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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 [...]

• NaNoWriMo, NaNoWriMo 2008

  NaNoWriMo 2008 day 1

  11.01.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Yeah, well. I started okay, what with not having the faintest idea of what to write this year.  Got up early, fired up my work computer, and wrote some outline. So far so good. But unfortunately, my work computer, running Ubuntu, can’t detect the onboard sound card, which means I can’t listen to any music [...]

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  What I did this week.

  09.18.08 | Permalink | Comments Off

  I believe I have mentioned my love of Shadow Unit. It’s currently in hiatus, having finished Season One, and so some of us fans have decided to take advantage of the writers’ generous fan fiction policy to create a Round Robin fic. I just finished up my section, section 3, and the feedback’s been good [...]

Musings of a Creative Slacker

"Creative Slacker" referrs to the fact that I should be doing creative stuff – writing, art, 3D animation, RPG stuff, but I don't. Maybe "lazy bastard" would be more appropriate.

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