Category: General
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the satisfactions of submission
What did I get up to over the Easter weekend this year? Yup, crankin’ out a grant application, because academia is a harsh mistress, and I choose to abase myself in the hope of her favour. Thanks to slightly improved process management protocols on my part (read as: keeping track of when I do what…
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våren har kommit igen
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always trust your instincts
Always enlightening to see your own culture through the eyes of an outsider. USian artist James A Reeves is currently tooling round That Septic Isle, and so reminding me of familiarities which I am for the most part glad to have left behind, but seen askance as unfamiliarities. It helps that he has a fine…
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jag har slutat med ugglan
As previously discussed. 650 days is a pretty good run, but Clozemaster looks like it’s far better suited to my needs going forward.
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duolingoing, duolingone
Have just noticed that Duolingo have mothballed their entire discussion forums at some point over the last few weeks, and have even gone so far as to nuke their announcement and explanation of their doing so. This explains with hindsight the increasingly terse and obfuscatory (not to mention diminishing) input to said forums from their…