Do Androids dream of electric apps?

September 9th, 2010

As noted previously, I finally resolved the phone issue. (And AT&T can still die in a fire.)

The number one question I’ve been getting (replacing “Where did you get that shirt?” at the top of the charts) is: “How do you like your new phone?”

Answer: I like it just fine, but…below are some preliminary thoughts on Android (at least, as implemented on the EVO 4G; I do realize that some of these may be issues with the built-in apps, rather than the Android OS itself):

  • It is disappointing to me that the alarm built into the EVO’s clock app can’t be set to play arbitrary sound files as alarms. (I fall into Ihnatko’s 2% who haven’t seen the movie yet, but I love the story behind “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien“.)
  • Ditto that I can’t set an arbitrary sound file for text message notifications.
  • It is also disappointing to me that there’s no basic Notepad type app provided with the EVO. I’m sure there’s probably 300+ on the Android marketplace, but I needed to make a shopping list this morning and didn’t have time to sort through all of them. Any tips?
  • Integration between the built-in music player and the built-in navigation app is also a disappointment; the navigation app will pause the player to make route announcements, but you have to manually start the player up again, rather than it automatically resuming play.
  • On the plus side, the sound is great; I can listen to podcasts in the car without having to hook into my (currently non-functional) stereo system.
  • The on-screen keyboard is vastly better than using the keypad (even with T9) was on the T616, and somewhat better than the on-screen keyboard on the N800. However, I still have a lot of trouble hitting the correct key with my large-ish fingers.
  • One of the drawbacks of purchasing an Android phone is synchronization with the MacBook. If I had purchased an iPhone, everything would be simple (or at least, simpler). But, no, I had to be different and resist peer pressure… At some point, I suspect I will end up ordering this. (Right now – and I do realize this is a phone controlled setting – the MacBook sees the phone as a USB disk drive with photos on it, and automatically opens iPhoto. I can browse the Android file system and copy files to or from it without problems.)
  • Speaking of iPhoto, I’ve done almost nothing with the built-in camera yet.  I need to work on that.
  • The EVO’s calendar app has a noticeable lag; it takes a couple of seconds to switch to the current date when I bring it up.
  • If there’s a way to sync the EVO’s calendar app with Google Calender, I haven’t found it, and there doesn’t seem to be a separate Google Calender app (like there is for Maps, Voice, Earth, etc.). Do I need to grab some other calender app off the Android Market? (Edited to add 9/10: Okay, I think I’ve figured this one out. You can sync the EVO app with Google Calender, it just isn’t quite as straightforward as I was looking for.)
  • The EVO also seems to lag behind in changing screen orientation when I rotate the phone.
  • I managed to get the Android SDK and the ADT plugin installed without problems on the MacBook, but the ADT plugin won’t install into Eclipse on Project e. It looks like there are some dependencies that Eclipse can’t resolve, but I can’t figure out what those are. I may have to blow away and reinstall Eclipse (which isn’t a major issue; I don’t have a bunch invested in Eclipse on Project e).
  • I either need to dig out my old Java textbook, or see if I can find an updated edition cheap online.
  • Speaking of textbooks, and having nothing to do with Android in particular, I just paid $180+ for a damn textbook. This makes me mildly cranky.
  • My old T616 in the case fit neatly into the magazine phone pocket of my 5.11 tactical pants. The EVO? Doesn’t fit. Dear 5.11 folks: maybe we could think about redesigning that pocket to fit smartphones? (I wear 5.11 tactical pants (or, as some people call them, “a Kaiser blade Internet pants“), not because I’m a mall ninja, but because they are the most comfortable and toughest pants I’ve found. Plus they make it really easy to carry all my stuff.)
  • Battery life is…well, middling. I haven’t really tried optimizing power consumption, though, except for turning off WiFi and Bluetooth. (Hurrah for the EVO’s control panel that allows easy access to those settings.)
  • There’s a few applications I’m looking for and would welcome advice on finding in the Android market. The first one is a good WiFi scanning utility; ideally, it would have the ability to log access points with GPS coordinates, note if the points are A, B, G, or N, note if they’re open or closed (and if they’re WEP, WPA, WPA2, etc.), and write all this data to a XML or KML file. It looks like there are several apps in the market that meet these criteria, but I’m not sure which ones are good.
    The second app I’m looking for is a good vehicle management application. At a minimum, I’d like to be able to enter an odometer reading and number of gallons, and get a miles-per-gallon figure for that tank, as well as an average MPG for all tanks to date. It’d be spiffy if I could also enter a price per gallon, as well as other expenses (insurance, repairs, maintenance) and get a cost-per-mile figure as well.
  • I love the GPS Status app.
  • I’ve played a little with the Amazon Kindle app; so far, I’m more impressed with it than I am with the refurbished Kindle I purchased earlier this year.
  • The EVO’s screen is impressive. Much better than the N800’s. I haven’t done a side-by-side with an iPhone 4 yet, but I’m willing to bet it gives the iPhone a run for its money.
  • The EVO’s video player can decode H.264 video! (I haven’t done anything with the camcorder app, so I don’t know what format it encodes video in.)
  • Waiting for a sale on those 32GB microSD cards…
  • Edited to add: There’s also no general file browser app on the EVO.

