Staticfree Blog

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 :-)")