Kavaliro Kaprica

Black and White

2007-04-13T05:54:39Z

I got sucked in to watching Trading Spouses tonight. It's like a train wreck--you know it's going to end badly but you're powerless to look away. Tonight's train wreck featured the crazy Christian lady who made the show famous and some militant black family. The black man and black woman would speak of nothing that didn't involve racial inequality, "Africans," and how she couldn't understand his black culture. It made me embarrassed for black people.

I particularly loved the quote, "I'm not prejudice against white people, I'm prejudice for black people." Listen. A bigot is still a bigot. It irritates me to no end hearing a black person get all spun up on color, with phrases like, "You can never understand my culture." Well let me lay it down for the record:

I have at least one black ancestor. 99.999% of American blacks have more caucasian ancestry than African. My skin happens to be white, and I grew up in a white culture, but that doesn't change the fact that I've got just as much genetic claim on Africa as the charcoal-est black man.
I have actually been to Africa. This alone makes me more qualified to use the word Africa in a sentence. Until you've spoken against Apartheid on African soil, witnessed the bigotry and prejudice there, or spoken a whole sentence in Afrikaans or Swahili, don't even think the word, "African," about yourself. Until you've sat on a rock at the southern tip of the continent to watch the sun rise over one ocean and come back the same day to the same rock and watched the sun set over a different ocean, or had some other real experience in Africa, you're just not worthy.
I got a call just today from one of the boys who used to live in the neighborhood, who is one of my son's best friends. I love him like he's my own. We offered him a home when his mother died, and that offer stands to this day. He's black. So what? I respect that he comes from a different culture than me, and he gives me the same respect. There's never even been an issue.

Most of the black people I know barely know anyone who lived during Martin Luther King, Jr's day. Much less anyone who's ever been a slave. It's not a part of your culture. It's a part of your culture's past. Get over it. As I said, I have at least one black ancestor, so when you get your 40 and a mule, just remember my white butt will be right there in the next field over.

Most white people now-a-days will say something like, "I don't see color. I'm colorblind." And black people scoff. Let me tell you a secret: the only people who are keeping blacks suppressed are blacks. And they're doing that by perpetuating the culture of fear, loathing and intolerance within the black community for themselves on behalf of white people and for white people for things that happened two to seven generations ago. The sooner you get over yourselves as a culture, the sooner we can get on with the business of being a single society. White culture is ready. Black culture is not. To black culture, I say, "Grow up!"

The documentary, Black/White illustrated exactly what I mean. The black people just couldn't get over his blackness. The white people were mostly just dumbfounded by the crazy things black people interpreted as racism. I loved when the black guy tried to make his point by taking the white guy around to hang with black people playing dominoes. The guy was uncomfortable because all the black guys were loud and boisterous and he wasn't used to it. Period. Any other conclusions you drew from that were wrong. Even the black guy who took him there was looking uncomfortable and out of his element. Then there was the scene where the black guy was trying to prove that white people wouldn't help a stranded pair of black men and of course everyone did. That black guy was furious! But he missed the whole lesson. The lesson was, it's not about color, it's about risk assessment. If you look dangerous, people will avoid you. They could have dressed like white thug bikers and no one would have helped them. But two black guys dressed appropriately for the environment pose no more threat than two white guys dressed appropriately. White people generally don't care about color anymore. Only black people see race everywhere. Do yourself and your culture a favor and quit jumping at the shadows of an earlier age.

Poll: 60% of Americans await recession

2007-04-11T23:55:27Z

"Most say a recession in the next year is somewhat or very likely; more than a third view their own finances as 'shaky,' newspaper reports. The poll of 1,373 adults conducted for the Los Angeles Times and financial news wire Bloomberg found that 60 percent of those surveyed said recession was somewhat or very likely within the next year..."