Again, I generally like the phone; most of these are just minor quibbles that I can probably solve one way or another.

Posted in Android, asus_eee, Books, Geek, Kindleing, linux, Movies, netbook, Nokia, Pants, Photography, project_e, School | 4 Comments »

Random gun crankery: September 9, 2010.

September 9th, 2010

Two interesting stories I’ve run across in the past few days.

Story #1 is the guy in Long Island who held off a street gang with “an AK-47“, fired several “warning shots” in the process…and was arrested for “reckless endangerment“. This has been getting a lot of buzz on the gun blogs; some good takes on this story are Lawrence’s, Jay G’s, and SayUncle’s. SayUncle and Jay G. make the point I’d want to make on this; warning shots are generally not a good idea. If you’re justified in shooting, put your rounds into the SOB. Plus, those warning shots are going to go somewhere, and it may not be where you’d like.

Lawrence also tipped me to a story I haven’t seen elsewhere: the city of Carrollton, up near Dallas, is debating a proposition that would ban gun stores within a certain (unspecified) distance of liquor stores “and certain other (also unspecified -DB) retail establishments”.

As Lawrence puts it, “Somehow, I’m not seeing the sort of person who shotguns a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 in a parking lot as being the same sort of person who has either a few hundred dollars burning a hole in their pocket, or a valid credit card.”

I don’t have anything to add to that, so instead I’ll link to the Hobo With a Shotgun trailer.

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It’s pronounced “eye-gor”.

September 8th, 2010

Tropical Storm Igor forms in the Atlantic.

(Subject line hattip. Really, I had to do it.)

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Art, damn it, art! watch. (#16 in a series)

September 8th, 2010

By way of Mike the Musicologist, we find out what Damien “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.” Hirst has been up to recently.

(I love the caption on that NYT photo: “Damien Hirst with a spare frozen shark.” Because, you know, all serious artists keep a spare frozen shark around. You never know when a dead frozen shark might come in handy.)

Bespoke stainless steel wheel covers for your 4×4.

This is the kind of thing I could see myself purchasing. If I had a 4×4. And if I had money to burn. And if I was a moron.

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TMQ watch: September 7, 2010.

September 7th, 2010

This week, haiku. And for the second week in a row, no “TMQ Trailer”.

TMQ Watch is not going to re-type all of Easterbrook’s haiku, as that would be unfair to Easterbrook and ESPN. Nor are we going to write our own responses in haiku; one of WCD’s limitations (“A man’s got to know his limitations.“) is a total inability to write haiku.

Easing our toe into the waters…

  • Ah, the revenge of the cupcakes, another recurring trope. Even better from TMQ’s point of view, the Jacksonville State turnaround began with an interception caused by Ole Miss trying to run up the score. “The football gods punish this sort of thing.” And thus the football gods make their first appearance this season in TMQ.
  • Scantily clad Ukrainian cheer babes. Photo too small.
  • Whenever TMQ says, “Tuesday Morning Quarterback long has maintained…”, yeah, that’s a trope. In this case, TMQ argues that year-to-year athletic scholarships hurt athletes, by leading to a focus on athletics over education, and may constitute “restraint of trade” according to the Justice Department.
  • Creep.
  • 335 pound linemen. Noted as another example of a recurring trope.
  • Why does the media love a good oil spill? TMQ thinks it could have something to do with the $200 million BP has spent on “image advertising”.
  • Haynesworth.
  • TMQ bashes the NYT; in this case, the paper of record acts like David Romer’s “go for it on 4th down” paper is new, when it was covered by people like the Washington Monthly and TMQ in 2006.

