Notices by Nick Montfort (nickmofo@mastodon.social)

Today’s question in class: “How many of you have ever seen a dictionary? You know, the book?”

Silence.

“I visited galleries and museums throughout the city, looking for clues as to why my work had not been well received .... I eventually realized that visitors to galleries were being conditioned to assume that a simple reading of the text would instantly convey the message in language-based works ...” —Michael Winkler, The Image of Language, p. 110

This is not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrastive_focus_reduplication although it seems like it might be at first

For no reason at all, when trying to go to sleep last night, I remembered last night that, at one point long ago, I paid for the one type of FCC license that does not require a test. Thus, at one point I had an FCC callsign.

This morning in my inbox, almost five years after I paid for this license, is a renewal reminder from the FCC.