Await? That implies that it hasn't already started. Recession? Boy, is THAT optimistic.
I can name several telltales that have already flat-lined. The entire mortgage and realty industries have totally tanked. The transportation industry has been on the verge of collapse since the last time gas prices soared out of control, and with the predictions laid out for this summer's gas prices, it's pretty much guaranteed the transportation industry will tank, even if the federal government steps in and tries to help. Once that happens, it's over. As in, "Game over, man! Game OVER!" And that's not even considering the disappearance of the bees which will k-line the food industry, or the drought that's been forcast,

If you're not filling your pantry with staples like rice and beans (and clean drinking water!) now, you'll be hungry or dead by summer's end. I sure hope that statement turns out to be a load of crap, but I don't see ANY signs that make me think otherwise.

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You may never have to pay income tax again--if Ed Brown can get to court

2007-02-10T21:58:32Z

The continuing story of Ed Brown, the New Hampshire man who asserts Americans don't have to pay income tax and can use the tax code to prove it. With enough support, Ed may get his day in court--and that's precisely what scares the IRS. Digg this up, make some noise, and let's see what one stubborn person can do!!

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Pirated Version of Windows Vista Selling for $8 in Iran

2007-02-08T21:09:05Z

"Microsoft has taken all possible steps to protect their latest and most advanced OS. Still all efforts are turning out in vain as according to reports the operating system is already been cracked by some Iranian hackers."
Obviously, Iranians have no idea what the value of U.S. currency is. I wouldn't take a copy of Vista if someone paid me. But pay money for it? No way.

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Open Source Is democratising Knowledge

2007-02-05T18:23:23Z

"In September 1991, when Linux Torvalds, a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, released 10,000 lines of code on the Internet, nobody could have believed that it would spark off a revolution. In the 15 years since then, Linux has grown into an enormously capable operating system that contains more than 100 million lines of code."

Geez, that's a 10-pound buzzphrase in a 5-pound bag. Of course, it came from Redhat's Marketing Director, so what should I have expected?

But I must admit that the point is somewhat valid, if slanted. While it's not Linux specifically that's "democratizing knowledge," it is the ideals upon which Linux was built: the Free Software Movement and the Open Source Movement. You see the "democratization of knowledge" every day: Wikipedia (the best example, probably), Everything2, Project Gutenberg, Sourceforge, the various p2p networks, and of course, blogs. In fact, you could even argue that democracy's only safe haven lately has been these projects and networks. It's certainly taking a beating from the current Whitehouse Administration.

But I wouldn't point specifically at Linux and say, "That's where it all came from." I'd look more toward the likes of Richard Stallman and Eric Raymond. Linux just happened to be the first fruit of that democracy.

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Are immigrants really taking our jobs?

2007-01-13T18:13:55Z

The unemployment rate here in the U.S. is, in reality, HUGE. It seems small because of how it's counted by the politicians, who want to be able to say unemployment is low. For instance, those receiving unemployment benefits are not counted, because they are "employed" by the unemployment agency, trying to find employment. Those who can't qualify for unemployment rarely bother registering with the unemployment agency. So all you really have left for the statistics are those who didn't know that they didn't qualify. The real unemployment rate in the U.S. is closer to 25% than 4%. Look around you. Count your friends and family, and everyone you know. Obviously we're being lied to.

Those who are working are working extremely long hours for insufficient wages. Regardless of any other measurement, if you can't afford to pay the utilities, rent, AND put food on the table with ONE paycheck in the household, then your wages are insufficient. (Anything else, such as credit card bills, don't count.)

I blame over-regulation of small businesses and under-regulation of large corporations. I blame Con-Agra destroying America's Heartland wholesale with the blessing of corrupt Congressmen. I blame the government's war on drugs, which creates and maintains the ghettos of America by fostering organized crime.

But I don't blame immigrants from Mexico. There should always be jobs for unskilled workers, in a healthy economy.

If the unemployment rates here in the U.S. where ACTUALLY 4% there would never be an issue with immigration.

