaks in five or ten or fifteen minutes. I filed a bug report with Apple this morning, and hope they can and will produce a software fix for it. A BMW owner said he has seen this problem, and found that by disabling the phone’s WiFi while in the car, he could get a stable Bluetooth connection. I’ll give that a try the next time I’m out and about.
Now for full disclosure. I wrote most of this post from the iPhone, but had to finish it from my laptop. I can’t copy and paste on the iPhone, which makes adding a lengthy URL to the post a difficult chore. Some of the controls on the Web interface for WordPress administration are invisible on the iPhone, too. Just the price of being an early adopter, as they say.
Update Turning off WiFi while in the car didn’t fix the Bluetooth hands-free operation bug. A search of the web for iPhone bugs leads me to believe that Bluetooth support is one of the most unreliable of features on the phone.
Christian Johnson shares his thoughts on some of the best “geek movies” ever, from the year 1982. The post brings back memories of my salad days in college, but 1982 seems like only yesterday. Standing in line for Star Trek II (“Khaaan!!”), Poltergeist, and Tron — I saw a lot of movies that year, I guess. Still haven’t seen E.T. though.
Having mentioned the impending doom of Antioch College twice already, it seems worth pointing out this article by George Will on the college’s fate. Thanks to the Cranky Professor for the pointer.
To be honest, in spite of my romantic recollections of driving past the Antioch campus on a warm summer day, the college was always a laughing stock in my ‘hood.