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Kana progress!
08.21.09 | Permalink | Comments OffWell, as of this morning, I can write out the entire Kana chart from memory! This was done using Windows Journal on a Toshiba Tecra tablet PC, so it’s slightly rougher than even my usual scrawl, and I’ve sneakily not saved the grid pattern that made everything all neat and organised. We will call it [...]
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The appalling state of my Kana handwriting
08.19.09 | Permalink | 2 CommentsMy kana (Hiragana and Katakana) handwriting as of Wednesday 19th 2009. I have managed to swap ら and り (third column from the left, top two characters), and I’ve only written the Katakana (bottom group) that I know so far. These are charts of all the kana (well, minus the ones I don’t know), in [...]
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Literacy
08.08.09 | Permalink | Comments Off? ? I have been teaching myself hiragana, one of the three Japanese scripts. I’m using Mnemosyne, a flash-card program that schedules cards cleverly so that the cards you remember well get scheduled less and less. I don’t remember learning to read English – as far as I am concerned, it’s as natural as breathing [...]
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$job
I am no longer a member of the Great Unwashed. I am now Gainfully Employed, or Sold Out To The Man, depending on your point of view. The Man in question is the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Glasgow, where I shall be helping keep their computers up and running. I shall be [...]
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There and back again.
I have, somewhat to my surprise, managed to survive England. After an ungodly amount of travel (10 hours or so?) I finally dragged myself back to my flat (be it ever so humble). Nicely, it would appear that my fears for my potatoes were somewhat unfounded. I have put together a Flickr photoset to show [...]
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Family visit
06.06.09 | Permalink | Comments OffI’ve not been blogging much – Twitter has been my normal outlet. But there have been a few things that I could have used longer-form writing for, like my spud-growing project (which I shall be calling Balcony Farm). However, I’ve been particularly away recently, as I’ve been Down South visiting my family. This was triggered [...]
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I can has roleplaying
10.12.08 | Permalink | Comments OffFinally met up with the Livingston Roleplayers after simply ages, for the first face-to-face roleplaying I’ve done in I don’t know how long. There was the small matter of an hour’s walk to get there in the first place, and the not quite so small matter of having to lever myself out of bed at [...]
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Good news at last!
08.18.08 | Permalink | Comments OffRecieved a bit of mail from the Home Office today (via my M.P., the inestimable Right Honourable Dr. John Reid M.P), in which it is revealed that they have finally found the proof that I did, in fact, get Unlimited Leave To Remain on the 13th of March 1984. It’s not quite everything I need, [...]
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Adventures in housebreaking
I’ve never liked Yale-type locks, the type where it automatically locks when the door shuts. I’ve always done everything I can to have deadbolt locks on my front door for one reason: you can’t lock yourself out. In order to leave the house, you have to lock the door manually yourself. Thus, you can’t ever [...]
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