Alan Boyle has an interesting story of the restoration of a lost Algonquin dialect. I don’t know whether or not the movie is any good in general, but I’m always impressed when a director works hard to get it right, even if few people would know the difference.

The global test is no longer number one on Google! It’s been demoted to numero dos.

C’mon, blogosphere. Are you going to let some cheesy marketing firm get away with that? Open up your hearts, and links.

The global test is no longer number one on Google! It’s been demoted to numero dos.

C’mon, blogosphere. Are you going to let some cheesy marketing firm get away with that? Open up your hearts, and links.

The global test is no longer number one on Google! It’s been demoted to numero dos.

C’mon, blogosphere. Are you going to let some cheesy marketing firm get away with that? Open up your hearts, and links.

The Donner family didn’t resort to cannibalism:

No cooked human bones were found among the thousands of fragments of animal bones at that Alder Creek site, suggesting Donner family members did not resort to cannibalism, the archaeologists said at a conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology in Sacramento, Calif.

“The Donner family ended up getting the stigma basically because of the name,” said Julie Schablitsky, one of the lead authors. “But of all the people, they were probably the least deserving of it.”

Patricia has been trying to keep the guest bedroom cat-free, in deference to potential allergenic guests. But occasionally she forgets, and Jessica, for whatever perverse feline reason, has decided that it’s her favorite room (in fact, her very own room, which we unjustly keep her out of), and lives for the times that the door gets left open.

She’s not thrilled to be caught in the act, but on the other hand, she can’t be bothered to show much deference to our recognition of her insubordination. She’s too mellow and relaxed, and she is, after all, a cat.

Patricia has been trying to keep the guest bedroom cat-free, in deference to potential allergenic guests. But occasionally she forgets, and Jessica, for whatever perverse feline reason, has decided that it’s her favorite room (in fact, her very own room, which we unjustly keep her out of), and lives for the times that the door gets left open.

She’s not thrilled to be caught in the act, but on the other hand, she can’t be bothered to show much deference to our recognition of her insubordination. She’s too mellow and relaxed, and she is, after all, a cat.

Patricia has been trying to keep the guest bedroom cat-free, in deference to potential allergenic guests. But occasionally she forgets, and Jessica, for whatever perverse feline reason, has decided that it’s her favorite room (in fact, her very own room, which we unjustly keep her out of), and lives for the times that the door gets left open.

She’s not thrilled to be caught in the act, but on the other hand, she can’t be bothered to show much deference to our recognition of her insubordination. She’s too mellow and relaxed, and she is, after all, a cat.

…last night watching that weird bowl game. You know, they have the cliche about “no one deserved to lose,” but I think that in that game, both teams deserved to lose. They certainly both tried hard enough to do so. It was like watching Michigan play itself.

There remains a lot of bad blood between the Wolverines and Cornhuskers, after many felt that Michigan should have had a sole national title in 1997, after Nebraska’s “soccer play” in the end zone that should have cost them the game against Missouri, and a sense that the co-championship was a retirement gift to their coach.

Well, tonight, the issue as to who’s the best will definitely be resolved, at least this year, though of course it will tell us nothing about what would have happened in a matchup between the 1997 teams.

[Update after the game]

Geez…

Did they just beat the record for the number of laterals in a single play? As my (semi(?)-lapsed Catholic) sister-in-law said, “That wasn’t just a Hail Mary–it was the whole damn rosary.”