jmenn

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by jmenn 7y ago
He was, by all modern standards, a rather terrible writer, though _Pelham_ is rather interesting if read as throwback eighteenth-century fiction or a precursor to detective novels. If nothing else, 'his mouth full of truth and turbot
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by jmenn 7y ago
My university went through an accessibility remediation process recently, and it was a rather nightmarish undertaking. Many universities have multiple (thousands) of individual microsites that are largely untouched for years at a time, and
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by jmenn 8y ago
Apologies if this is mentioned and I missed it, but does this account for changes in word meaning or context over time? Earlier literature, such as Austen, could be considered “not-vivid” unless you’re clued in for particular hints/phr
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by jmenn 8y ago
After reading Sloan's _Sourdough_, I ended up buying FWSY and have been making sourdough for about 6-9 months. I find the entire process remarkably fun, relaxing, and exciting. Unfortunately, I still can't get that real "sour
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by jmenn 9y ago
They're probably a lot worse inside academia for those fields. That said, everyone I know with an MA in English is doing really well for themselves, both inside and outside the academy. Maybe it's my small sample size though.
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by jmenn 9y ago
I've taken up woodworking. Though I'm still remarkably terrible at it, it's nice to feel something material that I built. At first it was mentally exhausting but still rewarding, and as I'm getting more used to the vario
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by jmenn 9y ago
I work at a university so getting books hasn't been too big an issue for me, but the public libraries near me have been pretty good about offering classes to a broad group of people, and pushing their makerspace & 3-D printers. I k
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by jmenn 10y ago
Not sure if this counts as engineering or a war story, but in my first job as an undergrad, I was hired as a "web intern" to setup a CMS for a non-profit. They offered me two CMSs from which to choose, Drupal or Joomla, a list of
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by jmenn 10y ago
I vaguely recall hearing something about Aelfric's "neorxnawang" (Paradise) being a derivation from Old Norse "norn," though IIRC Grimm said this wasn't possible.
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by jmenn 11y ago
You may be interested in Matthew Kirschenbaum's work on the literary history of word processing and, well, archiving software. He gave a talk, "Software, It's a Thing," at a conference at the Library of Congress in 2014:
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by jmenn 12y ago
This sort of took me aback in the article; this is a relatively well-known piece of libertine literature for those who study early-modern lit/culture.
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by jmenn 12y ago
In my field (English / English Lit) one of the motivations for the monograph is tenure. That's likely worth more than any royalties off the actual book sales.
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by jmenn 12y ago
The cutoff at 1800 seems odd given Louis Eustace Ude's _The French Cook_ comes out in French in 1813, and had a strong foothold in England prior to 1800. [1] If I understand correctly, he was also one of the first to bring what we now
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by jmenn 12y ago
Same, but English literature PhD student keeping an eye on being employable in the future if tenure disappears. Generally find myself writing Python as a hobby or for my dissertation.
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by jmenn 13y ago
Disclaimer: I'm in an English PhD program. Regarding the parent's comment about adjuncting, no one who goes into an English PhD program expects they'll get a tenure track job out of it, and if they do believe such a thing, th
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by jmenn 13y ago
The non-research/terminal MS may also be useful for those wishing to teach computer science at the junior/community-college level.