    In the same package, the Times asks why, if going for it, kicking onside and deuce tries make sense, NFL coaches rarely attempt these stratagems. The answer the Times proposes — that coaches don’t want to be blamed for failed gambles — is a running theme of Tuesday Morning Quarterback. I’ve even been saying this for 10 years, since this column began on Slate.com, which was then a radical innovation on that new Interweb thing.

    Not just a trope, but a trope Easterbrook admits to!

  • Easterbrook complains about the recent glut of hitman movies, and the glamorization of violence. Again.
  • Technology has made the study of game films much easier, resulting in game film study trickling down to the high school level and below.
  • Hurrah for one of my personal favorite TMQ tropes, the obscure college score of the week!
  • Quoted without comment: “[Sports commentators] have a snug image of what’s “supposed” to happen, and don’t take kindly to original thinking.”
  • Christmas creep.
  • After last year’s minimum wage increase, Easterbrook suggested that this would be a test of the relationship between higher minimum wages and unemployment. If unemployment went up, that would be evidence for the proposition; if it went down, that would be evidence against. The end result so far? Unemployment remains constant at 9.5 percent. It would have been interesting to see Easterbrook break out the figures by age group; has unemployment among teens increased?
  • Reader comments: objections to characterizing Dallas as a non-neutral site for the Texas-OU game, discussion of cupcake games pro and con, the 18-game season as bargaining chip, and getting shot hurts.

Next week, the start of the season, and Easterbrook steps up his game. We hope.

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    Obit watch.

    September 6th, 2010

    I’ve been trying to find a way into this for the past couple of days now, which is why I’m a little behind.

    Paul Conrad, former cartoonist for the LAT.

    Robert Schimmel, stand-up comic.

    Larry Ashmead, prominent book editor. Ashmead edited books by a lot of people I like, including some well-known mystery writers.

    Joe Domenici, local Austin thriller writer (Bringing Back the Dead).

    Lawrence and Bill Crider both have posts up at their sites about Joe. I’m not going to pretend I knew Joe real well; both Mike the Musicologist and Lawrence knew him better than I did. I basically just saw Joe every year at Armadillocon, and the occasional convention in between. But he was always happy to see me, and I was glad to see him around. When Bringing Back the Dead came out, I thought it was a pretty spiffy book, and I’m glad I had a chance to tell Joe that. I don’t know why he seemed stunned by that; after all, the truth is the truth. You can’t have opinions about the truth.

    Mike and I both got email from Joe quite a while back asking for permission to Tuckerize us in the next book. I’m not sure what Mike’s response was; mine was basically, “F- yeah!”. I was enormously pleased and honored that Joe would do something like that. Joe emailed us both back in early May to let us know the next book, The Death Factory, was tentatively scheduled for “Sping/Summer 2011”. I’m hoping it comes out and doesn’t get lost in the shuffle. Joe deserves better than that.

    Posted in Books, Clippings, Obits | 1 Comment »

    Promoted from the comments.

    September 4th, 2010

    Hello, I am a Customer Care rep for AT&T and I would like to say that I really do understand how this was aggravating for you from the very beginning, and I apoligize that you had so much difficulty upgrading your equipment. Honestly, you should have went to an AT&T Company Owned Retail store from the beginning. Best buy is a “National Retailer” and they do not have as much training or access to your account as the internal sales channels do. It is possible the the Best Buy reps either 1. Did not know what to do. Or, 2. did not even have access to the information they needed to figure out what was wrong.

    This issue that you experienced was due to network and billing system conversion that has been going on for years. In the billing system, it requires all “Blue” customers to convert to the “Orange” network before they can do an equipment upgrade. We call this the “Migration Process.” AT&T has put blocks in the billing system that requires customers to eventually Migrate to the Orange network. This entails getting a new SIM card, a compatible phone and often changing rate plans also, since the “blue” rate plans are normally very old and are sales expired.

