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Sensible Toddler Observation
“She's the doughnut fairy. She gives doughnuts to everyone.” -Iris, age 3 -
is this thing on?
an apology: i pretty much stopped reading and posting to lj back when i started work on my new job (or maybe the job before that? or even the one before that?), and i still don't read nearly enough. anyhow, i will attempt to follow updates but at this point i probably won't be able to assimilate the backlog.
fortunately rebbyribs keeps the new baby twin ( Read more... ) -
translations, please!
iris: “ploot!” “i just plooted.” “you did a ploot ( Read more... ) -
single-track gray codes with evenly spaced heads
Gray codes (so-called, despite having been used by Émile Baudot in the original Baudot code and its evolution, the International Telegraph Alphabet No. 1, many decades prior to Gray's patent) are good for many encoding applications because any two adjacent positions differ by exactly one bit, and the encoder wheels are trivial to construct by ( Read more... ) -
iris speaks
rebbyribs to iris: “Are you feeling sleepy?”
iris: “A little bit sleepy, actually.”
i thought this was very cute. clearly my brain has turned to goo! -
unidecode_php-0.3.tar.gz
I recently wrote a conversion script and PHP wrapper so that the data from the Perl "last-chance transliterator" Text::Unidecode by Sean M. Burke can be used from PHP: unidecode_php-0.3.tar.gz. To use this you'll need to install the Perl Text::Unidecode module and then run the udec2bin.pl script inside the unidecode_php package.
Example PHP usage ( Read more... ) -
Yay!, Bee, See.
I wrote some software using DHTML (JavaScript, HTML and CSS.) It's to help learn letters and numbers, and is intended to be used with adult supervision and involvement.
The software is very, very, very simple - it just echoes typed letters and numbers in a large, colorful font and shows a somewhat-relevant background image for each one. ( Read more... ) -
ǝsnqɐ ǝpoɔıun
( ɥo‾uı‾uosılɐ ɯoɹɟ) ɐɔɐɔqıl ʎq pǝsn sʇɔǝɟɟǝ ǝɥʇ ɟo ǝɯos ɟo ǝɯ spuıɯǝɹ lɯʇɥ˙dılɟ/ɯoɔ˙pɐɟʌǝɹ˙ʍʍʍ//:dʇʇɥ