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solarbirdToday I went to Culture Festival (文化祭, bunkasai) as part of Japanese class. Yay! There's a Japanese school-within-the-college at Shoreline; it's run as a normal Japanese school for the most part, except that there are a extra classes teaching about hotel management/tourism and English language and culture. It's basically a postgrad for Japanese high school students going into hotel/restaurant/tourism-related fields and prepping for study overseas in places like the US. And today was cultural festival, so our whole class went over to their school and watched kendo and did calligraphy and did festival things (wishing tree, kanji games, origami - no goldfish catching tho' ^_^ ) and generally it was bigger than I expected and fun.
I think this are the two characters for my name in the calligraphy. I'm sure of the first one. The second one doesn't look quite right but is the closest of the kanji I could find in my IME: 蛇羅
The first means "snake" and the second I'm told means literally "net" but is taken as "hunter," which means my name ダラ means "snake hunter," which is funny. Particularly if I'm supposed to be hunting snakes with nets. Ha HA - ineffective!
I kinda think it'd be fun for the Japanese language classes to get together and hold 文化祭 too, but I also think it'd just be confusing. There are something like five Americans, six South Koreans, at least four people from various parts of Indonesia, a handful of PRC (five or six people?), a couple of Taiwanese, somebody from Hong Kong, and a small assortment of people who are the only ones from their countries in the class. (And yet no one from Mexico or Canada. Odd!) So the mix would be strange. But maybe funny!
Oh, and I got a 98 on my first midterm test of four. To which I must ask, what the fuck is going on? Okay, the test was easier than I expected because she was kind on the きゃ／ひゅ／きょ type combinations that I have trouble hearing when spoken, but god damn 98%?!. Also, the whole class is doing atypically well. Our scores are tracking around 15 points above her usual classes. Unlike chemistry over the summer, though, there's no curve, so there is no downside to this. Yay!
Now we start learning more vocabulary. Now is time for t3h ph33r. Oh wait, that's Monday - Bio midterm nr. 1 (of three).
Wednesday's miles: 2.4
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1374.9
Miles out of Rivendell: 909.9
Miles out of Lothlórien: 455.9
Miles past Rauros Falls: 48.0
Miles to Isengard: 424.0
Here, now have a couple very much not at all Yay! links about Diebold's patented ElectoTheft 5000 voting machines. Consider the mood setting subset here to be "Gir." I'd make them separate except I don't want to make a big political post right now and these would probably end up in there, which is misleading since this should matter independently of politics, even though somehow it doesn't. Hmmm.
Princeton video demonstrating the triviality of hacking Diebold AccuVote TS voting machines.
Southern Florida computer programmer testifies under oath that he was asked by now-Congressman Tom Feeney (R-FL) to write a prototype election-stealing programme. At the time, Mr. Feeney was Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives.
I think this are the two characters for my name in the calligraphy. I'm sure of the first one. The second one doesn't look quite right but is the closest of the kanji I could find in my IME: 蛇羅
The first means "snake" and the second I'm told means literally "net" but is taken as "hunter," which means my name ダラ means "snake hunter," which is funny. Particularly if I'm supposed to be hunting snakes with nets. Ha HA - ineffective!
I kinda think it'd be fun for the Japanese language classes to get together and hold 文化祭 too, but I also think it'd just be confusing. There are something like five Americans, six South Koreans, at least four people from various parts of Indonesia, a handful of PRC (five or six people?), a couple of Taiwanese, somebody from Hong Kong, and a small assortment of people who are the only ones from their countries in the class. (And yet no one from Mexico or Canada. Odd!) So the mix would be strange. But maybe funny!
Oh, and I got a 98 on my first midterm test of four. To which I must ask, what the fuck is going on? Okay, the test was easier than I expected because she was kind on the きゃ／ひゅ／きょ type combinations that I have trouble hearing when spoken, but god damn 98%?!. Also, the whole class is doing atypically well. Our scores are tracking around 15 points above her usual classes. Unlike chemistry over the summer, though, there's no curve, so there is no downside to this. Yay!
Now we start learning more vocabulary. Now is time for t3h ph33r. Oh wait, that's Monday - Bio midterm nr. 1 (of three).
Wednesday's miles: 2.4
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1374.9
Miles out of Rivendell: 909.9
Miles out of Lothlórien: 455.9
Miles past Rauros Falls: 48.0
Miles to Isengard: 424.0
Here, now have a couple very much not at all Yay! links about Diebold's patented ElectoTheft 5000 voting machines. Consider the mood setting subset here to be "Gir." I'd make them separate except I don't want to make a big political post right now and these would probably end up in there, which is misleading since this should matter independently of politics, even though somehow it doesn't. Hmmm.
Princeton video demonstrating the triviality of hacking Diebold AccuVote TS voting machines.
Southern Florida computer programmer testifies under oath that he was asked by now-Congressman Tom Feeney (R-FL) to write a prototype election-stealing programme. At the time, Mr. Feeney was Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives.
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