March 2020

Another week brings another Homebrew Website Club West Coast. The last one led to fruitful discussion, so I'm going again.

I'm going to Homebrew Website Club West Coast tomorrow, and this post is my RSVP.

Plurt Masberry, Curator of Sith Artifacts and Holocrons at the Cloud City Republican Museum, informs me that this drawing depicts a Sith legend.

One day 3bo was out on a walk. Then out of the corner of the tree was an evol speiret. So he foght. The evol sprit did not have time to fight back because he die. 3bo finly won his first battol.

3bo Battles Evol

Decision: Standardize on gei3-type citations for source material. Can use scripts in the build process to automate find-replace for publishing. I don't care about academic or legal standards right now, and any Chinese linguistics writing I do will probably not be for laymen.

Here is the case for using gei3 instead of standard Pinyin gěi.

Pro:

• only need ASCII to search (except for lü, but that can be typed lv), which is helpful for build-process mechanisms and scripts like spell check, as well as fewer edge cases for implementation of projects such as full-text search
• if I ever switch to doing it the other way, I can more easily replace text like gei3 into gěi than the other way around (and the procedure for determining which letter takes the tone accent mark is a straightforward algorithm).

1. Isaura, city of the thousand wells, is said to rise over a deep, subterranean lake. On all sides, wherever the inhabitants dig long, vertical holes in the ground, they succeed in drawing up water, as far as the city extends, and no further. Its green border repeats the dark outline of the buried lake; an invisible landscape conditions the visible one; everything that moves in the sunlight is driven by the lapping wave enclosed beneath the rock's calcareous sky.

   pg 20 / Thin Cities 1

I had a wonderful time today at the Southern California Linux Expo, as a booth volunteer with Uncoded. It's a satisfying challenge to pitch to crowds of people, hoping to get them interested in something you care about.

Speaking of pitching: Uncoded is a Long Beach non-profit which brings together people in the tech industry for learning, socializing, and professional networking. Come to our weekly Hack Nights to meet enthusiasts of all kinds: you'll be welcome no matter your level of knowledge or area of interest. Hack Night is every Tuesday from 6 PM to 8 PM; on 2020-03-10 we'll be at Sura Korean Restaurant, 621 Atlantic Ave.

Interested customers can write to these Post Offices for postmarks to keep or to share with friends. Enclose a stamped, addressed card or letter in another envelope or box labeled “Valentine re-mailing” and address it to the postmaster of one of the towns listed below. Please allow enough time for postmarking, re-mailing, and delivery.

USPS Website

Here are the towns with names that I like the most, out of about 35:

• Bliss, ID 83314
• Bliss, NY 14024
• Darling, MS 38623
• Deary, ID 83823
• Eros, LA 71238
• Honey Brook, PA 19344
• Honey Creek, WI 53138
• Honey Grove, PA 17035
• Honey Grove, TX 75446

Not in the dresser,
Nor on the couch.
Not in this jacket,
Nor in that pouch.
Not in the bucket,
And not on the chair.
Not in the cabinet.
Not over there.
I'm going stir-crazy:
Is it anywhere?

After a few months of intermittent work, my translation of Lao She's short story "Iron Bull and Sick Duck" is ready to share. So far as I know, nobody has ever before translated this story into English.