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What Esperanto means to me./ Kion esperanto signifas laŭ mi.

2006-12-15T23:42:45Z

Today is Esperanto Day. As part of the EsperantoTago festivities, many Esperantist bloggers are writing about Esperanto and the language problem in general, and have translated into Esperanto entries for interested non-esperantists. It's a good deal for everyone. Esperanto gets a little positive attention from the blogging community, and people the blogging community get something interesting on their blogs.	Jen EsperantoTago. Parte de la EsperantoTagaj festaĵoj, multaj da eo blogistoj skribas pri esperanto kaj la lingva problemo ĝenerale, kaj tradukis al esperanto la blogerojn de neesperantistoj interesita. Estas bona afero por ĉiu. Esperanto recivas iometan pozitivan atenton de la blogistaro, kaj la blogistaranoj recivas interesaĵon je la blogoj.
This is what Esperanto means to me.	Jen la signifo de esperanto laŭ mi.
I've been speaking Esperanto for a few years now. I very much enjoy speaking it. To me it sounds like a cross between Russian and Italian. I find Esperanto to be vastly more expressive than English. I know that ruffles feathers, but every time someone has challenged the statement, they leave frustrated at not succeeding and I leave more convinced than ever. But as much fun as those contests are, in the end, they accomplish nothing.	Mi parolis esperante dum kelkaj jaroj. Mi tre multe ĝuas paroli ĝin. Laŭ mi, sonas kiel mikso de la ruso kaj la itala. Mi trovas esperanton tre multe pli esprimplenan ol la angla. Mi scias, ke tio kolerigas iun, sed ĉiam oni provis la aserton, oni finas frustra pro nesukseso, kaj mi finas pli konvinkita ol antauxe. Sed
In the beginning, I was very gung-ho about Esperanto changing the world. Someday, it might. Now, I feel happy knowing a very culturally aware group of people from around the world, and I don't care so much about it's adoption as an international language. In a way, that would be nice, but it would disrupt the very beautiful culture that Esperantists share. I am content to watch Esperanto grow at it's own pace, as a "grass-roots" movement.	Komence, mi estis tre fervorega, pri la Movado, ke ĝi mondĉangigos. Iame, ĝi povus. Nun, mi feliĉas koni tre kultureman tutmondan grupon, kaj mi tiel ne fervore zorgas pri la adopto tiel internacia lingvo. Iale, estus bona, sed tio rompus la tre belegan kulturon ke esperantisoj partoprenas. Mi kontentiĝas vidi esperanto, kreskanta po ĝia memrapido, kiel desuba movado.
The culture of Esperantists is really the language's strength. It's hard to explain to someone who hasn't experienced it. At first, when you begin to learn the language, it's all about grammar and vocabulary, which are surprisingly simple, for all that some say it's not. Just compare it to English, or French, or Spanish, and you'll see it's quite easy. But then, once you're able to grasp the meaning of sentences, once you pick up a bit and really start learning to speak it, you end up having this moment. Almost every Esperantist I know can tell you of the same experience. You're at a meeting, or conference, and you suddenly realize that your world just got alot bigger. You're a part of something that is bigger than yourself, something "ubuntu." Ubuntu is about connectedness and community, about responsibility to promote communication and empathy. In English, ubuntu is almost impossible to describe. In Esperanto, I believe homanarismo translates it perfectly.	La kulturo de esperantistoj estas vere la forto de la lingvo. Ĝi estas manfacila ekspliki al iu, kiu ne havis la sperton. Unue, kiam oni eklernas la lingvon, temas pri gramatiko kaj vort-provizo, kiuj estas suprize simpla, nekonsiderinde opinioj de la neakordantoj. Nur kompari al la angla aŭ la franca aŭ la hispana, kaj vi vidos ke ĝi tre facilas. Sed poste, kiam oni eblas teni la signifon de frazoj, kiam oni tenas iometo kaj vere ekparolas, jen oni havas eŭrekan momenton. La plej parto da esperantistoj kiu mi konas, povus diri pri la sama sperto. Oni ĉeestas kunvenon, kaj oni ekkomprenas, ke la mondo kiu oni scias, ekkreskis. Oni partoprenas ion kiu plilarĝas ol oni mem, ion "ubuntu." Ubuntu signifas simile al homanarismo, kaj laŭ mi, tio estas perfekta traduko.
Esperanto means community, friendship, and the possibility of world harmony. Each person who learns and uses it adds to it's value. I have no doubt that a linguistically superior language could be made. But it wouldn't have the cultural value that Esperanto has, and that comes from it's speakers, not it's grammar or vocabulary. In the end, what we get from Esperanto depends on us.	Esperanto signifas komunumon, amikecon, kaj la eblecon de mondharmonio. Ĉiu ajn kiu lernas kaj uzas ĝin, donas al la valoro. Mi ne dubas ke lingveme plibona lingvo povus fariĝi. Sed ĝi ne havus la kultura valoro de esperanto, kiu originas de la parolantoj, nek de la gramatiko, nek de la vort-provizo. En la fino, dependas je ni, kion ni recivas de esperanto.

