As I began settling into the permanent home for the Lingamish franchise, I started thinking that I have neglected to award a Lingy to some of my favorite people. These people have stuck with me through thick and thin and consistently read my blog and encourage me through commenting. No commenters–No blog. So why haven’t [...]
I’m really impressed with the JigluTags system. The image depicts the tags for this entire site. When you go to a particular page the sidebar shows you tags for that page and related links. It’s a terrific system. I hope my readers will find this a helpful way to find related posts in [...]
My Mom passed away in July of last year but my memories of her are always drawn back to the wonderful two weeks we had together on the beach in South Africa earlier that year. It stinks not having her around. But I feel so privileged to have had her as my Mom and to [...]
Welcome to the new home of Lingamish. I will be experimenting with a few things here. First, I’m quite interested in semantic tagging so I’m going to be playing with Open Calais and trying to make actual content on this blog more accessible. Second, this blog is going to be less academic. When I’m feeling [...]
I discovered that the students here in Mozambique are using CD-R disks as a type of Flash drive. They can record new files onto the disk and carry it with them. The price difference between a blank CD and a Flash drive is much cheaper. I think a blank CD must sell for maybe $2 [...]
I would love one of these. Would someone like to purchase it and send it to me in Africa? I think my Mozambican friends would think it was really cool since Obama is right up there with Mandela and Tutu. An added advantage is that because it’s clover you can actually trim the Commander [...]
Are you sick and tired of trying to convince a jar of pickles to yodel using melodious mind bullets and sheer force of will? So were we. At last, the Electronic Yodelling Pickle that you have always hoped for! Each 6-1/2" long plastic pickle yodels its little heart out at [...]
Why do I love thee? Why am I enslaved to you? O, happy addiction.
Still morning. Still mourning. Good grief. God, grief! Sad face. Mad place. Danced and laughed. Bad puns. Songs sung. Words wrong. Flowers, cats and wine. Start to write. Then remember. Wait for a call. Forgot again. [...]
Someone came by our house on Friday afternoon with a desperate situation. The cart bringing their maize back to town had broken down and they were stranded on the side of the road with night coming on. He said it was just a little bit of maize, but I knew what he really meant!
Here are [...]
