- My latest blog entry
- !!! The long project to make available the Catford Lectures on line is finished!! Thanks to Professor Ian Catford and University of Michigan's English Language Institute, Bentley Library, and DeepBlue, the 8 lectures by Professor Catford on his fascinating life in linguistics, given on the occasion of his retirement in 1985, are available on the web. Check: http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/57759
- MICASE rewrite finished! I wrote the first
implementation of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English web application
in 2001 while working for the University of Michigan's Digital Library. I
just recently finished the rewrite of the application for a new search engine.
See the MICASE page
and history for
some information.
- A favorite poem, in Lunfardo: Musa
Rea
- annarborpublicschools.org: Read
the story of a parody website set up to call attention to the Ann Arbor
School District's mismanagement and secrecy . I was also interviewed
by "Homeless
Dave" about the website. Read
the interview.
- The
Rape of Reason in Ann Arbor: what the unregulated Ann Arbor
Public School District has done to the environment, the Greenbelt, the
economically disadvanted students in the district; how they've created
a traffic disaster in the process. Other evidence of mismanagement, secrecy
and corruption continue to come to light.
- Article about
my steel playing in the University of Michigan's University Record
- Recent Photos
- Music:
- Work
- Family news
- Interests and hobbies (past and present): Chinese Calligraphy,
running, calligraphy, kite flying, cooking (Indian, Chinese, Italian),
bread baking, beer making (hobby and professional), beekeeping, music (Celtic,
Swing, Country, Western Swing, Jazz, Bluegrass, Tango), instruments (guitar,
banjo, fiddle, pedal steel), martial arts (Aikido, Karate), languages (English,
Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese), Linguistics,
computer programming, knot-tying, needlework (knitting, weaving, needlepoint,
bobbin lace).
- Language / Linguistics
/ Culture
- See Esther's web sites. www.estherkirshenbaum.com for
serious artwork and www.funandfunctionalart.com
for fun, functional, commercial products
- Skepticism and Atheism
and Reason
- Beekeeping:
- A project I was involved in to bring Ann Arbor
neighborhood honey to the world! Tree
Town Bees.
- Other beekeeping links here.
- Malt
- Writings
- Food
- Dogs
- Travel
- Photos from
the Dec. 2004/Jan. 2005 trip to Argentina
- Photos from
my 2004 trip to Argentina to visit the family
- Photos from
my 2001 trip to Argentina to visit the family
- Scotland Travel Log: compiled
from notes taken during a great trip to Scotland in 1993.
- While traveling in Japan, in 1981, I met a
kind-hearted man. Adachihara-sensei and Kusakari
Juu-ji-gun. An amazing person. At 76, he has more energy than any
ten 25 year olds. A full-length film was recently made of his "crusade." I
need to get information about him on this site ... as soon as I have
time....
- Misc other links
- Books
- Quotes
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