    This is a very rare issue that impacts customer’s that have been with us for many many years and still have fairly old equipment. It is not a common issue, which may be why you had so much difficulty, and once again I apologize, on a lighter note I hope your enjoying your new phone!

    As always, thank you for choosing AT&T, we really appreciate your business and have a pleasant day… 🙂

    Dear anonymous AT&T rep:

    Yes, as  a matter of fact, I am enjoying my new phone very much.

    By the way, that phone is a HTC EVO 4G, on the Sprint network. I’ve terminated my service with AT&T after six years.

    Have a nice day.

    Posted in Android, Geek | 5 Comments »

    Friday loser update.

    September 3rd, 2010

    We’re a little less than a week away from the start of the football season, and about eleven days from the start of the NFL loser update, for those of you playing along at home. In the meantime…

    Pittsburgh’s at 44-89, .331 winning percentage, 53.622 projected wins. That’s about 108 losses; we can consider the 110 loss goal still in play.

    Baltimore’s at 49-85, .366 winning percentage, 59.292 projected wins.

    And the Astros have moved into third (3rd!) place in the division, with a 62-71 record, .466 winning percentage, and 75.492 projected wins.

    Posted in Loser, Sports | 6 Comments »

    Noted without comment.

    September 2nd, 2010

    I’ve been involved in a discussion over at Jay G’s site about famous mass murders that didn’t involve guns. As part of that, I went over to Wikipedia to refresh my memory about a couple of famous incidents and discovered the following interesting bits of information.

    The Happy Land social club fire:

    Found guilty on August 19, 1991, of 87 counts of arson and 87 counts of murder, [Julio] González was sentenced to 174 twenty-five year sentences, to be served consecutively (a total of 4,350 years) . It was the most substantial prison term ever imposed in the state of New York. He will be eligible for parole in March 2015.

    The Dupont Plaza Hotel fire:

    Of the three employees accused of the fire, only one, Héctor Escudero Aponte, is still in prison. Armando Jimenez and José Francisco Rivera Lopez were released from federal prison in 2001 and 2002 respectively.

    (And if you want to read about something both horrible and forgotten, look up the Bath School disaster.)

    Posted in Explosives, Law | Comments Closed

    Art, damn it, art! watch. (#15 in a series)

    September 1st, 2010

    The Cardiff Botanical Society, in Cardiff-By-The-Sea, California, spent $120,000 to put up a 16-foot statue of a “surfer”. That is, for values of “surfer” that look a lot like…well, maybe, me on a surfboard.

    Hilarity ensues, complete with people using the “Cardiff Kook” (as the statue is known) as a jumping off point to create their own works of art.

    (Hattip: Reason’s “Hit and Run“.)

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    Sweet, sweet lead.

    September 1st, 2010

    Because this broke while I was tied up with Armadillocon, I haven’t had a chance to blog it before now: the proposed EPA lead ammo ban appears to be as dead as the Roman Empire.

    At least, for now. What was that someone said about the price of freedom?

    Posted in Guns, Politics | 1 Comment »

    Clippings: September 1, 2010.

    September 1st, 2010

    Obit watch: Laurent Fignon, two-time winner of the Tour de France, and the man who lost the Tour to Greg LeMond by eight seconds in 1989.

    Is it just me, or do Tour winners tend to die relatively young? (Yes, I read the obit. Yes, I’m aware Fignon blames his drug use. I’m trying to avoid painting all the Tour winners with the same broad brush.)

    Kim Severson profiles Roger Ebert, rice cooker chef.

    I wanted to blog this yesterday, but didn’t get a chance: the Barnes and Noble across from Lincoln Center is closing. People are sad, though it sounds like many of them were getting their books elsewhere. Remember when people were indignant that Barnes and Noble and Borders were destroying the little bookstores?

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    TMQ watch: August 31, 2010.

    August 31st, 2010

    Last week, the AFC. This week, the NFC.

    I’d start out by discussing Monday’s TMQ Trailer, as I’ve been doing; oddly, though, there does not seem to have been a TMQ Trailer this week. (If there was one, it does not show on Page 2, or in the Easterbrook archives.)

