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chucklessmith

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I'm easing in on creating a presence here, so apologies for the lack of content. Please bear with me as I consider jumping / tripping over the fail whale. Learning something every day, and laughing early and often! Following my arrow.

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chucklessmith, to random
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Type 1 diabetes is “oh fuck, the place we thought was open for lunch is closed until 4 so … shit.”

And also

“But I just shot up with insulin so, margaritas and fries?”

I mean worse things have happened.

chucklessmith,
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@grrrr_shark There’s a heap of stuff to love at this place, but in front of us right now we have some top shelf goodness. 🥰

chucklessmith,
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@grrrr_shark let’s just have a better weekend than this shit. Sound good? I’m in. :)

grrrr_shark, to random
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Oh no. Have fallen into the trap of an album I still really love.

It's a good album in any event, but Duncan Sheik's eponymous debut album is firmly settled in a couple of points in my timeline where I listened to it constantly, and it brings me back to some of myself.

chucklessmith,
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@grrrr_shark It is a very captures-a-point-or-mood-in-time kinda record, innit?

chucklessmith, to random
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What's it called when the lyrics mimic the melody? There's a word for this. Cohen did it in “Hallelujah” -- “It goes like this, the fourth the fifth, the minor fall the major lift" -- the chords are literally the 4 / 5 / 6m as he says them. What in the hell is that called?

chucklessmith, to random
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“Cowboys are frequently, secretly fond of each other” is a hell of an example as shit that I wrote about in my thesis (with respect to adverbial ordering and how that gets reconciled in Minimalist Theory syntax, you know the X’ type).

Going to have to consult Ernst and Cinque on this matter.

chucklessmith,
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@qurlyjoe @GayDeceiver Eats shoots and leaves! Lynne Truss!

chucklessmith,
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@qurlyjoe @GayDeceiver There's a thing called a "garden path" sentence, which is like (and this is stupid but it is the canonical example) "The horse raced past the barn fell.”

Where the linear semantics of the utterance makes sense right up until the very last moment and then the whole thing falls apart because of the last word / phrase. They're really fun and happen all the time in the waves hands actual world.

chucklessmith,
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@qurlyjoe @GayDeceiver Vonnegut also wrote a tender little bit about how the semicolon (;) is a hermaphrodtie transvestite ... well hell, let me get it. shuffles about No, I can't find it. But the important part there is that it's important you never meet your heroes. And if you do, and they've said some dumb shit that's wrong, be prepared to kick them in the pussy.

mloxton, to random
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So Alabama is executing someone today using nitrogen asphyxia. This has never been done before, and they seem to have no idea what the experience will be like, but have ruled that it does not amount to "cruel and unusual"

chucklessmith,
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@grrrr_shark @mloxton It's truly spectacular how much heavy lifting they're willing to allow the conjunction to do in this case. Without question, it's “unusual”, but they're just gonna let it slide because “cruel and" is mixed in there, and I guess we can't know a priori if this is in fact cruel, so you crazy kids just go ahead and have a good time.

Fritinancy, to random
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The New York Times covered the American Dialect Society’s word-of-the-year vote and miraculously included the winner—“enshittification”—in its unexpurgated form. | cc @pluralistic (Gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15/crosswords/linguistics-word-of-the-year.html?unlocked_article_code=1.N00.wDo9.AZPARUsRKWKl&smid=url-share

chucklessmith,
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@Fritinancy @pluralistic The ADS WotY election each year is by far the best, most reliable pop-ling moment of the LSA Annual Meeting. Also a fun respite from the goings-on elsewhere over the weekend. I am glad it has not become enshittified.

seldo, to random
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My fellow 40somethings, rejoice! You no longer have to pretend that you really want be out until midnight tonight like you did in your 30s. Get to bed at 9pm and be smug about it.

chucklessmith,
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@seldo We were just giggling about how we were having pizza and sparkling wine at checks watch 7:30 PM and staying in, and it's very much pretty great.

fay, to linguistics
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Linguist life is starting from wanting to translate "no one is going to school tomorrow" and ending up reading ten papers on empirical evidence for government and binding constraints

#linguistics

chucklessmith,
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@fay @grrrr_shark Good Lord, I feel seen.

