Happy things thread!

[MacAnDàil]

Merci tout le monde !

Here's La Marseillaise, sung by Mireille Mathieu and La mauvaise réputation sung in Réunionese Creole by Danyèl Waro.

[Travis B.]

Merci tout le monde !

Here's La Marseillaise, sung by Mireille Mathieu and La mauvaise réputation sung in Réunionese Creole by Danyèl Waro.

Is French sometimes sung with alveolar trills (kind of like German stage/singing pronunciation)?

[Ryusenshi]

Is French sometimes sung with alveolar trills (kind of like German stage/singing pronunciation)?

(No thanks to you guys, for making me endure the entire bloody song.)

I think Mireille Mathieu uses uvular trills, based on sound and tongue position. In this case, it was indeed a common stage pronunciation: see for example Edith Piaf's La Foule. It sounds dated, though: modern singers use the more common uvular fricative / approximant. Mathieu's pronunciation is quite conservative for someone of her generation.

[Travis B.]

Data transfer over my TCP implementation (part of zeptoIP, for zeptoforth on the Raspberry Pi Pico W) is just starting to become reliable, finally!

[Raphael]

The new router arrived, and after the usual minor hiccups, I've successfully installed it and connected it to everything.

[alice]

Data transfer over my TCP implementation (part of zeptoIP, for zeptoforth on the Raspberry Pi Pico W) is just starting to become reliable, finally!

Your progress with zeptoforth both warms ny heart and makes me envious that I am no longer able to pursue my hobby electronics.

[Travis B.]

Data transfer over my TCP implementation (part of zeptoIP, for zeptoforth on the Raspberry Pi Pico W) is just starting to become reliable, finally!

Your progress with zeptoforth both warms ny heart and makes me envious that I am no longer able to pursue my hobby electronics.

It's really too bad that you can't pursue your electronics hobby. Any particular reason, if you don't mind my asking?

[alice]

Data transfer over my TCP implementation (part of zeptoIP, for zeptoforth on the Raspberry Pi Pico W) is just starting to become reliable, finally!

Your progress with zeptoforth both warms ny heart and makes me envious that I am no longer able to pursue my hobby electronics.

It's really too bad that you can't pursue your electronics hobby. Any particular reason, if you don't mind my asking?

Well, since you ask :

• Space: all those bits have to go somewhere, whether I'm using them or not

• Time: in retrospect I set myself targets which were too ambitious

• Physical Energy: it's not easy to spend so much of your life soldering when you have ME

• Mental energy: <expletive>, another soldering mistake, have to do the damned thing all over again

• Patience: the long turnaround time from having an idea to getting it fully working

[xxx]

sure, conlanging in comparison needs nothing except a brain,
and sometime a pen and a piece of paper...

[WeepingElf]

Your progress with zeptoforth both warms ny heart and makes me envious that I am no longer able to pursue my hobby electronics.

It's really too bad that you can't pursue your electronics hobby. Any particular reason, if you don't mind my asking?

Well, since you ask :

• Space: all those bits have to go somewhere, whether I'm using them or not

• Time: in retrospect I set myself targets which were too ambitious

• Physical Energy: it's not easy to spend so much of your life soldering when you have ME

• Mental energy: <expletive>, another soldering mistake, have to do the damned thing all over again

• Patience: the long turnaround time from having an idea to getting it fully working

This reminds me of the problems that sunk my computer science career. My mental energy and patience were utterly insufficient to deal with making programs do what they were meant to do. Another problem was a strong aversion against Microsoft and their products, which crossed out about 90% of the available jobs.

[Man in Space]

I got a new pair of headphones this morning.

[Raphael]

I got a new pair of headphones this morning.

Is it the one that got destroyed?

[Man in Space]

I got a new pair of headphones this morning.

Is it the one that got destroyed?

No—the destruction of the old paid motivated the acquisition of the new.

[Raphael]

I got a new pair of headphones this morning.

Is it the one that got destroyed?

No—the destruction of the old paid motivated the acquisition of the new.

Ah, thank you.

[Travis B.]

I got a new pair of headphones this morning.

Is it the one that got destroyed?

No—the destruction of the old paid motivated the acquisition of the new.

I too wondered if the dog destroyed your brand-new headphones.

[xxx]

This reminds me of the problems that sunk my computer science career. My mental energy and patience were utterly insufficient to deal with making programs do what they were meant to do.

that's why you preferred conlanging

[WeepingElf]

This reminds me of the problems that sunk my computer science career. My mental energy and patience were utterly insufficient to deal with making programs do what they were meant to do.

that's why you preferred conlanging

There's some truth in that - conlanging became my favourite hobby a few months after my computer science career had collapsed. I did dabble in it earlier, but that was nothing compared with what I am doing now. Of course, conlanging is not a great way of earning money, so I had to find another source of income. For some years, that was a library job, but now I am looking for a job again. And if that fails, I'll try my luck as a freelance writer, even though that is certainly not easy.

[Travis B.]

I tend to do more conlanging in times where my brain just is not functioning right, and more programming in times when it is working properly, as I naturally gravitate to programming but brain malfunctioning really gets in the way of being able to program well, so I am exhausted after a day of programming just for my job.

[xxx]

conlanging can be a safe haven...

[Travis B.]

Your progress with zeptoforth both warms ny heart and makes me envious that I am no longer able to pursue my hobby electronics.

It's really too bad that you can't pursue your electronics hobby. Any particular reason, if you don't mind my asking?

Well, since you ask :

• Space: all those bits have to go somewhere, whether I'm using them or not

• Time: in retrospect I set myself targets which were too ambitious

• Physical Energy: it's not easy to spend so much of your life soldering when you have ME

• Mental energy: <expletive>, another soldering mistake, have to do the damned thing all over again

• Patience: the long turnaround time from having an idea to getting it fully working

For the record, I am terrible at soldering ─ I kill at least a third of the devices that I try to solder. This in a large part is due to my hand tremors (thank you meds) which make it very hard to hold a soldering iron and solder steady. Also I use non-lead solder (just to be on the safe side), and that requires a very high soldering iron temperature, which has a way of melting components such as buttons on boards if I am not careful.