{"id":51428,"date":"2021-07-07T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T11:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=51428"},"modified":"2021-07-07T06:31:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T11:31:04","slug":"interfaces-and-interactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=51428","title":{"rendered":"Interfaces and Interactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going through a box of papers from years ago, I found one of <a href=\"https:\/\/lsa.umich.edu\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/core-faculty\/thomason.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sally Thomason<\/a>'s famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~thomason\/Doodles\/doodles.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">doodles<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/SallyThomason2001.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/SallyThomason2001.png\" width=\"490\" title=\"Click to embiggen\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I've set it aside to be framed and hung, facing the <a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/HaidaFrog.jpg\">Haida frog<\/a> that was a gift a decade earlier from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucc.ie\/en\/speech\/staff\/acad\/drnicolabessell\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicola Bessel<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The doodle was in a folder containing the plastic overhead-projector transparencies from a talk I gave at the University of Michigan in 2001, along with the program for the event, which included two days of talks under the general heading of \"<a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/MichiganEvent2001.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interfaces and Interactions in the Future of Linguistics<\/a>\". Verifying the connection is Sally's note on the reverse of the image:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/SallyThomason2001a.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/SallyThomason2001a.png\" width=\"490\" title=\"Click to embiggen\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/MichiganAnniversary2001.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scanned the slides<\/a>, out of historical curiosity &#8212; it's interesting to see how things have developed since the long-ago era of the Overhead-Projector Culture. Which followed the Chalkboard Culture, the Slide Carousel Culture, and the Handout Culture, and preceded the Digital Projector Culture.<\/p>\n<p>The transitions between these eras were sometimes tricky. Early in the Overhead Projector period, when the plastic transparencies were the norm in industry but not yet widely used in academia, I gave at talk at the University of Toronto. They didn't have an overhead projector, and I was ready to fall back on the chalkboard, when someone came up with an \"<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Opaque_projector\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Opaque Projector<\/a>\", which was a large metal box about the size of a washing machine, in which a very bright internal light source illuminated the contents of the box and projected the image through a set of lenses onto a remote screen. <\/p>\n<p>It worked fine until halfway through the first slide, when the projected image showed the transparency melting and catching fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going through a box of papers from years ago, I found one of Sally Thomason's famous doodles: I've set it aside to be framed and hung, facing the Haida frog that was a gift a decade earlier from Nicola Bessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistic-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51428"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51440,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51428\/revisions\/51440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}