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Stuff (and Nonsense)
Sep. 13th, 2004 04:40 pmIn no particular order:
My last post should in no way be read as support of Bush. Or Kerry. As I said then, they are both fundamentally irrelevant to the point: that CBS thought no-one would notice that they hadn't checked their infoproperly at all. Almost all politicians are bastards, and so are almost all of the media. feh.
I had a dream on Sunday morning. The details elude me, as they always do, but the executive summary was that I and some nameless and faceless friends were in a deep, dark, donkdustbin cave in front of the remains of an old temple, trying to fix something which would cause the end of the universe if unchecked. Wait, make that the End of The Universe. Using my knowledge of Magick, I opened a portal and entered the Antechamber of the Gods. (The general ambience was Half Dr. Who set, and half Star Trek Classic.) Once there we came to the opening of another cave, which was filled with Darkness. Tenebrousness. Opacity. And a God. I knew him to be the God of Death, and bargained with him to save the Universe. He agreed, but then grabbed my arm and said that He was greedy, and allowed no-one to leave his presence. The rest is a blur, but the outcome, before I woke up, was that between me and my friends, we had fought and defeated five Gods. (Count 'em, five!)
I woke feeling, if not God-killingly Powerful, then at least vaguely happy and accomplished. Remind me to kill some more Gods. It makes me feel good.
Hund is over at my place tonight — that is, the SCA naming heraldry meeting. Pedr was in hospital last Thursday for treatment of his ulcerated leg, so we may not see him. I am, however, expecting Bruce, who has a copy of MST3K doing Manos — Hands of Fate and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians for sale. Mim will hate me.
I spent the weekend playing with Abbi and rebuilding my Debian server. BIOS upgrading, apt-frenzy. By Sunday night I had Apache serving pages, Webmin tweaking settings and Samba doing the file-sharing thing. Most things are now working better than they had been before. Yay me!
I have been working recently on a font in Metafont (a programming language designed to create fonts, mainly for use with TeX/LaTeX) for Irish. As part of this, I've been writing a paper to go with it, saying what it is, what it does, why it is like it is, what I changed from the original and why, &c, &c. As part of this, I have been researching the antecedants of this font. One possible exemplar I own: Dineen's Foclóir Gaedhilge agus Béarla (Irish-English Dictionary; Dublin 1927, repr. with add. 1934). Others I have found through the grace of Google. What I have found is that 1) the font's original name was Newman, and 2) the font I am working on has many differences, which make it related, but not as closely as I had thought at first.
I have decided to put out my re-tooled font (for those who care, I am retooling eiad for an 8 bit character set, adding missing characters, adding and tweaking LaTeX NFSS variations, creating new characters for older Irish ligatures (`ar', `rr', `ui', etc), and the result will probably come out on CTAN as xeiad). But, to add to my self-imposed masochism, I have decided that I will then start work on metafonting Newman. After that, I might work on some of the other popular Irish fonts.
Hello, my name is Catsidhe, (Hi, Catsidhe!) and I am a geek.
I have joined the flock, and have arranged a Google mail account: catsidhe at google dot com. Baaaaa.
My last post should in no way be read as support of Bush. Or Kerry. As I said then, they are both fundamentally irrelevant to the point: that CBS thought no-one would notice that they hadn't checked their info
I had a dream on Sunday morning. The details elude me, as they always do, but the executive summary was that I and some nameless and faceless friends were in a deep, dark, donk
I woke feeling, if not God-killingly Powerful, then at least vaguely happy and accomplished. Remind me to kill some more Gods. It makes me feel good.
Hund is over at my place tonight — that is, the SCA naming heraldry meeting. Pedr was in hospital last Thursday for treatment of his ulcerated leg, so we may not see him. I am, however, expecting Bruce, who has a copy of MST3K doing Manos — Hands of Fate and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians for sale. Mim will hate me.
I spent the weekend playing with Abbi and rebuilding my Debian server. BIOS upgrading, apt-frenzy. By Sunday night I had Apache serving pages, Webmin tweaking settings and Samba doing the file-sharing thing. Most things are now working better than they had been before. Yay me!
I have been working recently on a font in Metafont (a programming language designed to create fonts, mainly for use with TeX/LaTeX) for Irish. As part of this, I've been writing a paper to go with it, saying what it is, what it does, why it is like it is, what I changed from the original and why, &c, &c. As part of this, I have been researching the antecedants of this font. One possible exemplar I own: Dineen's Foclóir Gaedhilge agus Béarla (Irish-English Dictionary; Dublin 1927, repr. with add. 1934). Others I have found through the grace of Google. What I have found is that 1) the font's original name was Newman, and 2) the font I am working on has many differences, which make it related, but not as closely as I had thought at first.
I have decided to put out my re-tooled font (for those who care, I am retooling eiad for an 8 bit character set, adding missing characters, adding and tweaking LaTeX NFSS variations, creating new characters for older Irish ligatures (`ar', `rr', `ui', etc), and the result will probably come out on CTAN as xeiad). But, to add to my self-imposed masochism, I have decided that I will then start work on metafonting Newman. After that, I might work on some of the other popular Irish fonts.
Hello, my name is Catsidhe, (Hi, Catsidhe!) and I am a geek.
I have joined the flock, and have arranged a Google mail account: catsidhe at google dot com. Baaaaa.
