Wednesday Apr 25, 2007

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Dear Minnie Driver:

Dear God, you are painfully sexy.

Love,
SignalNoise

So, the wife and I are have been watching Minnie's new show The Riches on FX lately. And it's good; Eddie Izzard also stars. It's not great - like if it wasn't on at 9pm on Mondays, a time I'm usually free and have no other shows on, I'm not sure I would change my habits to watch it. But since I've got it free, I do. And a large part of what keeps me coming back is Minnie Driver. Not only is she the hawtness, she's also great fun to watch as the pissy matriarch of her con artist, "gyspy" family. She also does a totally sweet Southern drawl.

In that line, I want to go down on the *official record* as being opposed to people from the South losing their accents. In fact, I'm *categorically* against anyone losing their accent or abandoning local colloquialisms. I love colorful language, and it bums me out that there is such a stigma against "non-standard" English. That's why I keep alive some of my dad's favorite phrases, which have a very rural, mid-American vibe:


  • Slicker than snot.

  • Better than a stick in the eye.

  • Son of a buck.



    • Totally unrelated tangent: Tonight my wife and I had a debate over who was better: Captain Planet or Superman. Seriously - can you believe this is even an issue? *Obviously* Supes is the way to go. She kept falling back on something about "'captain' being a prestigious rank." And I was all like, "Bitch, please - the last son of Krypton is in charge of the *Justice League.*" It was serious, academic stuff.

    This is perhaps the most random journal I've done in a while.

    To add to the random: I have the worst time with the SG commands. It kills me that "forward slash" is used to close out a command, since in LaTeX you use "back slash" to enter commands. It fucks me all up.

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    emperor_norton:
    Glad to be back. smile

    "Coffee and Pie, Oh My!"

    Nice quote.
    gainsbarre68:
    Thanks, I will. Not much travel, I'm afraid, but I'm going to be in Germany, so I guess that's something. Once I get there I'll stay put and do research, at least until July.

    Classical Text Editor is something that's in heavy use in Medieval Studies. Along with Tuestep, it's one of the two main programs for putting together a critical edition with the attendant apparatus. On the Cusanus edition we used Tuestep (developed in Tuebigen) but CTE was developed by Austrians at the Medieval Center in Wien. It's the better of the two, I think, insofar as you can teach yourself how to use it. With Tuestep you really need a course to learn it.

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