Below are the most recent 7 friends' journal entries.

Thursday, November 5th, 2009
conlangs [ jfran2258 ]	5:19p	voiceless nasals and other unusual sounds Is there a recording on the internet contrasting voiced and unvoiced nasals? I haven't been able to find any. Are there any contrasting voiced and voiceless /r/ or /l/? Any help would be greatly appreciated. (10 Comments |Comment on this)
psifenix	11:03a	From desolation and despair Here is a list of things that are pissing me off recently. Slightly more than half of Maine: I am so done with you, social conservatives. I tried to pretend that maybe your behavior was a result of "being dumb," but more and more your ignorance is indistinguishable from hate. Besides, you really should be spending the millions of dollars you obtained (by spreading lies) fighting poverty/hunger/genocide rather than trying to run other people's lives... especially when your "mandate" has thinned from 20% to 3% in the past few years. You're fighting a very expensive battle and you're eventually going to lose anyway. Is this really what Jesus would do? I think he would be making this face at you right now: >:[ My advice to you: (a) Read the writing on the wall, and (b) Get a life and stay the fuck out of mine. If not, (c) Eat horseshit and subsequently die in a fire. Fuck you. And gay activists: We probably have more important things to spend money on right now, too. For example, the GLBT youth suicide rate is still very scary and somewhat more urgent. :/ My laptop: So yesterday I was trying to sync a bunch of data and update all my Mac software in preparation for (wait for it) backing up all of my data. I have a new, shiny 1TB external hard drive, and so I'm finally going to take that one easy, sanity-preserving step. But not is all right in the kingdom of my computers! After my laptop restarts to install a bunch of updates it presents me with a dialog box which proclaims that some of the update files were corrupted (somehow) and gives me one button: Restart. I restart and I get the gray screen of death, something about a kernel panic, and instructions on how to restart my computer manually in four languages. Ruh-roh! So I take it to the Apple store in SF where I wait for my appointment (along with a ridiculously hot redheaded blue-eyed guy in full racing leathers). The computery guy boots OSX off an external hard drive and then runs disk utility on Severian II. Looks like I have bad sectors? But the hard drive is showing up, so there is some hope! As soon as I get home I install Leopard on my 1TB external and boot my laptop that way, and sure enough, my documents seem to be intact. Still not sure about the laptop's internal, though. Possibly I just need to wipe it and do a fresh install (of Snow Leopard, finally!), and if not I'll just get it (the HD) replaced. Because I have all the money and time in the world! Woog. Math software: The most relevant stuff for me works only in Sage, which is open source and exhibits the typical open-source-project problems. It also strongly types, which is annoying because I want to treat modular forms both as elements in a graded ring and elements in a vector space, and so far I can't figure out how to let them wear both hats simultaneously (I want a basis for a space of cusp forms but I also want to multiply them together). I'm having lunch with William Stein in half an hour and maybe there's a work around (edit: he told me how to do things!), but still. I wish I could have the syntactic simplicity and beauty of Mathematica with the versatility of Magma and Sage all in one program, but it is not to be. Oh yeah, my icon reminds me: The new Evangelion movies are pretty good. Henry and I watched the first one and were quite impressed. Also, nostalgic. --Psyfe Current Mood: fwp Current Music: Muse - Map of the Problematique (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
conlangs [ ysabetwordsmith ]	6:05p	Bilingual Science Fiction Poem I'm holding a poetry fishbowl today, with a theme of "languages and ways of writing." I've already posted the freebie poem, "Space Flight" which is bilingual in Lâadan and English. Current Mood: busy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
conlangs [ dedalvs ]	6:37p	SpecGram's on Twitter Speculative Grammarian, the premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics, is now on Twitter. You can follow us at http://twitter.com/SpecGram. (Comment on this)
conlangs [ alishenai ]	2:32p	enclitc Since my last post I have been working on my articles which is my next question. If you conlang has enclitic definate articles then how do you manage suffixes? do you place them before the attached definate article or afterwards? (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
conlangs [ ysabetwordsmith ]	1:44p	Propaganda ... now in new Klingon flavor! My partner Doug found me this awesome piece of Klingon propaganda, done in animation with all the narration in Klingon. I only recognized a few words, but hey, it's still fun to watch. Current Mood: busy (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 26th, 2009
psifenix	4:55p	You can't spell Palidor without 'pal'! I just had one of the most epic FF battles I have ever had. To distract myself lately from the trials and tribulations of math (modular forms are totally sweet guys, but I need breaks) I have been replaying FFVI. ( Possible spoilers for the game, but whatever. ) Video games are fun! --Psyfe * Economizers are cheating. So is Vanish/X-Zone. I judge you silently when you use either. (6 Comments |Comment on this)