Mark J

@tabletopaudio.com I don't have access to the article, so you may not either, but this is a link to some research about what you do! I thought you might be interested.

online.ucpress.edu/jsmg/article...

ワッタファクトリー？！

#TodayIHeard #ExcellentExpletives #CreativeLanguageBorrowing

TIL: epistolary means letter-writing. I feel like past me knew that. I am, however, now me, who does know that.

Recently I saw a citation that used (The Authors, Date) !!! I love it. No idea where that article is now though, 😔 sorry.

In terms of setting, the planescape factions were quite interesting, but that's not a system as much as world building content.

Lady bug imposters, slugs, and cucurbit leaf beetles have been spotted. I am hoping the plants are resilient enough and my predator ecosystem is strong enough that my plants survive the pressure. We'll see.

I do have some fermented weed tea I could apply, I doubt anything would approach that smell

The garden progresses!

Potatoes and burdock are growing well. Just cleared five of my large piles of cut grass which gave me perfect small spaces of bare earth to plant out my cucumbers and pumpkins.

Next I need to get the nightshades in.

Interesting point. I missed that interpretive fork

That is a really long sentence. But it's mostly just a bunch of prepositional phrases.

I think South Korea gets an honorable mention, too. I can never remember the corner details... But I think they're supposed to represent earth, water, wind, fire.

Can't remember source, but IIRC a good flag should also be describable by a young child in a few sentences and easy to reproduce accurately. US and Brazil not so much. Japan and Canada, yes!

Greeking Out

every SINGLE day, I wake up more and more of a luddite, and just filled with a growing contempt for AI fetishists in academia, like the author of this piece

Poster for the 2025 Ludic Language Pedagogy Annual Symposium happening on the LLP discord from 10 am to 6 pm Japan standard time on match 15, 2025. QR code embedded in image

An excellent online research symposium coming up in March. Free for all to join. I'll be presenting about my own approach to playful pedagogy as well as a simple online tool for storytelling games.

#Ludic #Language #Pedagogy
#EduSky #AcademicSky

There's a silly grammar problem about John had had had had something or the other. It's totally implausible in actual communication, but amusing as a grammatical thought experiment.

I'm too lazy to look up the actual sentence.

Similar to the Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo sentence.

Malazan?

#academicsky 🧪 ⚗️

I really liked this one. Pleasantly surprised at the sound of whetting.

Very happy to find Tabletop Audio here on Bluesky! I love Tim's work. I often play these tracks when I'm playing board games with my kids. If you haven't encountered this beautiful corner of the Internet yet, you're in for a treat.

#TTRPG #TRPG #BoardGame #Ambience

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I lol'd at #superbOwl cuz you know, the sports event.

They're around! Looking, exploring, poking. My own kids aren't super interested, but they like digging and using scary looking tools.

One possible future income stream involves extracurricular agroecological activities integrated into English lessons. That would be intensely kids involved.

Add me if you like.

Ohh, thanks for the warning!

I have seen them doing aphid farming on occasion... I'll make sure not to put all my eggs in one basket... Or hugel

Plotting out the beds, building the trellises, sowing the first round of seeds, getting starts growing in the green house for later transplants, assembling the hugels, mulching and laying cat deterrent sticks.

There is much glorious labor ahead. Mindfulness and exercise, connection and purpose.

Getting the garden ready feels wonderful. Materials assembled: trimmed branches for poles and trellises, rotting wood and ant nesty logs for hugelkultur, dried grass and and weeds raked for mulch. Compost pile turned. Seed trays ready and seeds selected.

Next steps are many ...

Likewise, except with zotero in libreoffice. Open source, community supported libre software for freedom and not feeding the rich.

Zotero is going strong It is now up to version 7.

So, now we have to talk about the things in such an erudite circumlocutory manner that the assholes don't realize we're still getting on with the same business, just over their heads?

Alas, if only it were so simple...

Not an insider, or a hirer, but one clear benefit is the view of a person as a social being from an outsiders perspective. That's a valuable perspective when hiring someone into a collegial group.