chucklessmith, to random
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I've spent my life compiling shit that I'd use if I were ever to teach a linguistics class. But if we're gonna get shot at, fuck you.

chucklessmith,
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“If I were ever” — that’s the subjunctive, no? I mean it’s a subjunctive within a conditional but still. Yeah? Mood, man. All this time we piss and moan about tense and aspect, and then mood elbows its fucking way in. (I am a tense and aspect man, in case we’re looking for hot dates.)

chucklessmith, to random
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Related: Somewhere around here, I do have aircheck of my radio show mentioning the DVD re-release of Airplane! and hinting that might be a good Christmas gift for me. And my family came through! I did indeed get the Anniversary Edition DVD, which came with a coupon you could fill out and mail in with some sort of postage, and receive for yourself your own inflatable Otto Pilot.

Fucking yes, I sent in that coupon. I never did get my inflatable Otto Pilot. That last part makes me sad, but 🤷‍♂️

chucklessmith,
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@grrrr_shark I have definitely been to a dinner with this twink. But it's not him by many decades. Anyway, thought that was funny.

i_lost_my_bagel, to random
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hello mastofucks

coming at you from the last good version of windows

chucklessmith,
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@i_lost_my_bagel ngl I do miss Win2K. (.... now I'm wondering if I can dig up some old MS CDs… For research purposes, natch.)

chucklessmith, to random
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I will admit, when I saw Steve Scalise introducing Mike Johnson after Johnson won the Speaker vote, I did immediately ask myself “Now who the hell is that Stephen Colbert lookin' SOB in the background?”

Answer: Uh, That's Mike Johnson!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGFesypJLc4&t=125s

grrrr_shark, to random
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I really enjoyed this, precisely because it's one of my favourite songs, even if it's super-80s and a bit cheesy.

The complexity is what makes it good - it really works. (And I somehow feel redeemed in liking it for that, because I am a loser ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnRxTW8GxT8

chucklessmith,
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@grrrr_shark This is excellent. Somewhere I did read an intensive data study thing on key changes in general (particularly at, e.g., the final chorus of a pop song) and so so many songs in the past have done that, but in the last like 2-3 decades, it's almost entirely absent from hit pop music. Will see if I can locate that somewhere. But yeah, that song is wild; like it goes maybe eight bars at a stretch max before oops! Including right in the middle of the chorus. Pretty rad :D

chucklessmith,
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@grrrr_shark On key changes: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/30/1139707179/where-did-all-the-key-changes-go

https://tedium.co/2022/11/09/the-death-of-the-key-change/

Should you have a chance, think you'll totally enjoy the tedium.

tubetime, (edited ) to random
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vintage 1984 ad for 3 1/4" disks. no, not 3 1/2" -- these are slightly smaller.

chucklessmith,
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@tubetime I’m very much envious of a plastic sleeve allowing me to carry five three-and-one-quarter inch floppy diskettes in my pocket. LOOK OUT YALL COMING AT YOU!

Jeremiah, to SmartHome
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I wrote Hue to voice my displeasure about its cloud service becoming mandatory for my home smart lights.

They replied it was to "advance security".

I replied: The most secure option is for my data to never leave the devices in my home. Duplicating my data to your servers and enabling your servers to remotely control devices my home inherently is less secure.

They politely told me to fuck off.

I will remove all Hue lights when I remodel.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/09/22/philips-hue-force-users-upload-data-to-cloud/

#smartHome #leafComputing

chucklessmith,
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@Jeremiah Will be fun to see what the Pi-Hole does in response. Also this makes me wonder — guess there is a Hue bulb or two somewhere in my (vast very big Bay Area apartment haha) ecosystem. Why the hell do I even have the bridge plugged in?? It may be just for the lone color-changing bulb? LOL

chucklessmith,
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@Jeremiah yeah. I think to their detriment they’re going to see lots of folks like me going “but wait, I don’t even use or like your shit”. Ay yay yay. 🤷‍♂️

chucklessmith, to random
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In defense of everyone involved, you're working for Donald Trump? Good and goddamn sure you're drinking on a Monday morning: first time, last time, or simply as a prophylactic measure.

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