Emacs

2006-11-03T04:44:07Z

I've been toying with Emacs for a week or so now. I must say, as a long time vi fan, I've never given Emacs much of a chance before now. The only thing I don't like about Emacs so far is that when I put something in a window, I want it to stay there. I don't want to have to chase down the same buffer time after time. Other than that, it's ok. Better than ok, it's damn useful.

Hura! Hooray!

2006-10-31T18:27:11Z

Lastatempe, mi petis Sro. Donald Broadribb, ĉu ni uzus liajn tradukojn de la Oz rakontoj je Projekta Gutenbergo. Li jus skribis al mi, jes! Bonege! Li fakte donas permeson ankaŭ por la Doktoro Dolittle libroj kaj menciis alia verkoj, pri kiu li havas la kopirajtojn! Tute bonege! Iom da la tradukoj kiun li verkis: la 14 Oz libroj de Frank Baum, la du Doktoro Dolittle Libroj, kaj kompleta traduko de "La Respubliko" de Platono, kaj "Kratilo" de Platono, tradukitaj el la helena lingvo, kaj multaj, multaj alia. Do, la nombro da esperanta libroj je Projekta Gutenbergo baldaŭ kreskegas!

Not long ago, I asked Mr. Donald Broadribb if we could use his translations of the Oz stories on Project Gutenberg. He just wrote to me, yes! Great! In fact, he gave permission for the Doctor Doolittle books and mentioned other works that he has the copyrights for! Totally awesome! Some of the translations he's done: All 14 of the Oz books by Frank Baum, the Doctor Dolittle books, and the complete translation of "The Rupublic" and "Cratylus" by Plato, translated from the Hellenic language, and many, many others. So, the number of esperanto books at Project Gutenberg will soon greatly grow!

English only today: IEsucks.

2006-10-24T04:29:13Z

Every time I do a website, I am amazed at how badly Internet Exploder sucks. Microsoft has some of the brightest minds in the world, and yet, they can't properly implement css standards to save thier company. I have to admit that IE7 is an improvement. It supports floats now, and transparent images, but it's still not working correctly. No wonder web designers get paid so well. It's more magic than anything else, getting something to work correctly. In a normal programming job, you know the language, how it works, and the better you know it, the more you can do. In web design, you learn HTML, PHP, CSS, Perl, and half a dozen other things, which if designed by or for sane people would be one language, and then you learn that, "Oh, by the way, Internet Exploder, which because most of the world is retarded, most of the world uses, is broken in every concievable way, so now you have to learn to write code that also bitch-slaps IE into displaying the same thing Firefox or Opera does flawlessly." Which usually involves tricking IE into executing some section of it's code by adding some obscure property and setting it to not actually do anything.
But even Firefox and Opera blow chunks when it comes to Scaleable Vector Graphics. Geez, SVG has been around since, what, 2001? Now, when I say that SVG is the Esperanto of webdesign, I feel I have enough knowledge about both to make that comparison. Both are the greatest thing since the wheel in thier fields, and both are stuck in limbo because apparently no browser programmers can figure out how to implement something that's fundamental to displaying anything: how and where to draw lines, circles, and text! Ok, to be fair, progress is being made. But, I can't imagine... isn't drawing lines what a browser already does? And yet, Firefox just sucks at SVG. Even Opera doesn't fully support SVG. I just don't understand.

