Indistinguishable from Jesse

Most of my "typos" add extra words:

mozilla crashes at with the instruction pointer at an address not in its address space. [bug 157845]

my high school has a comedy sportz team. the team and an informal club that exists around it, and my brother is part of that.

I think my typo pattern has to do with my typing style. I don't compose entire sentences in my head before I start typing them, and I edit heavily. I edit sentences as I type them. For example, a few sentences ago, I typed "before typing them[Ctrl+Left][Ctrl+Left][Ctrl+Shift+Right]starting to type [End]". Later I changed "starting to type" to "I start typing".

I also move information between sentences in order to keep any sentence from being too complicated and to eliminate parenthetical phrases. When I'm done typing a paragraph, there are often lots of unnecessary parentheses around sentences, which I remove. Sometimes I spend more keypresses editing than typing new sentences.

In the first example, I probably typed "mozilla crashes at an address not in its address space" at first, and then realized I should make it clear that the instruction pointer was what was at an address not in Mozilla's address space. In the second example, I remember that the two sentences used to be one sentence, but I don't know how to explain the error.

Erika Rice also makes strange typos:

After about an hour we got bored (or, in my Case, started to get headaches) so we grabbed some other people and went and watched "Office Space" in the lack.

(Case is a dorm at Mudd and the LAC is the Linde Activities Center.)

I use a program called Sharescan to search the Windows network at Mudd. I have found students sharing archived mail, friends' backup CDs, photos of themselves naked, and entire hard drives. I usually look through the data to determine the owner and remind them that the Windows network is for sharing music inform them that they're sharing data that they probably weren't intending to share.

Today Selene told me over AIM that my shared folder was world-writable. Then she told me my printer was also shared and printed a page saying "Wuzza!" using my printer.

Twice this week I have witnessed Mudd students recommending Mozilla Firebird to other Mudd students. Both students mentioned pop-up blocking and tabbed browsing. One also mentioned themes, Flash Click to View and other extensions, and the customizable search bar (he uses IMDb and dictionary.com in addition to Google).

MIT Perceptual Science Group: lightness; interaction between motion and form

Akiyoshi Kitaoka: static images that appear to move

The idioms "anything but" and "all but" have confused me as long as I can remember. Now I know why: they have nearly opposite meanings.

• Cambridge ALD definitions for all but, anything but
• Bruce Todd tries to explain the idioms
• An English test for Japanese students (charset: Shift_JIS):

  13. That boy is (　　　) a great trouble to his parents.
  A. all but　 B. anything but　 C. not but　 D. nothing but

• An English test for Chinese students:

  27. It was such a dangerous scene: the boy was ____ drowned in the river just now.
  A. nothing but B. all but C. anything but D. but that

Google searches used: "anything but" "all but" idioms (lots of results, mostly noise), "all but * anything but" (only 16 results, but some were relevent).

These idioms do not appear in any of the idiom dictionaries I have:

• NTC's American Idioms Dictionary
• NTC's Slang American Style (generally the most useful of the three)
• Betty Kirkpatrick's Clichés

From an e-mail titled "Terror Warning 3/18/03" and sent to all Mudd students:

The President of the United States has announced his intention to remove the current leadership of Iraq. As a result, the intelligence community believes there is a high probability of large and small-scale attacks that could involve mass casualties and seek to cause maximum economic, psychological and symbolic impact. Reports from Los Angeles County of Emergency Management, State Office of Emergency Services, and the Federal Department of Homeland Security suggest that terrorists may attempt multiple attacks against U.S. and allied targets.

Officials have expressed particular concern about buildings, subways, and other enclosed areas. There is also concern about Iraqi sleeper agents proficient in assassinations, kidnappings, and bombings.

To address the increased level of threat, the Department of Homeland Security has raised the national Terrorism Threat Level to Orange-Plus Alert (High).

Recommendations

In response to specific recommendations from the Department of Homeland Security, the HMC Incident Management Team suggests that as far as possible, we:

Limit visitor access to buildings and school campuses to a single entry point.

Effective Wednesday, March 19, 2003, limit access to each building to the main entrance. All other entrances will require key or combo access.

The "one unlocked door per building" policy was not implemented well. One building has a glass wall with many doors along it, and even there only one door was unlocked. The unlocked door for a building at the edge of campus faced a street rather than the rest of campus.

But even with those minor problems fixed, the policy was silly because it introduced inconvinience without protecting us at at all. The policy was killed within 3 or 4 weeks.

What security measures or "security" measures have you been affected by?

I connected to IRC soon after getting up on September 11. I didn't usually do that. My first class was at 8:10.

Session Start: Tue Sep 11 07:50:09 2001
[07:50] *** Now talking in #mozillazine
[07:50] *** Topic is 'Planes crash into world trade center's twin towers, Pentagon | http://www.abc.net.au/streaming/newsradio.ram Live Audio'
[07:50] *** Set by Hendikins on Tue Sep 11 06:52:42
[07:50] <ksosez> oh my goc
[07:50] <ksosez> god
[07:50] <ksosez> Jesse you okay?
[07:50] <nvs81> free to air tv does me good
[07:50] <rkaa> ...we have a report that ...airplane..pennsylvania...747...no details yet..but it's crashed southeast of pittsburg
[07:50] <ksosez> yeah i hear that
[07:51] <grissu> 2nd plane flying to pentagon !!!!!
[07:51] *** Hendikins changes topic to 'Planes crash into world trade center's twin towers, Pentagon | http://www.abc.net.au/streaming/newsradio.ram Live Audio [DOWN]&#15;'
[07:51] <Anthem> Arafat condemns plane attacks in U.S. - Reuters
[07:51] <sodapop3k> whoa.
[07:51] <Jesse> ksosez: yes, why?
[07:51] <doron> Anthem: he condemns everything
[07:51] <rkaa> poor sod
[07:51] <grissu> 2nd plane flying to pentagon !!!!!
[07:51] <Anthem> 10:48am 09/11/01 BOEING 767 CRASHES NORTH OF SOMERSET COUNTY AIRPORT
[07:52] <Hendikins> Jesse: read topic

How did you find out about the September 11 attacks?

I learned a cool word in my Acquisition of Language class this week: motherese, speech that is high-pitched, repetitive, simple, and typically directed at young children.

I found a message from Steven Pinker about the term (and 8 synonyms or related terms). He also talks about an early version of the American Heritage Dictionary's definition for "child-directed speech".

Pinker prefers the term "child-directed speech", saying it is the most transparent. I prefer "motherese" because it is clearly a term and therefore must refer to some phenomenon worth naming. "Child-directed speech" could be mistaken to mean "any speech directed at a child". "Child-directed speech" tries to be more inclusive, but still misses the fact that people also use it when talking to cats. I also prefer "motherese" because it's short, easy to remember, and slightly silly.