SA taking a tern for the worse this is a terrible birdflu joke

This is the fourth time I have made roast pork following www.recipetineats.com/pork-shoulde... and she is right, it really never misses. TL;DR prop up on cut onions, wine in pan, 2.5 hours at 140 fan, 30 mins at 250, rotating the pan. The gravy is the stuff of song and story.

I never really thought about Mr Snuffleupagus etymologically until today, but OE has 'snofl' = 'phlegm, mucus' and pagus is obviously from A.Gk φάγος = 'eater' Anyway I still have a sniffle and it is annoying me is what I'm saying

"basic" daal with red lentils (masoor dal) is possibly a thing more white ppl should know about? You just throw in whatever veg you have, it's tasty, and it's 20mins if you have a pressure cooker. This plus rice will sustain life, they eat it every day in Nepal.

lamb continues, daal begins

lamb forequarter chops reduced for quick sale. sometimes this is an excellent country! Curry night!

These different kind of elision are critical, but super nerdy. Basic scansion will teach people that the vowel is lost and the two words are kind of joined or slurred together. HOWEVER, elision of 'que' in particular does not work that way in Vergil's head!

I spent the day (with a cold, I hate winter, but also) experimenting with a new way to serially encode the metrical things I care about in Latin meter. I express syllable length and a couple of crucial metrical things (elision, prodelision) as a product of primes...

All of my rsvps this month are now: 😭 sorry 😅 attending 🤤 attending with wog soup

I would just like to say that this took ALL DAMN MORNING but once I started... There are 276 abbreviations used by hypotactic.com, many of which apply to only one line in the corpus 😭 These are just the ones with >100 lines #killme

You REDEFINE midrule? You redefine midrule like the serial killer? Oh Jail! JAIL for journal for one thousand years!!

This is kind of hilarious. Claude refuses to translate the obscene section of Ausonius' Cento Nuptialis, even though it is made up only of rearranged lines and half-lines from Vergil. Our new AI overlords are also moral censors, it seems. 🤪

idk if Brathähnchensehnsucht is a real word, but I had it acutely today. My terrible trick is to reduce 2 cups of chicken stock to 2tbsp and baste the skin with it to get proper kidney-unfriendly skin 🤤

they see me rollin' they hatin'

DISCOUNT LAMB ROAST!!1! If this doesn't get you excited you're not a real Aussie* 🤤 *non-eaters of meat for principled/religious reasons may still be 'real Aussies' as long as they eat Vegemite

Back on my charcoal bullshit (lamb chops, cut off the bone, divided into Fat and Lean, each skewer has Fat; 5x Lean; Fat. Seasoning is cumin (lots), garlic, and salt)

Stichic hexameter is green, top left, elegy is blue, under it and to the left. Bold labels are the 'middle' of that whole meter, italics are the middle of each author when writing in that meter (so Ovid appears twice)

Now, can we do authorship verification on poetry if all the authors are writing in the same meter ...mmmmmaybe. Across different meters? Absolutely the heck not. Nope, no, no, no. This is, putting it mildly, not obvious to most people. Meters are predators, and words are their prey.

In poetry-land, the metrical forces dominate the syntactic style, and they also ruin the 'stylometric hypothesis' for authorship. The same author writes completely differently in different meters. Here we can see e.g. Catullus and Statius are literally all over the map 🤪

this is "POS-masked" text, which, because it has the main content-words masked, is commly used for authorship attribution. However, 🚨POETRY IS NOT PROSE🚨 Here's what happens if you cluster in that space but colour by meter: (Plautus and Terence are huge outliers due to archaic language)

today I took the whole afternoon off and skipped my run. Just listened to music, read a book made of paper, and tended the grill 🥰

I have now learned why I couldn't buy firelighter cubes anywhere. In Thailand we buy thin slivers of resinous pine from the roadside banana lady instead. Fewer chemical and smells incredible, too!

This has been murdering me, honestly. Doing an 'ok' job of masking Latin verse is not too bad, but trying to get as good as possible (within the limits of frontier POS tagging) is surprisingly fiddly. Lots of clitic issues (not even there yet with -ve and -ne) lots of general annoying 'stuff'

I am a huge fan of Maciej Eder's bootstrap consensus network visualisations, but mostly they are only available via stylo (R) + Gephi. So, I finally did the work to get a pure python version (yes, agentic assisted) that doesn't look like crap, and built it into my BDI package github.com/bnagy/bdi

New charcoal grill! Still getting the temperatures dialled in, so wings are a very forgiving choice...

they do not bite they do not sting but full of all-consuming love they seek the light and die and die in vain (they also get in my wok if I'm cooking which gives me the absolute shits)