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Michael Livingston

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Hobbitspeak: Like father …

It’s been awhile since I made any observations about the linguistic development of the wee lad. It’s Christmas Eve morning. The tree is trimmed and glorious, resplendent with lights and memories. The yawning house stumbles down the hardwood stairs to gather in the kitchen. Bowls of cereal are poured. Juice …

Scale of the Universe

After getting through the annual end-of-year trials — grading, shopping, grading, repeat — I caught quite the wicked cold bug. Been a-bed for a couple of days, and I’m at least a few more days from substantial recovery. Thus, in the meantime, I direct you to one more means of …

Samsung Monitor Repair

About two years ago, we bought ourselves a fancy new computer monitor. It wasn’t incredibly state of the art, but we got a great deal on it, and it was still a really awesome monitor: a Samsung SyncMaster T220HD, a 22″ widescreen, high-definition monitor/HDTV beauty. The monitor was a huge …

How Small We Are

I’ve been up to quite a bit lately — thus the silence for over a month ’round these parts — and there’s thus quite a lot that I might chat about here: academic news, fiction work, teaching successes, sudden family vacations, and so forth. And perhaps I will bring that …