... was to go home. Some of this was posted on Facebook. As I type this, yesterday was Dec 25, 2023. I got home from work (if you're a sysadmin, you do serious stuff on holidays to minimize the impact) at about 5PM. I parked as usual in my apartment complex's parking lot. I heard meowing from…
No. Some of you may recall an earlier blog post I wrote entitled Am I overreacting? I ask the question in the context of my continuing isolation in the face of COVID. In that article, I pointed to the condition of Dianna Cowern (PhysicsGirl on YouTube) who was suffering from long COVID. Today, a friend of hers…
qaStaHvIS wa'SaD wa'vatlh wa'maH wa' jaj tlhIngan Hol vIHaDtaH. = I have studied Klingon for one thousand one hundred and eleven days. Three Klingon-related posts in a row! However, there's more to this particular post than the alliteration of the digit "1": It may be my last post on Klingon. In other words, I've finished the Duolingo…
qaStaHvIS wa'SaD wa'vatlh jaj tlhIngan Hol vIHaDtaH = I have studied Klingon for one thousand one hundred days. The way our calendar works has gives me another milestone on the heels of another. Five days ago I celebrated three years of studying Klingon. Klingon was invented by a linguist who wanted to create an alien language. I…
tlhIngan Hol vIHaDtaH qaStaHvIS wej DIS. = I have studied Klingon for three years. Since I'm going to write a longer post on my study of Klingon in five days, I'm not going to say much here. vaghleS jIghItlh = In five days I will write.
Let's start with a disclaimer: This blog post, like my last two, is based on personal reminiscences. I'm telling my little stories while my aging and cracking memories still have enough integrity that I can pretend there's an element of truth to them. Here I'm going to focus on my participation in the New-York-City-area table-top role-playing fan…
About a week ago, someone e-mailed me with a question related to my old writing in the pages of the APAs. I'll get into that query (and answer the question "What the heck is an APA?") in the follow-up post to this one. Let's first look at the chain of thought the query inspired. I have three…
Dear Bill of March 2020, It's Bill of October 2023. How are you? Don't bother to answer. I remember. I've been meaning to write to you for some time about what's in store for you. I won't talk about the big historical events; Julie Nolke has that topic covered. Instead, I'm going to tell you about the…
At the end of my review of Lord of the Rings: Gollum, I wrote: ...my next video-game review will about a game based on a widely-known IP, with antique graphics, and even more glitches than Gollum. I loved every minute of it. Given my fondness for Telltale-style games, and my oft-unrequited love of Star Trek, it probably…
tlhIngan Hol vIHaDtaH qaStaHvIS wa'SaD jaj = I have studied the Klingon language for one thousand days. I don't have much to add to my earlier essays on my study of Klingon (links at the end of this post). I do have both good news and bad news, depending on whether you feel that studying Klingon is…