karlnaylor

Lojbanic moods?

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:08:05 GMT

Just occurred to me that it would be neat if I could express my moods on Livejournal using Lojban attitudinals, and have the icon thingy appear next to them, as a nice little hint/reminder/reinforcer to associate with the word itself. Not sure if I can, but I'm about to try. I hope this works.

Twilight Princess

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:10:59 GMT

Grr. Twilight Princess has been out for some time and I still have not played it (except for an hour just to try it out at a friend's place). I've never neglected Zelda like this before. But playing this one through would require getting either a Gamecube or a Wii, and both are kinda expensive and not much use to me beyond being necessary for Zelda. A Gamecube would be cheaper I guess, but then I expect the next big Zelda (like, the next proper one with the classical 'Link saves Zelda from Ganon' story) will be on Wii, so I should get that. Also I've heard I'll be able to target arrows properly with the Wiimote, which will make a nice change.

Now if Nintendo will just release enough Wiis to meet the demand, I guess I'll spend a silly amount of money and be able to make the ache go away. Damn you, Nintendo. And damn volunteering instead of earning shedloads of excess money for things like this. Grr.

mi puzi co'a cilre fi la lojban.

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:21:02 GMT

What it says :) I just started learning Lojban (http://www.lojban.org) a month or so ago. It seems really cool so far (I'm nearly at the end of 'velcli befi la lojban. bei loi co'a cilre' and have been taking occasional jaunts into The Complete Lojban Language to try and clarify a few things. I figure after the beginners' course I'll start reading TCLL front to back and hopefully make me a flashcard app in Javascript (so I can use it over lunch at work as well as at home) using data from that old Emacs-based app and possibly add a clever algorithm I found on the internet, to select the time needed between repetitions of each word.

As for why I'm bothering... well, the most important reason seems to be that I'm having fun and finding it interesting. Also I'd like to get to the stage where I can think in Lojban and see if I can start restructuring my thought processes along more predicate calculus-ish lines. Being able to actually /use/ the language would be great, but Lojbanists are, for now, few and far between. I've heard that a friend of a friend is learning it too though, so once I feel a bit more confident I may well get in touch with him and try to arrange some practice sessions... :)

I need cooler friends

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:31:37 GMT

So. The title of the final Harry Potter novel is now public knowledge and so far nobody I've mentioned this to has shown the slightest interest in discussing the thing. Most of my friends seem to have read up to the third or fourth part and just stopped.

Gaaah.

I hate not being able to discuss Harry Potter.

My friends all blow.

oh dear god

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:02:05 GMT

Well, I've not posted an update in ages, which is what with one thing and another leading to nothing very noteworthy happening. So I decided to describe what I've been up to the past few days. I'm slightly embarrassed about my activities for the past week, because in summary, I played Warcraft for far too many hours every day. Oh dear. But I figure you Cupiders should be forewarned about what I can get like from time to time, so here it is.

To add more detail and possibly save some face, I should explain that I've been ill and more or less housebound because I don't want to get more ill and don't want to make everybody else ill. And I had no books in to read because I get them from the library (mostly to save paper and also because I've moved many times and don't want to move a cartload of books ever again). But also, I feel I should point out, because I decided I need a Dwarf Priest at level 42 ASAP.

See, Priests in World of Warcraft get a couple of race-specific spells each, so for example, Human Priests and Troll Priests will have mostly the same spells, but where Humans have Desperate Prayer, Trolls have Hex of Weakness. When I created my Night Elf Priest (mostly on the grounds that the prettiest character I could make was Night Elf female) I was vaguely aware of racial spells but figured they'd be about as good for each race.

Hehe. Nope.

With 6 days played (that is, 144 hours spent playing the game), after two or three months realtime probably, my Priestess was level 42, well on the way to endgame, with my real life best friend's and my brother's characters about the same so we could play together. Then I learned that one of the Dwarf racials, Fear Ward, is considered pretty much indispensible for many endgame encounters. The Night Elf ones are pretty much useless. And I don't like being inherently suboptimal. It rankles. Would you want to spend your World of Warcraft endgame with a rankle rankling at you? Well?

The solution, of course, is to roll a Dwarf Priest and level him to 42 as quickly as possible to replace the pretty Elf chick. OK the Elf took 144 hours to get that far, but I wasn't particularly trying to level her fast... I can do the Dwarf quicker, right? Well, right, but it'll still be a long haul. Kinda fortuitous that I was housebound for two days and the best part of a third I guess. But still I can't help feeling just a little sad about spending 10 hours a day levelling.

It's so I can play with my friends later. OK?

*guilt*

my feet. How interesting.

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:02:00 GMT

My feet are better :)

It's nice to be able to walk on my feet without there being any bits of them at all that are uncomfortable to walk on.

(this post was created in part just to have a positive mood on one of my LJ posts. It's not that I'm usually sad, just that most things that make me happy are far too boring to bother posting about. More boring even than my feet being better)

ow

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:33:21 GMT

Today I started wearing shoes for a few days because I got a small cut on my sole that is stubbornly not healing until I stop walking on it. I walked to the Botanic Gardens and around them a bit and back home (a few miles in total) and I wasn't far into the gardens before my feet started aching quite insistently. The author of 'The Barefoot Hiker' (which I'd recommend reading, mostly) said shoes wouldn't become uncomfortable after going barefoot, but seems in my case that's not true. Although maybe he just goes barefoot when offroad and leaves them on the rest of the time.

In any case, this means that I have a better basis for comparison between shod and unshod. I really do prefer unshod. It hurts less.

more suspicious behaviour from the police

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:24:24 GMT

I'm quite bugged by the police I attempted to observe today threatening to detain me unless I left them alone to do whatever the hell they want with no witnesses. I wouldn't put it past the UK to have a law against witnessing police actions -- the government do seem to feel that the rights of the government and police are more valuable than those of individuals (there's a word for that). But I want to check and prepare myself for next time I see someone being manhandled and can't find anywhere that offers advice on this. Will have to try Liberty's query form online once it's up & running again...

oh dear

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:37:49 GMT

Things can happen when I'm bored and don't have time to do anything particularly useful. See, I've signed up to Livejournal now. Remains to be seen whether I'll use it, since I'm already using my OKCupid journal and my friends are there and don't particularly need to be brought here. We'll see.