Category — Random

I went to the Durham Farmers’ Market this morning and bought a pint of the most delicious black berries I have ever had in my life. They were so tasty I had to photograph some of them.

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This is a useful tip I discovered through experimentation some time ago. As I was answering someone’s question about how to do this in the WordPress.org support forums the other day as a much simpler solution than a second WP installation, it occurred to me that I should write this post. My impression is that it might not be a widely known tactic.
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There has been an unfortunate misunderstanding in the WordPress community surrounding the GPL and theme and/or design licensing. I seek to clarify these questions because I see them a lot, but the answers are not usually complete. [Read more →]

Last night, or more accurately, this morning, I finished reading The Time Traveler’s Wife for the second time. The first time I read it was I think September of 2007 (yes, I have a wonderful memory). Although I don’t love romance novels I do remember loving this book. I enjoyed it so thoroughly that I bought it last Christmas so I could read it again.

Surprisingly, the second time around, I’m not sure I still agree with my initial feeling of loving this book. The writing is good. The story however, is very unique. I also happen to be a sucker for any novel that relates in any way to time travel. I had forgotten though, how much this novel leaves me in agony. I’m all for bittersweet endings, don’t get me wrong, but this book is agonizing, far beyond bittersweet, most of the way through.

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About a year ago Robert Fischer and I got into a heated debate about the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis and whether or not it had merit.

For those of you who aren’t familiar the hypothesis: in short, it asserts a cultures vocabulary has a strong impact on how people within that culture perceive things in their life. Or more simply, as I remember Robert arguing it: if your culture doesn’t have a word for it, you can’t perceive it.

Both because I like playing the Devil’s advocate and because I am fundamentally a person whose experience of life tends to be more sensory than linguistic anyway, I argued that this hypothesis couldn’t be true. I know there have been times that I have struggled for appropriate words to describe a knowing or feeling I have, and whether or not I could come up with them at the moment it didn’t change the level of complexity I felt at the time.

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