the teej

I am a speech pathology grad student in Madison, WI.

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OH GOD I WASN’T READY FOR WHAT CONTENT AWARE SCALING DOES TO MY CAT

[theonion]

Learned Sage Points Out That Powerball Not As Much After Taxes 

BELLEVUE, WA—Imparting his profound enlightenment and worldly understanding onto all who would heed his words, local billing clerk and learned sage Cameron Wenzel reportedly pointed out Wednesday that the Powerball jackpot is not worth as much after taxes. “They say the jackpot’s $1.5 billion, but you don’t actually get all of that,” the keenly perceptive man of learning informed several coworkers, allowing them to ponder his illuminating pronouncement for several moments before shrewdly explaining that the government “takes a whole lot of it.”

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[dizzyotter]

when i first saw this i thought the kittens were the lawyers

[catasters]

Nani Cat

[feisar]

Today is the third anniversary of Ikea Monkey

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[unstuckcommunity]

7 simple ways to feel more positive

Before you can change a problem, it helps to switch to a more positive outlook. Fortunately, it doesn’t take all that much to do it. Try any of these for an instant attitude changer.

• Smile more often. • Think about what makes you happy. • Make someone laugh. • Resist the urge to complain. • Appreciate the small things. • Make a list of your accomplishments. • Mentor someone.

Thanks to Karen Amster-Young and Pam Godwin for this list. You can find hundreds more ideas in their book The 52 Weeks: Two Women and Their Quest to Get Unstuck, with Stories and Ideas to Jumpstart Your Year of Discovery.

[carvalhais]

The best explanation of Wikipedia is what its own insiders like to say: Wikipedia works in practice but not in theory. It’s a great line, and in addition to being funny, it also shows that we simply have no adequate theories to understand Wikipedia.

Morozov, Evgeny. To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism and the Urge to Fix Problems That Don’t Exist. London: Allen Lane, 2013. (via carvalhais)

[fatmanatee]

I know nobody cares about this anymore but man, level 459 in twodots is brutal.

[t33j]

yup, been stuck on this one for 5 days

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[t33j]

Before Oval, no one heard the CD. They heard the music on CD, but the experimental music project founded by Germans Markus Popp, Frank Metzger, and Sebastian Oschatz first allowed us to listen to the format itself. The compact disc, initially presented as “perfect sound forever,” was also the first commercial audio format that did not exhibit its own audible artifacts in normal usage. Unlike vinyl, with its surface clicks and pops, and tape, with its hiss, healthy CDs had nothing to identify them as CDs. They were designed to be invisible, to slip into the background, to be clean and efficient and error-free. But sometimes, a scratch or a bit of debris would make a CD jump ahead or get stuck looping in place. The glitch, a tiny unit of sound without a natural beginning or end, had an insectile quality, a combination of a click and a chirp. In the early 1990s, Oval transformed this sound and other CD detritus into deeply beautiful and immersive music, but there was more going on underneath the surface; by shining a light on the sound of CD error, Oval showed us that we were no longer just listening to records but interfacing with a new technology that delivered streams of data in binary form—a harbinger of things to come.

A Glitch in Time: How Oval’s 1995 Ambient Masterpiece Predicted Our Digital Present | Pitchfork

what a great album.

[clickholeofficial]

Wow.

[catsbeaversandducks]

Happy Black Cat Appreciation Day!

Photos via Black Cats on Reddit

[the-out-door]

200 Words: THREE LEGGED RACE

(In 200 Words, we highlight a new record we like a lot, via a 200-word review by Marc Masters and 200 words (or so) from the artist about whatever they choose.)

THREE LEGGED RACE –  Rope Commercial Vol. 2 cassette (Vitrine)

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[t33j]

MY FIRST ARTICLE!!

Abstract: Children learn from their environments and their caregivers. To capitalize on learning opportunities, young children have to recognize familiar words efficiently by integrating contextual cues across word boundaries. Previous research has shown that adults can use phonetic cues from anticipatory coarticulation during word recognition. We asked whether 18–24 month-olds (n = 29) used coarticulatory cues on the word “the” when recognizing the following noun. We performed a looking-while-listening eyetracking experiment to examine word recognition in neutral vs. facilitating coarticulatory conditions. Participants looked to the target image significantly sooner when the determiner contained facilitating coarticulatory cues. These results provide the first evidence that novice word-learners can take advantage of anticipatory sub-phonemic cues during word recognition.

[owlapin]

MICROSOFT WORD HAS A FUCKING “INSERT CITATION” BUTTON WHY THE FUCK DID NO ONE EVER TELL ME THIS IS SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION FUCK THE SCHOOL SYSTEM THIS IS MICROSOFT WORD 2007 I SHOULD HAVE BEEN MADE AWARE OF THIS IN HIGHSCHOOL WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK I HATE EVERYTHING

[owlapin]

you can fucking log your sources into your document and then at the end press a fucking button and it makes a bibliography page for you im

[owlapin]

im not even lying im so mad

[historianista-blog]

Posting to save a grad student’s life.

[martianmanboobies]

i…cant…believe you guys didnt know this??

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I thought everyone know this!

[t33j]

sorry too busy rocking dat pandoc/bibtex lifestyle

[tristn]

Four years ago, I stopped using this blog because tumblr wouldn’t let me like posts or asks questions anymore. A few months before that time, I met a beautiful person kinda-sorta through tumblr, so I wrote posts about it with the tag tumblrgirl. And now I am going to marry her. Thought you should know that.

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