Monthly Archive: June 2011

Doctor visits, who needs’em?

I recently had another run in with the American Medical system and it reminded me how much I dislike visiting Doctors. I have nothing against doctors but lets lay out how the experience came about and what happened with a little bit of reactionary text thrown in for good measure. First off, the issue I was seeing a doctor for...

Linguistic Institute 2011

I’m a member of the committee that is organizing the linguistic institute being held here in Boulder July 7th through August 10th. I’ve been handling a lot of e-mails, making sure a few dozen of the hundred+ incoming visiting faculty get the information and answers they need for their courses, and apparently designing flyers as well. Thanks to Henry Koren...

Chrome and Firefox

I just realized that on my new laptop (new as of two months ago) I don’t have firefox installed. I wanted to preview a webpage I’m working on in another broweser so I typed into the windows app search bar “fire..” and got windows firewall. How did this happen? Usually the first thing I do when I get a new...

Pandora brought FM Radio back into my life

Today I realized that after living in Boulder for almost 10 months I still have no idea what radio stations I should or would like to listen to. Why? I had a 6 CD changer in my last car, and my new(er) car now has an aux input (Pandora). You’d think that I would know at least one station, but...

Writing groups are awesome

Recently I started writing an actual novel. I’ve had some experience writing short stories and volunteered at The Leading Edge Magazine while I was in college for my undergrad so I’ve read a lot of slush. However, despite all this, and taking a class from my favorite author (Brandon Sanderson) on writing I have never produced my own novella, much...