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Okay, I just submitted my first abstract for a presentation at a linguistics conference. [:|] Feeling kind of like this penguin, which I can only presume was butchered and gibbeted as a warning to others immediately after these photos were taken.

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I assumed the penguin killed and dissected the scientists.

It's possible I have read At the Mountains of Madness too often...
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Salmoneus wrote: 01 Oct 2019 00:55 I assumed the penguin killed and dissected the scientists.

It's possible I have read At the Mountains of Madness too often...
No, I suppose you're right. If I get turned down, instead of wallowing in self-pity I should just pingu up and start preparing my next presentation, Ex Vivo Examination of the Human Vocal Apparatus in the People Who Rejected my Previous Abstract - Let's see how lucky you're feeling this time, Reviewer #2.
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Passed my Ph.D. defense a little less than two weeks ago. Still feels strange to have done so.
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vampireshark wrote: 24 Oct 2019 01:00 Passed my Ph.D. defense a little less than two weeks ago. Still feels strange to have done so.
Congratulations!
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vampireshark wrote: 24 Oct 2019 01:00 Passed my Ph.D. defense a little less than two weeks ago. Still feels strange to have done so.
Congrats!

Are you experiencing an odd, hollow feeling from having so much free time?
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Hi everyone i haven't talk in the boards actually in... A while, how's everyone doing?

Also strength for the bearded dragon, my dad's 17 year old dog is undergoing a similar process and i totally feel you.
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loglorn wrote: 01 Nov 2019 23:50 Hi everyone i haven't talk in the boards actually in... A while, how's everyone doing?

Also strength for the bearded dragon, my dad's 17 year old dog is undergoing a similar process and i totally feel you.
Hihi,

I haven’t been very active on here either lately. Since last night, I’ve been jotting down some ideas about Húú, Híí’s long-dormant sisterlang. What have you been up to?
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Xonen wrote: 30 Sep 2019 21:09 Okay, I just submitted my first abstract for a presentation at a linguistics conference. [:|] Feeling kind of like this penguin, which I can only presume was butchered and gibbeted as a warning to others immediately after these photos were taken.
Heh, what I find happens pretty often is that your talk goes just fine but no one asks an actually relevant followup question, including the old timers sitting in the front row. Then again, it makes it that much more rewarding when people come to talk to you afterwards about your work.
vampireshark wrote: 24 Oct 2019 01:00 Passed my Ph.D. defense a little less than two weeks ago. Still feels strange to have done so.
Well done. I hope you've found time to properly relax afterwords.

I've been totally overworked myself for the whole autumn, working on several different papers at the same time. I just resubmitted a substantial revision report to a Nature manuscript. Fingers crossed. It turned out extending into 2+13+2 pages of responses to the editor and the referees, all for a letter that mustn't in any case exceed over four pages (though excluding a freer online only method section). The ridiculous thing with these letters is that even with substantial answers to the referees' questions, you often end up only adding or altering one or two sentences per question in the manuscript itself, since there just isn't any more free space to spare. At least it's been a good exercise in concise writing.
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DesEsseintes wrote: 02 Nov 2019 05:16 Hihi,

I haven’t been very active on here either lately. Since last night, I’ve been jotting down some ideas about Húú, Híí’s long-dormant sisterlang. What have you been up to?
Well lately (as in the last two and half years) all my langing and worlding creativity has been direct at Sahar (CWS's collabworld). Most recently i did some scripting, which i posted on the discord (noticed you haven't been there lately Des) and yesterday i came up with sound changes for another language for Shohai (one of my countries in the Sahar collabworld), i'll post a comparative sample here (the three languages of Shohai i have sound changes for, the most recent one top):

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xeránene nganeráslustray omó exéroma
shangenge hangyáathukay omó eshóma
yãkenge ãyálukway omó e'éma
As for Real Life matters, i'm in my second first year of university, still a bit far from those Ph.D. defense shenanigans, thought i plan to be there one day [:P]
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loglorn wrote: 05 Nov 2019 18:58 on the discord (noticed you haven't been there lately Des)
I should pop in and say hi soon.

