Hi, how's things?

From pinyin.info:

Four characters: Hua she tian zu, Draw snake add feet. Means to do something superfluously out of a feeling of inadequacy. You’d think the Chinese have said it more economically, but all you need to do is know the back story. Four guys, one bottle of wine. They had a snake drawing competition to see who got it. One guy finished ( Read more... )

I don't seem to be exactly insomniac as missomniac. I went to bed three and a half hours ago, didn't try to go to sleep until now, and now I find that I'm more awake than I have been all day. But I know (from the experience of the last few days) that if I try a bit harder I can fall asleep for 9 hours or so. Sadly, I only need four hours sleep; ( Read more... )

Hi there, I'm going to Poland for two weeks, so that means even less posts than usual. I'll try not to eat 5x10^13 eggs this time.

Huh? What's happening to me? I went to bed at 12:30 last night, and got up at 8am.

(Yes, this post is a feeble attempt to initiate self-blogulation)

As you'll have noticed, I'm on hiatus from this blog. It's not permanent; the primordial urge to blog runs too strongly in my veins for me to stop. But rather, my life is on hiatus ( Read more... )

Most samesteads of every firststuff are unabiding. Their kernels break up, each at its own speed. This speed is written as the *half-life*, which is how long it takes half of any deal of the samestead thus to shift itself. The doing is known as *lightrotting*. It may happen fast or slowly, and in any of sundry ways, offhanging on the makeup of the ( Read more... )

Níl mé in ann dul a codlata aríst. Nuair a bhí mé i mo leaba, bhí mé ag feachaint ar na n-íomhánna ipneogoideacha agus ag smaoineamh faoi grammadach na Ghaelige, agus cén fáth nach scríobhaim iontráil i mo dhá (nó trí) bhloig níos coitianta. Mar a deir ˌser.ənˈdɪp.ɪ.ti,
j’ai un blogage.

Added the following to my userinfo page, in the "how did you hear about LJ bit?":

2 yrs ago: read slashdot >went to /. meetup >met a go player >joined goclub >met guy >found his blog.

Convoluted, but true.

(the guy was gustavolacerda)

Chuir mé an slíocht seo (ach as Béarla) ar mo leathanach fháisneas, sa bhosca "conas a chula tú faoi LJ?":

2 bhlian seo ( Read more... )