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My learning of lojban is coming along well. It really is amazingly easy to learn. The best part about it, is that all the tools to speak / write it (and most importantly, write it well) are freely available on the web. I mean, there're grammar checkers in debian's apt (jbofihe) which let you verify your sentences against the grammar and see what it thinks you were trying to say. So far i havn't even tried to understand arbitrary spoken lojban, but i need to learn quite a bit of grammar first. I have a lot of respect for languages that essentially build emoticons into the language.

My tests at Children's the other day went well. I had a fun echo cardiogram (honestly fun... i could see my heart beating and stuff) and a rather unfun stress test. Stress tests consist of running on a treadmill, with an increasing level of difficulty, while you have many electrodes stuck to your chest. You walk/run until you can't any longer. So, out of shape as i am, lasted only 18 minutes. ah well, at least i bike regularly.

I've also just put my GnuPG public key on a public keyserver, as well as my own page. Now i'm all 1337 and crypto-enabled. I should really learn more about how public-key encryption works, though - it seems quite nifty.

mi nelci la latci'o .u'i ("i like kittens :-)")

Well, there's nothing more fun that wearing an ECG all day than getting a call at work from your dad saying that you have to be at Childrens' Hospital at 08:00 to have your heart poked and prodded. As much as one can really poke and prod a heart without getting too bloody, that is. Tomorrow's (er, today) looking Really fun, hopefully culminating in some more definate resolution whether i'm going to spontaniously combust or die a horrible, painful death of heart failure. Or maybe live normally in a secret underground government research facility as i'm studied studying aliens who study humans. Yeeees... the aliens...

Save internet radio! Spread this site to your friends... you'd be suprised how unpublicized this all is. Perhaps the media giants are, in fact, giant?

Kate told me i HAD to watch Forbidden Zone. So i did, without reading anything about it at all and with my grandparents and younger brother in the room... my, what a twisted movie. The best description i could come up with is Alice in Wonderland smoking crack while watching amature soft-core porn.

I think the everything 2 node summarizes it best.

well, tomorrow (er, today), i get to go into children's hopital bright and early to have my heart checked out for palpatations. It's sorta weird: tashari had mentioned that she was going to have her heart checked out for similar things, and it brought me to researching what kind of things there are in the way of heart conditions. which then lead me to realizing that there might be a reason for the weirdness i had been experiencing, and yes - the symptoms of palpatations (as well as my guess as to what was going on with me, compared against what a palpation is) seemed to be what i had. so, maybe i'll have such... hopefully i don't. most likely, i do, but very minor. i wish humans were easier to debug...

I've always been interested in constructed languages (conlangs) and how languages evolve and interplay. Some day, i might even try and learn something of linguistics. Until then, I can be amused by Lojban and such. Maybe i'll try and learn some of the grammar, although a potentially spoken language based on predicate logic sounds a bit ... convoluted. At least they claim it's easy to learn.

exploding dog is a happy site. This one should be the motto of all livejournal and blog writers out there: all my favorite people...