Whoosh?

One of my biggest problems with the movies is that they made Elrond (and all of the other elves) so angry and stodgy, and completely ignored all of the joyful aspects of his character from the books. The elves, especially the Noldor, are a people defined by the way their joy for life is inextricably mixed with sorrow as they fight the long defeat, which is part of what makes them so compelling.

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I really liked minutes to midnight. A lot more introspective and mature.

A girl I was thinking about dating made lembas by making some slight modifications to shortbread cookies.

As for how it turned out, I married her.

Gotta love some good, old-fashioned eucatastrophe.

Same. Sauce ruins good fries.

If you took away the majority of the bacon this would be a really good breakfast 👍🏽

Dassinteresting!

I just use hyphens for everything.

I’m an older millennial and I have no idea who Cypress Hill is.

Too late. I’ve already switched all four of my home PCs to Linux Mint.

Starts typing gibberish in Microsoft Word because the magic hand still hasn’t told me how to get started coding.

You wouldn’t download a culture…

I can only speak for his linguistic works, but it’s odd how much clearer and more straightforward his earlier works are than his later ones. Syntactic structures and Aspects of a Theory of Syntax are easy enough that I’d even recommend them to Introduction to Syntax students, but starting with Lectures on Government and Binding things get increasingly obtuse to the point that I’d always recommend reading “translations” of his later works rather than the works themselves.

Edit for full transparency, since this comment is getting upvoted while Chomsky is getting blasted in the comments here: Don’t get me wrong, all of Chomsky’s linguistic work is incredibly brilliant. He single-handedly brought about a complete paradigm shift in the field of linguistics. G&B with all of the bells and whistles added by other researchers in the 80s and 90s is still the closest we’ve come to an actual explanatory theory of syntax, and X-bar theory is probably the single most elegant, ingenious innovation in the history of linguistics.

And that’s just syntax. I haven’t even mentioned how he and Morris Halle revolutionized phonology a few years later with The Sound Pattern of English, or how he also revolutionized grammar theory with the idea of context-free and context-dependent grammars the year before publishing Syntactic Structures, and all of this somehow still understates the enormous import of Chomsky’s linguistic work.

If anyone has any questions about Chomsky’s linguistic work, feel free to ask, and I’ll respond as best I can.

This, but unironically. Automation is a good thing, and every driver who loses their job over this drives the necessity of finding post-automation solutions that much closer to the breaking point.

Boomer minion meme vibes.