    Before I jump into the meat of Easterbrook’s column, I’d like to note two things about TMQ Watch:

    1. TMQ Watch is not intended to be a substitute for reading TMQ. Easterbrook is a much better writer than I am, and I strongly encourage you to read his columns, not just my filtered summaries of them. The intent of TMQ Watch is to highlight recurring themes and tropes in TMQ, to call out things in TMQ that I believe are wrong or mistaken, and to provide a different point of view in places where I disagree with Easterbrook’s positions.
    2. There does not appear to be any place on the web that currently hosts discussions of Easterbrook’s columns (the great Football Outsiders did for a while, but does not currently) so I welcome discussions and responses to TMQ, or TMQ Watch, here. Please note that comments are moderated, and will be approved as my time permits. Also, if someone wants to start a “TMQ Watch” Watch (like WikiLeakiLeaks) I promise you a link on my blogroll (as long as your blog isn’t a spam blog).

    So let’s rumble.

    Another TMQ trope is complaining about college football powerhouses scheduling weak opponents, such as UT vs. Rice  (Easterbrook calls these “cupcake” games). With the college season starting on Thursday, Easterbrook drags this one out of the closet like a Neru jacket and tries it on; behold, it still fits!

    TMQ is in favor of dumping two preseason games, but opposed to an 18 game season;  Easterbrook believes that an 18 game season will “dilute the product”.  “Plus an 18-game season would mean either starting the NFL regular season before Labor Day or holding the Super Bowl after Valentine’s Day.” And that would be bad…because? Once again, he trots out the “there is no law of nature that says the NFL must remain so popular” trope.

    Team by team breakdown:

    • Arizona: Maybe they’ll develop a balanced attack and become less “pass whacky” (an Easterbrook coinage). And hey, TMQ may have been wrong about Matt Leinart. I’d love to laugh at TMQ’s admission about Leinart..but, well, I think a lot of other people were wrong, too, including me.
    • Atlanta: “If the Saints can win the Super Bowl, why can’t the long-suffering Falcons, too?” Long-suffering Houston football fans are welcome to respond in the comments.
    • Carolina: Once they dumped Delhomme, they went 4-1. Could they be even better in 2010?
    • Easterbrook is now writing a regular column for Reuters. I’m not going to be blogging that, unless he says something noteworthy; I’m RUNNING OUT OF TIME! Seriously, I don’t have time to blog this column as well, but I’d love to see someone like Battleswarm take it on.
    • Chicago: Easterbrook invokes another trope, exaggerated NFL deals, in the case of Julius Peppers. Peppers supposedly signed a “six year, $92 million” deal, but since the contract is heavily loaded on the back end, it is unlikely he’ll see the full $92 million; depending on who you talk to, he could get $20 million to $42 million. In any case, this makes him nearly as overpaid as Albert Haynesworth. And why isn’t Devin Hester returning kicks?
    • We still haven’t given up on the Christmas Creep.
    • Was it really worth the taxpayer money that was spent to investigate whether the governor of New York took free World Series tickets? Easterbrook says no; I’d argue that there’s something to be said for truth and honesty in government, even in seemingly small things like World Series tickets.
    • Speaking of RUNNING OUT OF TIME, Easterbrook’s substitute for complaining about scientific implausibility in SF television shows this week is…complaining that people don’t react realistically to being shot in movies and television. (See, for example, Jack Bauer.)
      “Hollywood sells violence, violence, violence — and then with movie stars, people the public empathizes with, suggests: Hey, bullets don’t really do any harm, you’ll be fine 20 minutes later. So fire away!” Complaining about movie and television violence is another Easterbrook trope, and one that’s gotten him into trouble previously.
      He may be right about Cop Land; I missed that when it was in theatrical release, although I was curious about it. At some point, I’ll have to catch up with it on DVD.
    • Dallas: December collapse, Wade Phillips is 1-5 in the post season, would you pay 1.8 billion dollars for the Cowboys?
    • Another recurring trope: the wacky disclaimer (this time for Comcast’s file backup service) and the word count comparison to the United States Constitution. For the record, I come up with a word count of 8,761 words (which I believe includes some photo captions; this seems fair to me, as I think Easterbrook writes those as well) in this week’s column; this site gives a total word count for the US Constitution of 4,400 words. So Easterbrook nearly doubles the word count of the founding document of the United States to discuss one week of events in a sport that hasn’t even started yet. (Isn’t turnabout fun? For the record, this blog entry comes in at 1,380 words.)
    • Detroit: Ndamukong Suh should have won the Heisman. The fact that he didn’t means “linemen simply are not eligible for the Heisman” and “the award should be renamed the Heisman Trophy for the Running Back or Quarterback Who Receives the Most Publicity.” (Yet another Easterbrook trope; linemen don’t get enough credit, especially at Heisman time.) “There’s a sense of optimism around the Lions.” I’d be optimistic too, if I had no place to go but up.
    • More kickoff specialists, fewer punters, please.
    • Green Bay: Aaron Rodgers is already a better deal for the Packers than keeping Brett Farve around would have been. That sound you heard was Peter King’s head exploding.
    • Giants (aka Jersey/A in the TMQ World): Since they won the Super Bowl, the Giants have looked like just another football team. And people in New York can’t stand that. Not exactly a TMQ trope, but Easterbrook here sure sounds an awful lot like Mike the Musicologist (who did a several year bit in New York attending grad school, and speaks of it in the same terms Marines use for their time in ‘Nam).
    • More creep.
    • Vikings: Farve the Farve. Farve farve farve. Farve! (If you’ve never seen the original Malkovich Mediator, it’s here.)
    • Saints: Doomed. Drew Brees is on the cover of Madden. Doomed. Also, stuff about taxes and the Saints getting a sweetheart deal from the state of Louisana. Corruption? In Louisana? Shocked, I am, shocked! I’m reminded of something Calvin Trillin quoted once: “The only important question about any public project in [Louisana] is: who’s writing the insurance?”
    • Eagles: Listless and stale the past two seasons. Maybe the offseason purge will help. I’m surprised that Easterbrook didn’t invoke another of his tropes; that the Football Gods are punishing the team, in this case for signing Michael Vick.
    • Rams: “Where is the players’ self-respect?”
    • San Francisco: Lousy team in a very weak division. Easterbrook, to his praise, has some interesting stuff about why the team is moving to a new stadium in Santa Clara.
    • Seattle: Pete Carroll is a cheater.
    • Tampa: Good special teams, and that’s about it.
    • Washington: Seven head coaches, eleven starting quarterbacks, and nine offensive coordinators in the eleven years “Chainsaw Dan Snyder” (trope!) has owned the team. Don’t look for McNabb to save them; his team in Philadelphia was much better than this one. “In his official photo, Shanahan looks like someone auditioning for a reality show about people who think they are Napoleon.” I was going to make fun of Easterbrook for this comment, but…damn, he’s right!
      Also, more Haynesworth bashing.
    • Reader comments: Easterbrook is wrong when it comes to killing.

