habitually probing generalist

The technology of orgasm: “hysteria,” the vibrator, and women’s sexual satisfaction Rachel P. Maines; The Johns Hopkins University Press 1998 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder I really wanted to title this “universal orgasmic mutuality” [see below] but I figure this post is already going to draw too much of the wrong traffic to my blog. ::sigh:: This book [...]

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Sunday, 9 Mar 2008 Smith, L. C. (1981). ‘Memex’ as an image of potentiality in information retrieval research and development In , Proceedings of the 3rd annual ACM conference on Research and development in information retrieval (pp. 345-369). Cambridge, England: Butterworth & Co. Linda cited this article when talking about her research on a panel [...]

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Sunday, 27 Jan 2008 Nonmonotonic Logic. Leora Morgenstern. MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Suggested by fellow classmate Tom Dousha for additional elucidation for Ontologies Development. Highly understandable resource for non-experts in logic, although having a basic grasp probably helps. Sunday – Wednesday, 27 – 30 Jan 2008 Harris, Roy, and International Association for the Integrational [...]

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Sunday, 20 Jan 2008 Hjørland, B., & Albrechtsen, H. (1995). Toward a New Horizon in Information Science: Domain-Analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 46, 400-425. Re-read for bibliography. Monday, 21 Jan 2008 Liddy, Elizabeth D. “Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery.” In Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, [...]

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Sunday, 13 Jan 2008 Toolan, Michael. 1997. A Few Words on Telementation. Language Sciences 19, no. 1:79-91. I had read this before (28 Oct 07) as it is in: Harris, Roy, and George Wolf, eds. Integrational Linguistics: A First Reader. 1st ed, Kidlington, Oxford, UK: Pergamon, 1998. Sunday – Monday, 13 – 14 Jan 2008 [...]

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Sunday, 30 Dec – Tuesday, 1 Jan Toolan, Michael J. 1996. Total Speech: An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press. Finished Ch. 4: Further Principles of Integrational Linguistics, or, On Not Losing Sight of the Language User Monday, 31 Dec 2007 New Years’ Eve Harris, Roy. 2005. The Semantics of Science. [...]

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I went to Falls Church, Virginia to visit family and friends 20 – 29 December. I got home yesterday evening. Drove to Bloomington (1 hour) and flew through Detroit to Dulles and back again. Going out of Bloomington vs. Champaign is about $150 cheaper round trip and parking is free, which is a substantial savings. [...]

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Late last year I decided to participate in a reading challenge (2007 TBR) that I found at Joy Weese Moll’s blog, Wanderings of an online librarian. I generally don’t do these sorts of things but when I had looked back over 2006 at the hundreds of article I had read I found that I had [...]

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This has been a very light week due to my visiting relatives and friends in the Washington, DC area. Toolan, Michael J. 1996. Total Speech: An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press. Finish Ch. 1: On Inscribed or Literal Meaning (21-25 Dec) Ch. 2: Metaphor (26 – 29 Dec) Ch. 3: [...]

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Sunday, 18 Nov Norman, Richard. “Holy Communion.” Eurozine [First published in New Humanist 6/2007]. Discusses New Wave Atheism and how it is aggressively antagonistic to religion, which is the wrong way to proceed. I most certainly agree with this. When recent books by Dawkins, Hitchens and others began coming out I was excited at first. [...]

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