The most wonderful time of the year! Where the sun is bright and hot and the soil is sandy and the dust is present… and the bucket price is not the same as the per-pound price.
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CEFR Research
This is just some links I collected on reading about CEFR.
https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams-and-tests/cefr/
Ketoconazole
For several years I have from time to time used Ketoconazole shampoo for my itchy face under my beard, and for my scalp, which can also itch. For about eight months now I have been using white vinegar instead. It seems to work better, last longer between treatments and in general cost less. Your mileage may vary. 
LaTeX Journeys
There are some really nice templates out there for Latex... I need to look at xLingPaper and then take a look at what I want to do and if I want to create a look-alike template in LaTeX. All things considered XLingPaper still pulls data nicely from FLEx. But I haven't used FLEx in a bit.
I really like CharisSIL and Linux Libertine. ACM two-column format really looks nice, in Libertine, but I haven't checked the linguistic symbols with it recently.
I'm a big Chicago (autor-date) fan...
https://abidsikder.com/blog/chicago-style-citation-and-bibliography-in-latex.html
https://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chicago/doc/biblatex-chicago.pdf
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/examples/the-chicago-citation-style-with-biblatex/pdqqrmwtdqpc
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6275/how-can-i-create-a-chicago-manual-of-style-formatted-document-in-latex
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/examples/bibliography-chicago-author-date-doi-suppressed/drrhkmbbmtbx
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/examples/bgu-endnotes-chicago-history-dept-template/hqycfypwjbwy
The taylor & Francis Interact template is really nice
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/taylor-and-francis-latex-template-for-authors-interact-layout-plus-chicago-reference-style/jfkyqxkxqhrs
https://eddelbuettel.github.io/rticles-gallery/tf_demo.pdf
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/taylor-and-francis-latex-template-for-authors-interact-layout-plus-chicago-reference-style/jfkyqxkxqhrs.pdf
Compiling a Proceedings in LaTeX
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/124942/constructing-conference-proceedings
Collection aboutness in OLAC
Defining aboutness of a collection is a challenge. From a philosophical point of view, this is even harder for collections in anthropological linguistics. These kinds of collections are not assembled for the sake of their "about-ness" but rather for the sake of their "is-ness". A collection in a museum might be about 19th century trains but such collections rarely contain the trains themselves. So, does this mean that linguistic collections are really about the people groups the speech is representing? and then the of-ness is the speech? Then linguists come along and write about the grammar of the language, and that is about the language? Often original stories will have an aboutness meaning which is never recorded in metadata. This needs to change.
This thought needs to be explored with MARC 655 $x and $v sub-fields. see: https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd655.html
https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd650.html
see email: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#sent/FMfcgzGsmrDLzSSBqXVPfKphwmdGhcZC
Our First Concert
We did it. We went to our first concert! Katja’s violin teachers were in the orchestra. So Katja and I went for the full effect of seeing the violin in use.
Zotero Pains… The “pre-print”
The massive pre-print industry has influenced Zotero to make their a specific category for pre-print. This is a cognitive fallacy which only exacerbates the citation and reference chaos.
Pre-prints are manuscripts.... There are hand-written manuscripts, there are typescript manuscripts and there are computer generated manuscripts... Zotero already has manuscripts as a category... no need to add a new category.
To make matters worse, Zotero imports PDFs when it can find open access versions of them. The problem is that it imports them to the article/publication type when they are pre-prints rather than to the pre-print item type. This make authority version management in Zotero nightmare. Classic case (try importing) : https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663914565848
I am still hopeful that Zotero staff will find a clean and easy way to automatically link pre-prints to their authority version records within Zotero.
The swimmers
Sometimes as a parent one has to encourage their child to do something their child doesn't want to do. That time can today. I had to pull teeth to get Katja to come to the pool with me today. I told her she only needed to swim 3 laps. After much cajoling we got to the car. By the time she got to the pool, she had a kick board and was off. I got a few laps in and she met me at the far wall of the 25 yard lane. She says to me: " I want to swim 12 laps". And so she did. So.. from poolside observer 4 years ago so swim partner today.
Building a discourse server
pfaffman/discourse-doi-resolver
https://meta.discourse.org/t/sign-in-to-discourse-using-orcid/105488/4
https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-category-experts/190814
https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-category-boxes/144865
https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentionables/192948 <-- content in OLAC
https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-guide-to-tags-in-discourse/121041
Position conversations within the OLAC search space.
https://blog.discourse.org/2021/11/discourse-forum-seo/
https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-support-google-structured-data-i-e-schema-org/58249
https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-seo-with-discourse/146655/4
https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-seo-with-discourse/146655/7
https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-sitemap/40348
This might be a way forward to an OAI-PMH repo: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-sitemap another option is to use a query mechanism in the JSON api to get all threads and treat these threads as resources for description. https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-rest-api-documentation/22706
I wonder how many layers a tag-group can have... https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Tags/operation/updateTagGroup
https://meta.discourse.org/t/locations-plugin/69742
Legal and privacy considerations:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/legal-tools-plugin/87966/26
Import from other discourse instances:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-download-and-restore-a-backup-of-your-discourse-database/122710
Self-hosting, self-managed, hosted, serviced,
https://meta.discourse.org/t/comparing-hosting-providers/100034/13
https://www.literatecomputing.com/discourse-server-maintenance/
https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-hosting-providers-for-self-hosters/79562
Pricing:
https://discourse.org/pricing
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md
Dedicated email:
https://messagebird.com/pricing/email-sending