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Click here to read a graduation speech that I gave for the 2007 Berkeley linguistics department ceremony.
Click here for a--albeit silly--poem that I wrote for Sharon Inkelas's graduate phonology class in 2007.
Listen to these:
- Chick Corea, Leprechaun
- Milt Jackson, Joe Pass, Ray Brown, The Big Three
- Maria Schneider, Concert in a Garden
- Rene Marie, Serene Renegade
- Ella Fitzgerald, The Complete Ella in Berlin
- The Bad Plus, These are the Vistas
- Carmen McRae, The Great American Songbook
- Wayne Shorter, Native Dancer
- Chick Corea and Gary Burton, Crystal Silence
Read these:
- Card, Orson Scott. The Worthing Saga
- Dahl, Roald. Revolting Rhymes
- Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo
- Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold's Ghost
- Mistry, Rohinton. A Fine Balance
- Satrapi, Marjane. Chicken with Plums
Think about these:
- "If thine enemy wrongs thee, buy each of his children a drum." -Chinese proverb
- "Life consists of the little things; the important matter is to see them largely." -Otto Jesperson
- "We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." -Will Rogers
- "You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential." -ST:TNG
- "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." -Roald Dahl