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• Another Jersey Girl Mystery

  By ljd42 on July 31, 2022

  

  Five days ago I wrote a brief review of E.J. Copperman’s third mystery novel in his Jersey Girl series. I pointed out that I had inadvertently skipped the second novel in the series, Judgment at Santa Monica. I commented that it… Read More ›

• We have hope for the future: My students’ interdisciplinary presentations

  By ljd42 on July 30, 2022

  

  👏 We just finished listening to the interdisciplinary presentations from my students’ end-of-summer projects. As you know, the course is an applied math course called Quantitative Reasoning; these rising sophomores showed just that with passion and commitment. In the words… Read More ›

• Books with linguists

  By ljd42 on July 29, 2022

  

  Read that title again: it’s books with linguists, not books for linguists. This thought came from a post on Language Log, in which Barbara Phillips Long asks whether “there are books with linguists as major characters.” Commenters came to the rescue, with… Read More ›

• Two different worlds: my students’ favorite musical artists

  By ljd42 on July 27, 2022

  

  Yesterday we conducted a mock election to determine my students’ favorite musical artists using Ranked Choice Voting (RCV). The purpose was to let them experience RCV first-hand by going through a simulation. I think it accomplished that goal. What most… Read More ›

• Great fun! This is a truly enjoyable mystery novel!

  By ljd42 on July 26, 2022

  

  I am not a big reader of cozies. But this is a worthwhile exception. I’m talking about Witness for the Persecution, by E.J. Copperman. Or is it by Jeff Cohen? Anyway, yes, the word is persecution, not prosecution. You’re probably… Read More ›

• Too hot to cook!

  By ljd42 on July 24, 2022

  

  Yes, I know. Going out to eat twice in one week is decadent. But it’s just so hot. Definitely too hot to cook. So we went to our usual favorite, the Ashmont Grill. Barbara started with what used to be… Read More ›

• A European view on languages

  By ljd42 on July 23, 2022

  

  Seven Languages in Seven Days! That sure sounds familiar. Four years ago I taught a four-day course that was somewhat misleadingly called Five Languages in Five Days (check out the link), so my eye was certainly caught by a description… Read More ›

• Tavolo

  By ljd42 on July 21, 2022

  

  Too hot to cook last night! So we just had to go out to eat at Tavolo. It was quite a sacrifice, but someone had to do it. Unfortunately, they were understaffed. Poor Chris was the only server! But he… Read More ›

• Atrius/Harvard Vanguard acquired by a for-profit company

  By ljd42 on July 19, 2022

  

  Not that I’m worried or anything…I’m sure that the quality of my health care will continue to be just as good, now that the non-profit medical practice I have used for half a century has been acquired by a for-profit… Read More ›

• შემომეჭამა 

  By ljd42 on July 17, 2022

  

  There might be a typo in that title! Did you catch it? No, this not just a bunch of squiggles! It’s a real word, written in a real script, in a real language—one that is spoken by four million real… Read More ›

• Three steamed lobstahs

  By ljd42 on July 15, 2022

  

  Freshly steamed take-out from George at Adams Fish Market. The cats are very curious.

• 224 again (does that make 448?)

  By ljd42 on July 13, 2022

  

  A delicious dinner last night in an outside umbrella’d booth at 224 Boston Street. Barbara started with kung pao calamari, followed by a southwest salad. I started with pork dumplings, followed by a pan-seared duck breast with roasted carrot purée,… Read More ›

• The Oxford Brotherhood

  By ljd42 on July 10, 2022

  

  If you’re interested in academic mysteries, read this novel. If you’re interested in Lewis Carroll, read this novel. If you’re interested in mathematical logic, read this novel. In all these cases, the novel in question is The Oxford Brotherhood, by… Read More ›

• Julia Metraux on “How queer Jews reclaimed Yiddish.”

  By ljd42 on July 8, 2022

  

  My former Weston High School student, Julia Métraux, has published a really interesting article about the reclaiming of Yiddish by queer Jews. As you know, I’ve written several posts that mention Yiddish, most recently one about the Yiddish-German connection. You… Read More ›

• Miriam and Alan explore Scotland.

  By ljd42 on July 6, 2022

  

  Which two actors are these? Yes, Alan is Alan Cumming, as you suspected. And Miriam is Miriam Margolyes, who has appeared in dozens of films but is best known (in certain circles) as Professor Sprout in several of the Harry… Read More ›

• Don’t shoot off fireworks in residential neighborhoods…

  By ljd42 on July 4, 2022

  

  …where they scare cats and dogs, trigger PTSD in war veterans, and are illegal.

• 42: From crosswords to jigsaws to the meaning of life

  By ljd42 on July 3, 2022

  

  Another exciting book from A.J. Jacobs! 42: From crosswords to jigsaws to the meaning of life is not the title of the book. As Lewis Carroll might say, it’s not even the name of the book. Nor is it what… Read More ›

• Can you pronounce dBar as one syllable?

  By ljd42 on July 1, 2022

  

  Barbara and I had a lovely dinner at dBar, outside on their beautiful patio…but we forgot to take pictures! ☹️ I suppose that means it didn’t happen. So we’ll settle for a photo from OpenTable. Barbara started with a “jumbo… Read More ›

• And now…I’m back to teaching…

  By ljd42 on June 29, 2022

  

  Ten months ago was when I had most recently taught a class. But that was by Zoom, of course. As was my teaching in the previous summer. So it has really been almost three years since I’ve taught a live… Read More ›

• More and more teachers are leaving the teaching profession.

  By ljd42 on June 27, 2022

  

  Yes, I suppose I’m part of the problem, not part of the solution. But I didn’t exactly leave the teaching profession: I just retired from my position at Weston High School. Being “semi-retired,” I’m still teaching every summer at the… Read More ›

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