Microsoft of course has no excuse for any of their failings. It's plain and simple: they have enough money to throw at problems, that they should be able to fix anything. IE broken? Can't make sense of the spaghetti code anymore? Hire a crack team of coders (there are surely enough of them unemployed!) and have them rewrite the whole thing as a clean-room reverse engineer, with good coding practices. When it's better than the old version, toss out the old version. I know I'm hard of Microsoft, but look-- the only program that they ever got right was Excel. Everything else from them has been buggy garbage from the operating system to the word processor to the email client (and server) to the games. In 31 years, they have just two successes. Excel, and their marketing strategies. And in that time, they've done more damage to computing and copyright laws than we can ever fathom.

Ŝarka Saltado kaj amikkunvenado/Shark Jumping and friendmeeting.

2006-10-14T05:27:20Z

Malĝojas mi pri Ĝangalo. Mi certe aplaŭdas Flavio Rebello por tiu retpaĝo, kiu famas laŭ esperantistoj. Sed ĝi fermos la pordojn je jarfino, se neniu aĉetos sin. Mi pensas ke la tempo por mona sukseso kun tiaj aferoj ne jam okazis. Eble tiu tempo neniam okazos.

Je plej bona noto, mi kunvenis kun mia amikoj hodiaŭ, kaj ankaŭ kun nova amiko Scott REDD, kiu vizitas nin en Aŭstino. Mi tre ĝuis renkonti lin, kaj mi esperas skribadi kun li, kiam li reiras hejme. Ankaŭ, la "Saltu la Ŝarkon" festo, kiu mia amiko, 6opou , priskribis, ne kunligis kun EKA, do mi incitiĝis pri nenio. Preskaŭ la tuta klubo kunvenis hodiaŭ, kaj la lastatempaj neĉeestiĝoj de la anoj estis pri propraj aferoj, ne ĉar ni saltas la ŝarkon. Do, mi (super)saltis la pafilon. ;) Aŭ eble, mi saltis al la Insulo de Konkludoj, kaj poste mi devis tranaĝi returne la Maron de Sciado. (referenco al bonega libro, La Fantoma Pagbudo)

It makes me unhappy about Ĝangalo. I certainly applaud Flavio Rebello for that website, which is has fame with esperantists. But it will close it's doors at year's end, if no one buys it. I think that the time for monetary success with such things hasn't yet occurred. Maybe that time will never happen.

On a better note, I met with my (esperantist) friends today, and also with a new friend, Scott Redd, who is visiting us in Austin. I very much enjoyed meeting him, and I hope to continue writing with him when he returns home. Also, the "Jumping the Shark" festival which my friend, 6opou , wrote about, wasn't linked with EKA, so I got excited about nothing. Almost the whole club met today, and the lately-not-being-there of the members was about personal affairs, not because of jumping the shark. So, I jumped the gun. ;) Or possibly, I jumped to the Island of Conclusions and afterwards had to swim back through the the Sea of Knowledge. (a ref to a great book, The Phantom Tollbooth)

Nova ilo/New tool

2006-10-12T18:55:48Z

This is a great tool for esperantists, released under the GPL. It translates from esperanto, checks spelling, converts x-method to hatted letters, and diagrams your sentences. It may be a bit rough around the edges still, but it's quite functional.

