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Jaron Lanier You Are Not a Gadget

Thank you for visiting my virtual presence on the web. I created my first website on Geocities when I was an undergrad in 1995, which I updated sporadically over the 14 years or so of Geocities existence. My return to the United States in 2006, however, coincided with the emergence of social media such as Facebook and Twitter. So, instead of continuing to update my own website, I started using those sites extensively while failing to update my personal website. I was really inspired by Jaron Lanier's book, from which I pulled the above quote, and decided to rededicate myself to working on my personal website.

It includes:

About Me
My background, professional experience, and personal interests
Connect
Different ways to contact me in and out of cyberspace
日本語
A bio about myself, some short essays, and a presentation, all in Japanese.

In addition to stuff about myself, I also have published the following on this site:

Lexical Innovation in Endangered Languages
A website I created that discusses the process of lexical innovation and how it is a normal process in all languages, including endangered languages. I hope it can be of help to communities who are thinking about this process while formulating policies to awaken their languages. It also includes a small video database of new words in a variety of languages, both large and small. I am hoping to expand this database to include many more languages in the future.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Civil War History Circle
A list Ta-Nehisi Coates' blog posts and articles on the Civil War. (a more up to date list of posts can be found on absurdbeats' website)
The New Iwakura Mission
This is my personal blog, which has its own dedicated URL. The title comes from a blog that I wrote for my Japanese class at IR/PS, taught by Dr. Eiko Ushida. It is supposed to evoke a sense of global exploration and adventure. Whether it actually evokes that seems to depend on your opinion of Tomomi Iwakura. I really have no feelings either way, and am not even entirely sure if I came up with the name first or found the picture of Iwakura and Charles DeLong first, but, I like the name and the photo, so I decided to use it for my English language blog.