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December 2, 2025December 2, 2025Reference & Language Tools

Current Linguistics Newsletter

Current Linguistics is a “weekly roundup of the latest language-related news, research in linguistics, interesting reads from the week, and newest books […]

Tom Stoppard, wearing a black jacket over a white dress shirt, elbow on a round table, in 1990 at the Venice Film Festival. CC-BY-SA licensed photo by Gorup de Besanez
December 2, 2025December 2, 2025Reading & Media

RIP: Tom Stoppard

RIP, Tom Stoppard (NYT Gift Link; Archive). My commonplace books are rife with bits of Stoppard’s plays I’ve collected over the years, […]

Cover of Malaika Handa's new book Easy Crosswords for Peace
December 2, 2025December 2, 2025Crosswords & Wordplay

New Book: Easy Crosswords for Peace by Malaika Handa!

Well, well, well…look who has a book out! And just in time for the holidays. You can order it from Hachette directly […]

Japanese prayer/shrine/good-luck pencils. Pencils have a natural wood barrel with black printed text below a splashy red circle as describe in the post.
November 26, 2025November 26, 2025Writing Tools

Dazaifu Sangu (?) Prayer/Shrine/Good Luck (?) pencils

Naturally, a web mosey that started with a search to try to identify the exact color of a Staedtler fineliner ended (temporarily) […]

November 16, 2025November 16, 2025Code, Crosswords

Downloading Hyperallergic Crosswords

the scripts I use to download .puz files from the Hyperallergic crosswords archive. I cobbled these together using my randomly acquired, woefully patchy programming skills, an A”I” chatbot, and the amazing xword-dl command-line puzzle downloading tool

November 2, 2025November 2, 2025Funny Finds, Miscellany

BadDad(Jokes) Gallery

Closed can labeled: dehydrated water - just add water
July 25, 2025July 25, 2025Funny Finds

Also add Tr**p

"this guy i know throws this wild crazy party at the end of every school year and he invites literally everyone in our grade and this year i'm gonna call the cops ahead of time to shut it down because i once let him borrow a pencil and he never gave it back that's a lot of anger over just 1 pencil." "it was a mechanical pencil" "You may proceed"
July 25, 2025July 25, 2025Funny Finds

Ah, OK…

'I asked chat gpt' 'I asked grok' ok well I asked a group of autistic people assuming one of them would have it in their special interest
July 25, 2025July 25, 2025Funny Finds

ChatGPT or Thee?

May 31, 2025May 31, 2025Commonplacing

“Extrication” (A. R. Ammons)

I tangled with
the world to
let it go…

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  • Current Linguistics Newsletter
  • RIP: Tom Stoppard
  • New Book: Easy Crosswords for Peace by Malaika Handa!
  • Dazaifu Sangu (?) Prayer/Shrine/Good Luck (?) pencils
  • Downloading Hyperallergic Crosswords

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