http://www.xdobry.de/esperantoedit/index.html

Ĉi tio estas bonega ilo por esperantistoj, donita sub la GPL. Ĝi tradukas de esperanto, redaktas ortografion, konvertas la X-metodon al ĉapelita literoj, kaj diagramas la frazojn. Ĝi eble estas iomete kruda ĉirkaŭ la randoj jam, sed ĝi sufiĉe funkcias.

http://www.xdobry.de/esperantoedit/index.html

kavaliro @ 2006-10-06T08:33:00

2006-10-06T14:05:57Z

Kion mi esperas pri esperanto-tago estas, ke ĝi sufiĉe grandas, ke retejoj tia Technorati vidas la novaĵon kaj diras, "Kiel ni ne sciis pri tio afero?" Espereble ĝi kreskas sufiĉe grandan, ke ne ŝajnas ŝercon. Tio estas mia timo, ĉar povus esti facila por iomete malkredi la movadon se ni ne suksesigus. Tamen, la pli grava aĵo laŭ mi estas disdoni sciadon pri esperanto al junuloj. La sola kialo ke mi ne eklernis esperanto pli frua en mia vivo estis ĉar mi ne prisciis. Se la sciadon pri esperanto kreskas, la movado certe kreskas ankaŭ. Tiale, laŭ mi, esperanto-tago gravas multe. Se cent homoj, kiu ne aliamaniere scionta esperanto, eklernus sin, ĝi suksesus.

What I hope concerning Esperanto-Day is that it is big enough that websites such as Technorati see the news and say, "How did we not know about this thing?" Hopefully it grows big enough that it won't seem like a joke. That's my fear, becaus it would be easy to somewhat discredit the Movement if we don't make it suceed. However, the most important thing, I think, is to spread knowledge about esperanto to young people. The only reason I didn't learn esperanto sooner was that I didn't know about it. If knowledge of Esperanto grows, the Movement surely will also grow. That's the reason I think Esperanto day matters so much. If a hundred people, who otherwise would not have known about esperanto, start learning it, it will be a success.

kavaliro @ 2006-10-05T02:58:00

2006-10-05T08:02:22Z

So Mark Foley admits he's gay.

Big deal. We kinda figured.

Did he admit he's a pedophile? That would be more newsworthy.

EKA

2006-10-02T01:07:41Z

Denove, nur mi kaj Rob cxeestis. Kia fio estas tio? Jeremio ja decidis ke li fordonis kontrolo de la retpaĝo, kaj Rob gastigos gxin, kaj baldaŭ ni havos "reta 2.0" retpaĝon, kun kaj drupal kaj vikio. Mi pensas, ke la unua diskuto de la nova retpaĝo ne povus esti pri "Kial vi ajn ne ĉeestis?", sed fio okazas. La esperanto movado ne mortiĝos en Aŭstino. La demandoj, laŭ mi, estas: Kion vi ne gajnas ĉi tie, ke vi volas? Ĉu vi ne ŝatas la tempon de la kunveno, ĉu alia tempo plibonus? Ofte, ni nur babilas. Ĉu vi deziras fari ion verkon? (Ni havas multon de kiu ni povus elekti) Ĉu ni bezonas pli formala klubon? Eble la malformala formato estas malagrabla por iu. Eble, se oni tenas titolo kaj respondeco, oni pli ofte atendas. Ni fakte havas multan esperantistoj en Aŭstino, eble dekkvin aŭ simila. Se la tuto kunlaboras, estas tiel granda por formalaj regoj. La libro, Robert's Rules of Order indikas ke pli ol dekdu popoloj estas sufiĉa. Sed nun, ĉu ne havas pli ol du? Jes, sed ŝajnas ke ne. Malbonas. Espereble, ni eblas spiri novan vivon al la klubo, kun la helpo de la nova retpaĝo. Mi ne scias.

Bad precedent.

