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Entries from April 2007

919 pages.

April 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Today, the Linguist List posted that folks at MIT have reproduced Noam Chomsky’s Original 1955-56 Thesis in PDF format.  They found the slowly deteriorating microfilm in some Harvard archive and decided to scan it and post it.
The dissertation is 919 pages long.  Nine hundred and nineteen pages.  919 pages before computers.  Before word processors.  Before […]

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Confucius say…

April 19th, 2007 · No Comments

“Let there be magic in your smile and firmness in your handshake.”

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I’m a grad student. I have TONS of issues.

April 11th, 2007 · No Comments


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You know what the Easter Bunny is doing the other 364 days of the year?

April 8th, 2007 · 2 Comments

…KICKING ASS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPb0po2jzfg

Happy Easter

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Confucius say…

April 6th, 2007 · No Comments

You have an unusually magnetic personality

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Confucius say…

April 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Ignorance never settles a question.

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Confucius say…

April 4th, 2007 · No Comments

You have a yearning for perfection.

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