Orin Hargraves: the Cyberhome


One-stop shopping for everything you might want to do to, for, or with him.

Business before pleasure:
 my page at PublishersMarketplace.com
is the place to go for information about my working life in lexicography, lexical research, and other stuff I do for money. Haven't got any money? 
Come anyway, maybe we can do a deal.


Orin's online resume (or CV if you call it that)
provides a nongraphic version of the above.

Are you looking for the presentation I gave at the DSNA conference in Bloomington (May 2009)? Here's the abstract, where you'll also find links to the presentation:
Lumping, Splitting, and Natural Language Processing:
Machine-readable Dictionaries and NLP


Statistics from Google reveal that most people get to this page by searching on the phrase "who owns english". Here's why! A paper I published a few years ago:
Who Owns English?


Man does not live by lexicography and writing about language alone, and for
that, there is this other writing: some of it not available anywhere but on this link!
Orin's Oeuvre Groove


You can buy books that I've written (thereby contributing to my modest income stream and perhaps helping to obviate an undignified descent into geriatric poverty) on Amazon.com! Most of them are on this link.


I'm the book review editor of Dictionaries, the journal of
the Dictionary Society of North America.
If you wish to bring to my attention a title for possible review in the journal
please email me on this link.
You can also join the Dictionary Society (the One True Way to
show your love of dictionaries) by visiting its blog.


If you want to check out pictures I've taken
(as I grapple with a smarter-than-me digital camera)
you can go to Orin's (a.k.a. Oculator's) page at Flickr.com


I'm a trustee and volunteer cook and administrator at the at
the International Meditation Center, a residential Buddhist retreat center
in rural Maryland. Fancy a removal from your quotidian reality? Check it out!
International Meditation Center USA


Coming for a visit? Here's what to look for if you're doing a flyover:

View Larger Map
Yeah, all that dark green stuff is really trees! On public land! We can go for a walk in the forest and then eat cookies and stuff like that.


You can read my monthly column on words and language if you take out a very modestly priced subscription to the Visual Thesaurus. Thousands do!
The Visual Thesaurus


If you want to hear me sing (few have expressed the wish),
check out the concert schedule of the Mastworks Chorale:
Masterworks Chorale of Carroll County


Are we related? If your surname is Hargraves and you live in or have ancestors in
the Big Thicket, there's a pretty good chance of it. See entry number 8 on
Hargraves Lineages


Are we connected? Here's my proflie on LinkedIn, which so far has not netted me a single gig, but it seems to be a good place to connect with colleagues:
LinkedIn Profile


Facebook? Yeah, I waste time there too. I'm happy to connect there with old friends
(high school, college, London, Peace Corps, etc.) and new friends:
My page (subject to periodic adjustments) on Facebook


If you want to talk to me or propose something unusual, start here!
Straight to my Inbox

This is Abdul.

Thanks, and see ya later!