    And thus we come to the end of this week’s TMQ Watch. Next week: season predictions in haiku. I haven’t made up my mind yet whether I’m going to give TMQ a hard time for not including seasonal references in his haiku. (No, I’m sorry, the fact that they’re all about football does not, in and of itself, constitute a seasonal reference.)

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    Speaking of Armadillocon…

    August 31st, 2010

    Here’s a little linky love for Lawrence’s series of photos from the convention:

    Part 1.

    Part 2.

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    50 words for General Tso’s Chicken.

    August 31st, 2010

    Patrick over at Popehat links to a NYT article I noted late last week, but didn’t have time to read until yesterday.

    Guy Deutscher’s article is basically (as I see it) a call for reconsideration of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, that our language determines how we think. I encountered Sapir-Whorf for the first time many, many years ago, in the pages of the late lamented Dr. Dobb’s Journal, and it blew me away at the time. I figured, “Well, if language influences how we think, then I need to learn FORTH. And C. And LISP. And…” Later on, of course, I read the various arguments against Sapir-Whorf, and don’t completely buy into the strong version of it any more, but I still retain some affection for Sapir-Whorf.

    The Deutscher article is an excerpt from his (forthcoming? It looks like it comes out today) book Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages, which I’ve already added to my Amazon wish list.

    In other notes, sorry about the blogging slowdown; I spent the weekend at ArmadilloCon, and am now somewhat tanned, rested, and relaxed. I spent some time yesterday bumming around various Half-Price Books in a futile search for A Short History of the French Revolution, but I did run across a handful of other interesting books:

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