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xeránene nganeráslustray omó exéroma
shangenge hangyáathukay omó eshóma
yãkenge ãyálukway omó e'éma
Looks familiar - I think you showed that last one to me a while back? [:D]
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*sighs*

Well, finally got banned from the ZBB.
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Salmoneus wrote: 25 Nov 2019 23:57 *sighs*

Well, finally got banned from the ZBB.
Tempban though, right?
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sangi39 wrote: 26 Nov 2019 09:12
Salmoneus wrote: 25 Nov 2019 23:57 *sighs*

Well, finally got banned from the ZBB.
Tempban though, right?
So it seems. It's kind of difficult to tell, though (at least as an occasional lurker), just what logic that place operates on these days... Although I guess one rule that fairly consistently gets enforced on pretty much any platform on the net is "don't talk back to the admin when they're clearly having a bad day". [¬.¬]
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gach wrote: 03 Nov 2019 20:39
vampireshark wrote: 24 Oct 2019 01:00 Passed my Ph.D. defense a little less than two weeks ago. Still feels strange to have done so.
Well done. I hope you've found time to properly relax afterwords.
Thanks. Had a few weeks to relax while brother visited, but now it's back to work, though things aren't very... well, normal as of late. Long story short is that they're having to do a lot of lab rearrangement, which means that I can't go into the lab to work. Not hugely problematic, as I had to take a lot of time to work through thesis corrections (I'm trying to get the final thesis handed in ASAP, but I'm waiting for one last person to sign off!).

Also working on papers as well, including starting for an invited (!) article. (And by invited, oddly enough, I got a personal invitation.) And this is balanced with job search activities: the job I tried for in Luxembourg didn't work out, and since my research doesn't mesh too well with the current landscape, I'm looking elsewhere (Germany, France, Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK...).
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My mouth on the dew of your thigh...

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vampireshark wrote: 29 Nov 2019 00:13 Also working on papers as well, including starting for an invited (!) article. (And by invited, oddly enough, I got a personal invitation.) And this is balanced with job search activities: the job I tried for in Luxembourg didn't work out, and since my research doesn't mesh too well with the current landscape, I'm looking elsewhere (Germany, France, Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK...).
Now there's a difference between academic fields. I don't think in our field invited articles are even a thing beyond lengthy review papers. Another difference is, of course, that the closest thing to lab work I have is traveling to a telescope twice a year (actually leaving again tomorrow). We are using a pretty much private instrument, so apart from running the observations I also have to install the instrument on my own, which is good fun.

What is the same is the agony of applying for positions. Quite often you can't even be sure which country you'll be living in within a few years. A colleague of mine (in Germany) is looking for his next position and decided not to apply for an opening in New Mexico since he thought that that's too remote. Well, now he's nevertheless having an interview to Hawaii.
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Today I thought of my friend John Hensle, July 5, 1993 - December 5, 2016.

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There is quite a bit of variety in terms of the possible physical states of matter, but more than half of them require extreme cold or heat and/or extreme pressure. In everyday Earth conditions however, four basic or classical types can be identified:

* solid ("earth")
* liquid ("water")
* gas ("air")
* plasma ("fire")
Xonen wrote: 26 Nov 2019 20:28 So it seems. It's kind of difficult to tell, though (at least as an occasional lurker), just what logic that place operates on these days... Although I guess one rule that fairly consistently gets enforced on pretty much any platform on the net is "don't talk back to the admin when they're clearly having a bad day". [¬.¬]
I think a better rule of thumb is, don't write arguments that attack something the admin likes, or defend something he hates. And Sal unfortunately is exactly the kind of guy that likes to philosophize around the controversial, searching for the good in what he thinks is bad, and the bad in what he thinks is good. Sigh, philosophers.

It doesn't surprise me he was banned in the context of making a negative evaluation of the stated official reasons for Trump's impeachment, questioning whether the Democrats followed the spirit of the law. As part of the post, Sal wrote a horrible imaginary scenario involving a ZBBer in order to attack the Congress's conception of the law, and the admin took it to be a fantasy Sal wished to be true. Sal asked the admin to re-read the post to understand what he actually wrote, but I don't think that was the problem. I assume Sal questioning the stated basis of the impeachment is ultimately the real reason for his ban. *shrugs*

(Personally I find the impeachment unsurprising considering that spiteful clown of a president, but it is a hopeless effort when a supermajority is needed in the Senate. It is remarkable that polls show ~45% of the country is in favour of it and ~45% is against, obviously along the usual binary American political line. I'm skeptical that the impeachment will even weaken his reelection chances, or do anything at all. The US, what a damn polarized country...)
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