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[Multilingual Monday[ Transliteration Woes
So let me be clear: I love non-Latin scripts. One of the joys I have in language study is learning to decode new scripts The "syllable building" of Korean, the root system of Arabic and Hebrew, the focus on meaning with Chinese characters -- they all fascinate me, and a bit of the personality and logic of a language can (usually!) be seen in its ( Read more... ) -
Where the hell is Regev Nyström?
So where the hell have I been, you may ask? :: laugh ::
Currently I have fredneckteddy in my house. He came in last night, and has been a wonderful houseguest. Carl and I have been purging the house of a lot of the unnecessities that have accumulated since we moved in, and spent the weekend giving thirteen bags of clothes to Goodwill, slashing our book ( Read more... ) -
[Geocache Adventures] Shit, The Fuzz!
I always geocache with Jamie -- she was even nice enough to take me over this past weekend to get me to ones she already found. At one point we were in Peoria Heights and my GPS was giving me some wrong readings and, already knowing the cache's location, said, "No, your GPS is wrong. I'll be your GPS. You're like 5 feet away." :: laugh ( Read more... ) -
Peoria Geocaching Checklist
- Finding things six floors up magnetically attached to buildings next door:
CHECK- Smoking parking lot dwarf:
CHECK- Another dwarf, drunk and insistent he's 5'4":
- CHECK
- Inebriated man asking me if I'm an A-rab:
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[Multilingual Monday Music] A Day Off
So yeah, today was a full day; it was the first day I've ever tried to geocache in Peoria and did so with slavetoreznor and Mika (who was no help whatsoever!). 2 out 5 isn't bad. Okay, technically it's failing, but we were damned excited about what we DID find ( Read more... )
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