http://www.iamcal.com/ All the links rom iamcal.com 2019-12-12T00:38:41Z http://www.iamcal.com/images/logo.gif http://www.iamcal.com/ http://www.iamcal.com/2019-12/10145/ <p>I managed to miss this the first time around - Gretchen McCulloch explains <a href="https://the-toast.net/2014/02/06/linguist-explains-grammar-doge-wow/">the grammar behind Doge</a></p> 2019-12-12T00:38:41Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2017-12/esolangquiz/ <p>Way back in July, I was inspired by Tripelbyte's <a href="https://quiz.triplebyte.com/language-identification/">language identification quiz</a>, so I made <a href="https://esolangquiz.iamcal.com/">my own version for esoteric languages</a>. Never got around to sharing it outside of Slack, but here it is.</p> 2017-12-11T23:29:26Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-06/truth-will-out/ <p>After seeing <a href="http://mlkshk.com/p/FK9H">this post</a> on MLKSHK, I want to find out if it was true - are there really that many phrases in modern use that were coined by Shakespeare? Turns out it's <a href="http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phrases-sayings-shakespeare.html">mostly true</a>, with many of them being Shakespeare originals and a few more being popularised by him.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="http://mlkshk.com/p/FK9H"><img src="/images/blog/fk9h.jpg" width="281" height="450" /></a></p> 2012-06-15T19:52:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-11/2394/ <p>this investigation into <a href="http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/opinions/a_common_nomenclature_for_lego_families.php">lego nomenclature</a> is excellent. remember having similar issues building something with a friend when young. you know, a "light frame"!</p> 2009-11-05T01:01:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-09/2340/ <p>old, but still good: <a href="http://p-nand-q.com/humor/programming_languages/java2k.html">Java2K</a> uses a 11-based number system, which is a very good approximation of the 10-based decimal system for many purposes, including counting up to and including 9.</p> 2009-09-19T19:19:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2008-11/2043/ <p>the septic's companion (a guide to british words, for americans) has a <a href="http://septicscompanion.com/dictionary/buybook.html">book out</a>. it's pretty good. buy it for your seppo friends</p> 2008-11-20T21:58:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2008-10/1968/ <p>ok, i'm totally in love with <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionary.html">erin mckean</a>. a great presenter on an interesting topic</p> 2008-10-03T20:44:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2008-04/1608/ <p>a useful <a href="http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/BritishCanadianAmerican.htm">reference</a> as i forget how to spell completely</p> 2008-04-22T15:17:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2005-11/1093/ <p>from a php disucssion at work: "If you're willing to continually do the heavy lifting of ensuring that your version of Smalltalk96 on Rails stays concurrent with the latest patches". omg, how awesome would that be?</p> 2005-11-18T20:09:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2005-11/1087/ <p><a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/intercal/paper.html">a paper</a> about intercal. very nice</p> 2005-11-17T07:25:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/)