nocto

based on the content of this page, before i posted this entry, gender genie thinks i’m male. (i’m not.) the ton of numbers in the cataloging books post skew things, but i say ‘the’ and ‘a’ a lot more than ‘with’ or ‘for’ all the same.

i’m trying random other samples of things i’ve written but i haven’t found anything it recognises as female at all yet.

update: ok, i tried a couple of rambling email messages i’d written and it identified them as female. i also tried two messages written by my mum, two messages written by my dad and two messages written by my boyfriend. we’re all female apparently. which makes for an interesting family life.

the original article in nature says:

These differing styles have previously been called ‘informational’ and ‘involved’, respectively.

it seems to me that they were better left labelled so. it’s not really surprising that personal emails are ‘involved’ and website content is ‘informational’.

[found via the keyboard biologist]

about four years ago i had my wisdom teeth removed as they were generally buggering up my mouth and being rather hurty indeed. they’d done something to bugger up another of my back teeth and my dentist gave that tooth a temporary filling with a view to removing it at the same time as my wisdom teeth. when i went to see the dental surgeon who removed my wisdom teeth he didn’t think that other tooth needed removing so it got left in.

everything was fine for quite a while.

ages ago the ‘temporary filling’ came out, fair enough considering it’s name. and with being rather transient until the last few months i’ve never got around to going back to the dentist to get it fixed.

two days ago i found myself in the vicinity of a local dental practice and went in to register and make an appointment.

today i find fragments of my tooth swilling about my mouth with my tea.

did the dental receptionist put a curse on me or what?