And where does your name rank?

For research or just for fun -- see how baby names track across the last 100 years -- with color graphs!

http://www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html

Did you hear about the parrot?

Specifically, an African Grey with a vocabulary of 950 words. He appears to have as much understanding as say a toddler, and this should open the eyes of all bird folk -- are you meeting your bird's need to explore, play, and learn?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3430481.stm

Home ---

By the way, home safe -- made it up and back without incident. Rie and I found we could work as roommates, which is always handy to know for future conventions!

Finishing up The Minnesota Trip tale, which I hope will go up today.

Let me know if I missed anything important.

Discussing languages created by a linguist who created worlds so someone would speak his languages

The professor would be pleased and amused, I think.

You know...if I had been just a bit more Tolkien-obsessed and a little less interested in my own dreams and stories, I might have ended up a PhD linguist writing as a hobby language books for created languages.