Some students overheard me saying "They put me through my paces today!" and I need to remember to tell them that this was (complimentary) not (derogatory)

I wrote up a blog post about how I made those animated sound waves

Updating phonology slides for 2025

doppler effect, aka why you shouldn't spit in front of you while running

I'm proud of the line "If the only way we could hear each other was by spitting in each other's ears, we wouldn't get very far."

linguistics majors 😭

The units in acoustics are weird. Hz? the inverse of time itself. dB? unitless, don't worry about it.

first time i’ve seen a non-UK commentator use “starmerism”. lower case too. brutal

the fun thing about strudel is you can tweak your work music as you go, and it's like listening to your favorite track on infinite loop, because it *is* an endless loop.

don't have enough time to grade over 100 essays? Simply read them all and write a summary for each student. Then simply copy-paste 100 summaries with the rubric and the right prompt (will take some tweaking) into an LLM. Then simply read for quality control 100 AI generated comments!

have i done something wrong that i can only see the wave propagating from right to left?

a gif of a sound wave made possible by combining the new stat_manual, position_nudge aesthetics, and gganimate

you mean to say Korean media hasn’t been running “they were no saints” stories or exposés about any of their social media posts? that’s not an obligatory media reaction to actions of the state?

As someone who's most fluent in R, but has published both R and Python packages, I've always been a little horrified that there's no quality control checks whatsoever when publishing to pypi!

The mood and insanity of the moment feels similar to late September 2001

thinking about vowels again.

half the blanket squares are blocked!

the world feels unstable, but good things, like the development of this vacant and crumbling church in the middle of the city into affordable housing, can still happen

In an unprecedented 3 day, three posts streak, here's how I used Typst to make a game board for D&D

for the late nite crew: stat_manual() is super good

for the late nite crew: stat_manual() is super good

So in the blog I typed "side" when I meant "site" and in this post I typed "block" when I meant "blog"...

quick little block post about using the new ggplot2 theming to make darkmode a little easier

"People coulda been farting all the time in Ohala's oil drum and it wouldn'tve made a blip!" It's just very fun being in a linguistics department.

I had 2 weeks to prepare for an interrogation in D&D, and decided to go as OTT as I could

right wing mob goes nuts over a comment. UK suspends the guy. @kentucky.com writes a story with a link to a map of the guy's workplace

i think the fact that i still get to experience these pockets of time and space where students learn about affricates and some of them get excited is what keeps me going

thoughts and prayers

ejectives

I wonder what contributes more to likable & relatable people’s absence from partisan politics: Those people opting not to go into politics, or the political institutions shunting them out

if any history of science/data viz person ever wants to collab on speech sound tables & graphs, i’d be so down. just putting it out there in the universe

the IPA has not deemed a voiceless pharyngeal stop impossible. you’re all just cowards

Fun fact, you can embed these strudel.cc repls in a revealjs slide using a good old fashioned iframe

Gonna risk annoying the hell out of my phonetics class with lesson about the arbitrariness and imprecision of notation with these apeggios in different tuning standards

i used to think my relatives were saying “Al Veeterzane” to each other

in the school bookstore. heh! ha! ha ha ha! Ah Hah Ha! AHH HA HA HA! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHGG

Increasingly satisfied with my D&D campaign database

Desktop Zotero just updated, looks great, and there's no ✨AI bullshit packed in

v2

There's a world before I realized I could make these gifs, and a world after.

I've built such a comfortable nest in Obsidian, and it is completely unreplicable for me to suggest setting up for anyone.

this, from a labour government, is indistinguishable from what it was like living under home secretary Theresa May

A little animated diagram of the pivoting action of the arytenoid cartilages

I'm teaching phonetics/phonology this semester, so just a good time to remember that dolphins' larynxes pass through their esophagus

So tonight the party got into a fight in a big tavern where there were also a bunch of potentially friendly NPCs. I don't really enjoy playing D&D against myself (NPC vs NPC) so I gave control of the statblocks over to the players who convinced the friendlies to join, and it was a lot more fun!

folks, if you’re gonna try drawing an ultrasound probe emitting a fan of ultrasound waves on the board, like I did… just be careful, ok?

Roland McDonald hands out the hamburgers. The Hamburgler burgles the hams. What’s Grimace’s deal? What does he *do*?

RT is endorsement