2006-09-29T03:46:41Z

I'm very concerned with the utter lack of governance this country seems to be suffering from. From the looks of things, Congress is a pirhanna bowl starved to the point where they are eating each other, and anything that gets too close.

How is it, that they could even think of legitimizing torture, in any form? How could we go so long with untried human beings sitting in Guantanimo? Oh sure, it sounds like it's a necessary evil. But the facts are, by denying the prisoners the rights you would give an american, you deny the founding principle upon which this country was forged; "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Essentially, that says that everyone on this planet are equals, and should be treated as such.

Our government is so drunk off the blood of the innocent that it's absurd to them to actually look into the future and see what kind of damage they are creating. Any "terrorist" deserves to be dehumanized, brutalized, and held without reason, right? Well, my friends, look into the future and say the same thing when the "terrorist" is simply your sister or brother, or your own child, who said something or recorded something the government didn't want said or recorded. Look into the future where people who post on the internet evidence of police or government wrongdoing get quietly kidnapped in the middle of the night and hauled off to a "detainment center," where they get treated like animals, chained to the floor, raped, and undergo grueling phychological treatment such as pumping damaging levels of sound into the cell?

When it's your son or daughter hauled off because of the legislation being passed right now, just remember who you voted into office. I feel ashamed that I'm not already in a picket line somewhere protesting.

kavaliro @ 2006-09-27T12:48:00

2006-09-27T18:09:04Z

Yay for bug trackers! I was in the process of submitting a bug for Scribus because the Story Editor didn't display Esperanto specific (unicode) characters correctly. And because I was so worried about looking like an idiot, I figured out what was causing the problem. The default display font for the story editor is MS Serif (for the Windows build, anyway), which doesn't play well with others. So I (at least) am fixed.

Se vi havas problemojn kun la tekstoredaktilo de Scribus, tia ne montras capelitajn literojn, faru tiojn aĵojn: en la tekstoredaktilo, klaku "Agordaro," "Montru Tiparon," kaj elekti ne-"MS Serif" tiparon. Mi uzas "Times New Roman." (La supra angla teksto ne samsignifas, sed mi ne volas traduki ĝin. Anstataŭe, mi nur tekstis la solvon.)

Maltrafa okazo

2006-09-27T13:16:27Z

Laŭ mia amiko, Roberto, esperantisto Novjorka vizitas lin hodiaŭ, kaj ili iros al roka koncerto. Sed ĉar estas lerneja tago por miaj infanoj, mi ne povus iri. Bedaŭrinde. Mi volus renkonti la Novjorkano. Jes, mi povus iri nekonsiderinde, sed mi respondecas. Diable. ;) Espere, li ne vizitas nur unu tagon.

According to my friend, Robert, an esperantist from New York is visiting him today, and they are going to a rock concert. But because it's a school night for my kids, I can't go. I'd like to meet the New Yorker, Yeah, I could go anyway, but I've got 'sponsitilities. Dangit. Hopefully he's not visiting for just a single day.

Ligo de la tago

2006-09-27T02:45:47Z

Jen ĉi tio interesa ligo: http://www.makrobiotiko.it/
Temas pri Makrobiotiko.

Here's an interesting link: (in Esperanto) http://www.makrobiotiko.it/
It's about Macrobiotics.

Lazy Day/pigra tago

2006-09-26T01:02:35Z

Mi ne volas skribi grandan poŝton hodiaŭ, do mi nur donas ligon:
Jen la Nitobe Centro Por Lingvo Demokraco. (tio ligo esperantas)

I dont want to write a long post today, so I'm only giving a link:
Here's the Nitobe Centre for Language Democracy. (this link is in English)

kavaliro @ 2006-09-24T23:59:00

2006-09-25T05:07:27Z

Ĉu iu ajn esperantistoj uzas ĉifrilon? Jen mia ŝlosila idento: 0x54D1D809
Do any esperantists out there use (public key) encryption tools? Here's my key id: 0x54D1D809
Bonvolu skribi al mi.

