There's nothing to it
Fri Sep 18, 2009 22:59 EST (UTC -5)The Esperanto Club at UF kicked off its second year on Tuesday. Andy and I presented the story of our summer and how we used Esperanto.
The photo-within-a-photo you see there was taken while I was lining up to give a greeting at the Cultural Language Festival, which was part of the International Youth Congress of Esperanto in the Czech Republic. I'm on the far right; the others, from left to right, are South Korean, Togolese, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. And yes, people from Togo are Togolese. I looked that up. (Hint to geography-types: if feel you have to add an extra letter when tacking on -ese, try a different suffix. I would have guessed "Togoan.") Incidentally, Andy had at least one good conversation with the South Korean, and I later hung out with the Ukrainian in Berlin (also mentioned in the aforelinked post, which is extremely long and thus covers a rather long time period).
And apparently, this photo was published on the cover of La Ondo de Esperanto (The Wave of Esperanto), a magazine I used to subscribe to but, alas, don't any longer. I'll try to hunt down a copy.
In my last post, I discussed my ambivalence about eating Krishna Lunch on campus. In the end, I didn't feel so ambivalent about it at all, and my sister and I enjoyed Krishna Lunch together yesterday. I think they have something different each day of the week. I hadn't had Krishna Lunch too many times before, but I must have had it on a Thursday because I recognized the food: rice and some yellow stuff with salad and some sweet blueberry-flavored mashed-potato-looking thing.
This didn't occur to me before, but I'm surprised that Aramark, the company that monopolistically runs all eating establishments on campus, allows Krishna Lunch to operate. It wouldn't surprise me if Aramark had considered giving the Krishnas the boot—they do siphon off Aramark's business, after all—only to realize that there would be rioting in the streets if students didn't have their $4 "karma-free" plates. (I say "karma-free" in quotation marks because karma isn't real.)
Also, I mentioned Krishna Lunch in 2006, when the price (technically, suggested donation) was a mere $3. It rose recently to little indignation.
For the nerds: song lyrics as pseudocode. (Via The Presurfer)
Art: the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States, spelled out on license plates from each state. (Via The Presurfer)
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8 comments
#1 by kristen: Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:22 EST (UTC -5)
some sweet blueberry-flavored mashed-potato-looking thing
that's called halvah. off-topic, but it's crazy that i still know the minimal amount of html to italicize that.
#2 by Joshua: Sat Oct 03, 2009 01:25 EST (UTC -5)
ambivalence about eating Krishna Lunch on campus. In the end, I didn't feel so ambivalent about it at all
Is there new thought behind this decision, or did I miss a step on the previous post.
(Have you thought of adding an OpenID option? How much spam do you get? And "small" is not listed as a permitted tag, so this parenthetical is a test....
#3 by Jordon Kalilich: Sat Oct 03, 2009 18:17 EST (UTC -5)
People just sort of convinced me that it didn't really matter if I bought Krishna Lunch. Simple as that, really.
I'm not terribly interested in OpenID. I get lots of spam attempts every day, but very few ever make it through my hackish anti-spam barrier.
I've stuck with WordPress's default list of allowed tags (which I assume can be changed somehow). Incidentally, I'd imagine that "small" isn't allowed so spammers can't stealthily introduce irrelevant keywords or something.
#4 by Joshua: Sat Oct 03, 2009 19:39 EST (UTC -5)
People just sort of convinced me that it didn't really matter if I bought Krishna Lunch.
Was there logic involved? :-) I'd like to hear it.
#5 by Jordon Kalilich: Sat Oct 03, 2009 19:52 EST (UTC -5)
My reasoning is that Krishna Lunch shouldn't be profiting from me if I buy food from them and that no one is going to judge me if I buy it.
#6 by Joshua: Sat Oct 03, 2009 20:04 EST (UTC -5)
My reasoning is that Krishna Lunch shouldn't be profiting from me if I buy food from them
Aarghfuckinghellmodalverbs. Epistemic-should or deontic-should? I agree with the deontic, but do you have any evidence for the epistemic?
#7 by Jordon Kalilich: Sat Oct 03, 2009 21:19 EST (UTC -5)
I meant both. I bet they aren't, and if they are, they ought not to. (I heart the English language sometimes.)
As for the meaning that I think you're thinking of, a page on the Krishna Lunch web site says, "As a non-profit, we have no profits to cut."
#8 by Joshua: Sat Oct 03, 2009 21:49 EST (UTC -5)
For the nerds: song lyrics as pseudocode.
Can I use [pre]? I'll try nesting [code] inside it. What will it do with the ampersands? No idea.
if ($belief) {print "I came here to stay";}
else {
local $you, $me, $him, @life;
$you = Oceans();
$me = Oceans();
$him = Oceans();
@waves = (Oceans(), Oceans(), Oceans(), Oceans());
for (;;) {
if ($you && $me && $him && @waves) {last;}
}
eval{
print Parent($love);
};
if ($@){
print 'ERR: Parent of $love unknown!' . "\n";
};
push(@life, $me);
$me = pop(@life);
push(@life, $me) || exit;
}
sub Oceans {
return rand();
}
Three guesses on the band I used: