August 2019

23 posts

Prengubi Cjiiiifgh

sithlord slc

A drawing of an evil alien named Prengubi Cjiiiifgh

This teated fellow's name is pronounced "prehng-GOO-bee kyee-ee-ee-eef" or /pɹεᶇ'gubi kji'i:i:if/

Sith Lord Challenge

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Draw Your Dark Side

The Sith Lord Challenge, an art contest for everyone, is openly accepting submissions.

How To Enter
  1. Draw your own Sith Lord, defined as "an evil space alien, of any species, possibly wielding a laser sword or psychic powers."
  2. Name your Sith Lord.
  3. Submit your Sith Lord, via email, a comment on this page, a text message, or WebMention. I'll ask whether you want credit.

Sith Lords

  1. Prengubi Cjiiiifgh [created by Maxwell. Pronunciation: "prehng-GOO-bee kyee-ee-ee-eef" or /pɹεᶇ'gubi kji'i:i:if/]

    Prengubi Cjiiiifgh

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  2. Darth Prius [created by MU. The name is pronounced "PRY-us" or /'pɹaɪǝs/, not "PREE-us" like the car]

    Darth Prius

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Darth Vegtablor

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by Anonymous

A drawing of an evil alien named Darth Vegtablor

According to the anonymous creator of this entry, Darth Vegtablor is a Sith Lord by association of color and taste only.

Darth Prius

sithlord slc

by Matt

A drawing of an evil alien named Darth Prius

This sluggy Lord's name is pronounced "PRY-us" or /'pɹaɪǝs/, not "PREE-us" like the car.

Some of the tidbits I found while cleaning my room in preparation for moving:

  • circuit diagrams and truth tables from spring 2019, when I was studying the computer architecture course NAND to Tetris, AKA "Elements of Computing Systems."
  • a crude doodle of a fox person, which led to the Sith Lord Challenge
  • journal notes from a Joshua Tree camping trip
  • prose and poetry resulting from three evenings' worth of writing games, over the last year or so

After the Farewell Lunch

poetry

Shortly before moving away from Portland, I got the chance to have a farewell lunch with Professor Hyong Rhew, one of just three or four people whom I call "my most beloved teachers." Also present was my long-time friend Chris Stasse, whom I similarly call one of "my most beloved friends."

This poem commemorates the mischievous post-prandial activities of that day. I believe this is the first poem I've written for Chris; it probably won't be the last.

最后一杯
干了之后
老师告别
哥俩要走
笑着回家
大麻便抽
疯狂假想
做双朋友

A loose translation, 2019-12-20, 11:41:01-0800:

One last cup
Drained
The teacher bids goodbye

The two boys
Leave
Laughing all the way home

"Big Hemp" is
Smoked
Wild fancies take flight

Such is a pair of friends!

Updates today:

  • fixed a Ryan Quest bug and put the game back online
  • did some tinkering with the index page
  • fixed some broken links
  • deprecated a folder and moved its contents

Yak-shaving included coming up with a way to keep my URL scheme tidy in order to use excellent solution #1 for the above problems -- only to realize it wouldn't work because my articles don't use file extensions, and having to use not-as-good solution #2. Incremental!

Review of What About the Rest of Your Life

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I've never read a memoir quite like this. The people, events, and choices that made Sung Yim's life a hell of mental illness and drug addiction also made her into someone who probably would not like me, and who I would not like to spend time with -- but I am glad to have spent a few hours absorbing her perspective.

indieweb upgrade

Today, I worked toward adding simple text notes. You are reading one of them right now!

Remaining items include:

  • figure out something better to put in <h1> tags for individual posts [2019-09-18: done]
  • create year/month/day listing pages [planning to reuse the code for creating the blog/feed, which is still evolving]
  • redirect attempts to access a directory to the appropriate listing page