EKA meeting/ EKA kunveno

2006-09-25T00:57:52Z

Only Rob and I were there today at the Esperanto Club of Austin meeting, but it seems we have the most interesting conversations when it's just us. We talked about Project Gutenberg and the fact that there are now 17 Esperanto books there. We talked about the fragmented situation of the Esperantists in the Americas, and how it would be nice to have a solid yearly convention. We talked about the possibility of having such a convention in Central America and having ELNA charter a bus to go to it. We talked about the need for a honestly decent series of textbooks geared toward elementary, middle, and high schools with curriculums for each, and what it would take to produce such a thing. Even though it was just the two of us, we had a great time.

Nur Roberto kaj mi cxeestis hodiaŭ ĉe la Esperanto Klubo de Aŭstino kunveno, sed ŝajnas ke ni havas la plej interesajn konversaciojn, kiam estas ni nur. Ni parolis pri Projekto Gutenbergo kaj pri la fakto ke nun estas 17 esperanta libroj tie. Ni parolis pro la nekunligeco de la esperantistoj en la Amerikoj, kaj ke estus agrabla por havi fortan jare kunvenon. Ni parolis pri la ebleco de gastigi tiun kunvenon en Centra Ameriko kaj havi ELNA ĉarti buson por veturi tie. Ni parolis pri la bezono por vere bonega serio de lernlibroj, skribita specife por elementaj, mezaj, kaj gimnaziaj lernejoj, kun instruplanoj por ĉiu, kaj kio necesas por krei tian aĵon. Malgraŭ estis nur la du da ni, ni havis bonfojon.

Esperanto Sighting

2006-09-23T22:23:36Z

I found a game at the local "Everything's a Buck" store called simply, "Ludo." I thought it made an interesting, if dubious, sighting.

Here's a link to a recording of my friend Rob reading "Marŝi." http://robertlread.net/marsxi.mp3

Mi trovis ludon ĉe la loka "Ĉio Kostas (unu) Dolaron" butiko, kiu nomiĝas simple, "Ludo." Mi pensis ke ĝi faris interesa, se duba, ekvido.

Jen ligon al registro de mia amiko, Roberto, kiu legas "Marŝi." http://robertlread.net/marsxi.mp3

Esperanto Culture

2006-09-22T17:36:09Z

I have 320 (and growing) links under Esperanto on delicious, so I thought it fitting to put a spotlight on some of them, semi-randomly. So here is the first:
http://www.icxlm.org/kulturoa.htm
This website features an article written about the culture of Esperanto by Ronald J. Glossop, which appears in Spanish, English, and Esperanto. It's very informative, and covers topics such as poetry, literature, and even gestures.
Mi havas 320 (kaj keskadas) ligojn sub "esperanto" sur "delicious", do mi pensas ke taugas por loklampigi iom da ili, iomete hazarde. Jen la unua:
http://www.icxlm.org/kulturoe.htm
Ĉi tio retpago enhavas artikolon skribata pri la kulturo de esperanto de Ronald J. GLOSSOP, kiu aperis en la hispana, la angla, kaj esperanto. Estas tre informa, kaj temas pri poezioj, lituraturo, kaj eĉ gestoj.

Esperanto Tago/Esperanto Day

2006-09-22T01:27:38Z

Mi tre eksitiĝas pri Esperanto Tago, la 15a de Novembro, kiam multaj blogistoj tutmonde skribos pri la movado en ilia nacia lingvo kaj esperanto. Tiale, mi rekomencas blogi. Mi provos skribi etajn poŝtojn, ĉar mi pli probable skribados tiale. Do, jen mia unua!

I'm very excited about Esperanto Day, the 15th of November, when many bloggers worldwide will write about the movement in their national language and Esperanto. Because of that, I'm recommencing to blog. I am going to try to write small posts, because I'll more likely continue to write that way. So, behold the first!