“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In my third semester of Deutsch, I understand that the difficulty of learning a language increases logarithmically. It’s like the skill leveling in a MUD of old. 1x to level up once. 1,000,000,000x to level up ten times. I …
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Der Dummkopf – The Fool
This first week of German class has not gone easily. I’ve never done distance learning, so I’m climbing uphill to figure out these learning management systems. The first assignment found me misreading the actual task, and I kept getting the answers wrong; I got distracted with learning the laptop’s Alt-Gr keys (so I can do …
Teatime of the Sophisticate
We get better by using our tools in the pursuit of excellence.
Wires and Rhyme
I wrote a lot of poetry in my younger days. Like, a lot. It was my jam. Sometimes there was meter, sometimes there was rhyme, but I considered myself more of a free-verse poet. And most of it was terrible (bad poetry, oh noetry!). But I kept writing — so much so that my friend …
CW, But For Real
A few years ago, I made an attempt to learn CW (Morse Code). I made an honest-to-god attempt. But I didn’t stick with it. Got frustrated with the apps I used, and never got fluent enough at copying symbols to rise above the frustration. Well, I was chatting with my buddy Michael KG5RXG. I had …