Zompist Bboard Again

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Thu Nov 20, 2025 3:30 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Thu Nov 20, 2025 11:52 am

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Thu Nov 20, 2025 11:17 am I have gotten rid of a number of problems in Old Albic by removing a phonological rule. That rule shortened unaccented long vowels, and it made more trouble than sense. When I realized that neither such languages as Latin or Greek, nor Quenya have such a rule, I wondered why Old Albic should have it, and abandoned it. Wow!

Is Old Albic stress-timed, and how strong is the stress accent in it? If Old Albic is stress-timed and has a strong stress accent shortening unaccented long vowels makes sense, but if it were, say, mora-timed that would not make sense.

I never got this "stress-timed"/"syllable-timed"/"mora-timed" thing, but the Old Albic accent rule is essentially the same as in Latin, and as the Latin accent rule is essentially "the penultimate mora before the last syllable gets the accent", I guess it is mora-timed, but I don't know.

I'm looking further into this, and things seem much less clear than I originally thought they were...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Man in Space wrote: ↑Thu Nov 27, 2025 2:25 pm Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to you as well!

Two days in a row where I had planned to do a certain number of things and managed it to get almost all of them done. By my standards, that's a great success!

zeptoforth made it onto the Wiki! While it does not have a Wiki article as of this point, there is a reference to the zeptoforth GitHub in the RP2040 Wiki article, where it is referenced w.r.t. Forth support for the RP2040.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Dec 23, 2025 4:08 pm zeptoforth made it onto the Wiki! While it does not have a Wiki article as of this point, there is a reference to the zeptoforth GitHub in the RP2040 Wiki article, where it is referenced w.r.t. Forth support for the RP2040.

Congratulations!

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Dec 23, 2025 4:08 pm zeptoforth made it onto the Wiki! While it does not have a Wiki article as of this point, there is a reference to the zeptoforth GitHub in the RP2040 Wiki article, where it is referenced w.r.t. Forth support for the RP2040.

Congrats!

Turns out that nothing seriously bad had happened to that old friend of my Mom's who hadn't given her his weekly call and whom she hadn't been able to reach at first. His phone just hadn't worked for a while.

It was a good winter holiday, got to spend lot of time with the new kitty.

Glad to hear!

Nice kitten! Also a nice sheet it is sitting on - I have always loved maps, and am wondering what kind of map it is imprinted with. Is it some kind of alternative history North America?

Good to hear you've been able to spend time with the kitten!

Ahzoh wrote: ↑Sun Jan 04, 2026 9:14 am It was a good winter holiday, got to spend lot of time with the new kitty.

Kitten! What an adorable little one... my vacation's also mostly involved kitten playtime, to be honest. (Though our cats are now closer to senior cats rather than kittens, but it's hard to see them as not kittens.)

Random happy: ended up finding a German food truck in Fayetteville (NC) that sells homemade Käsekuchen. It was really good, quite close to what I can get on the other side of the Atlantic (and approved by my mother and brother as well).

On Windows 10, you can apparently just uninstall Copilot.

Happy: did two Magic: the Gathering prerelease tournaments for the new set this weekend. Not only was the new set a lot of fun to play, I also took second at a tournament in Germany (in German) on Saturday and went undefeated at an event on Sunday here in Luxembourg. (Formally took third, but prizing was prize-per-win rather than placement, so final placement was less important.)

Man in Space wrote: ↑Sun Jan 11, 2026 2:19 pm On Windows 10, you can apparently just uninstall Copilot.

I wish that could be done for all sorts of things, and not just Windows 10.

doctor shark wrote: ↑Mon Jan 19, 2026 2:16 am Happy: did two Magic: the Gathering prerelease tournaments for the new set this weekend. Not only was the new set a lot of fun to play, I also took second at a tournament in Germany (in German) on Saturday and went undefeated at an event on Sunday here in Luxembourg. (Formally took third, but prizing was prize-per-win rather than placement, so final placement was less important.)

Congratulations!

doctor shark wrote: ↑Mon Jan 19, 2026 2:16 am Happy: did two Magic: the Gathering prerelease tournaments for the new set this weekend. Not only was the new set a lot of fun to play, I also took second at a tournament in Germany (in German) on Saturday and went undefeated at an event on Sunday here in Luxembourg. (Formally took third, but prizing was prize-per-win rather than placement, so final placement was less important.)

Nice!

I am become Torco, owner of land.

I've just returned from my first trip as owner to a little plot i bought on the rural bits, about an hour's drive from santiago. Mostly bought it for the land, the house that sits on it is shitty. the main purpose of the trip was to ascertain next steps: demolition and bulding anew, or fixing 'er up. It's looking like it's gonna be building anew, but it's not too bad. it's 500 square meters of nice flat land, with electricity, sewers and running water.

this makes me happe

a land and a house are a cross,
a curse that holds you there
and proves your finitude,
by leveling what you build,

transforming you into Sisyphus,
tied to a stone,

when the entire universe
could not exhaust
your natural nomadism...

only a woman can test your humanity even further,
often the two go hand in hand...
some imagine Sisyphus happy...
but have they imagined him married as well...

I will probably never be able to buy real estate in my life - but that's nothing I am unhappy about. In fact, I am pretty glad that I don't own any real estate that would nail me down in a single location. It is more of a burden than a benefit, I think.