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<updated>2022-07-11T21:20:06+0800</updated>
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<title>kapsyël</title>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/headspace-claim.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/headspace-claim.gmi"/>
<updated>2022-07-11T21:19:17+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:d7926488-4c44-3a5c-b02f-08ddd2c5778b</id>
<title>Names as head-space claims</title>
<summary>
If you want someone to defend something, simply teach him a lot of
terms about various small details about the thing. If it is worth
defending for anyone at all, you will have no trouble making up fine
divisions for it.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/history-line.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/history-line.gmi"/>
<updated>2022-06-26T20:25:43+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:fb8db6ae-8837-3883-abf2-46c123a2a88e</id>
<title>The Great Dividing Line in History</title>
<summary>
There once was a tweet that I have read, but I have since lost. It
outlines a particular phenomenon that I want to elaborate on just a
little bit.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/wonder.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/wonder.gmi"/>
<updated>2022-06-21T20:38:39+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:bc871501-bb0b-3cd8-85a9-924e9e5b69ba</id>
<title>Wonder and Feeling Clever – alternatives to "subverting expectations"</title>
<summary>
The modern Hollywood and adjacent story-writing traditions nowadays
seem to gravitate upon the idea of "subverting expectations". For
various reasons, I find that largely irritating. In this short, I
explain why, and offer up the two alternatives in the title as
writing goals.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/noncharacters.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/noncharacters.gmi"/>
<updated>2022-06-06T14:15:25+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:2a418a17-5a12-345f-9ba5-11feb56713c6</id>
<title>Trolls & Utauloids – Internal Structure and Appeal</title>
<summary>
A long time ago I wrote something about characters. That isn't
important now, but I would like to say something that I have recently
learnt about myself. What I do want to talk about is how I consider
these things as being categorically different from other things that
they are basically permanently described as, and why.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/transport-mentality.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/transport-mentality.gmi"/>
<updated>2022-05-28T20:34:07+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:a03a4203-c91c-34c7-b74d-c62d75c2873c</id>
<title>Petrolheads and anoraks – the mentality of transport</title>
<summary>
A few weeks ago now I was in a conversation about how cars are bad,
lad, and we should have sent them all to the scrapyard a hundred and
one years ago (however, see n.b.s below). As with all conversations
that I tend to have, it went into very different places very quickly,
and the result was something that confused everyone and so it
ultimately went back to some other topic at some time. However, along
the way I noticed that there was an interesting point that I made
independent on anything else and I want to write a bit about it.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/masquerades.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/masquerades.gmi"/>
<updated>2022-05-06T14:26:25+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:db47f8aa-749c-3cdb-ada8-b5f859d4406a</id>
<title>Masquerades and re-attribution of man's accomplishments</title>
<summary>
When writing stories about the supernatural which purport to happen
in the real world, there is a consistent problem that needs to be
resolved: the fact that the supernatural parts of the world remains
entirely nonexistent in any part of the world that we examine.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/roads-and-life.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/roads-and-life.gmi"/>
<updated>2022-04-29T11:30:27+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:411952ce-1970-353e-9744-1b91c9944b16</id>
<title>How roads shaped my life</title>
<summary>
A few months ago I mused at how there are many people who like trains
(anoraks), roads (odologists), cars (petrol-heads) and even buses
(just "bus fans", it seems like). Soon I will write another article
about how these compare in general, but in this entry I want to
discuss how I end up taking some properties of all of these, and how
in general, much of my outside interests lie in the roads.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/mouse-pointer.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/mouse-pointer.gmi"/>
<updated>2022-04-04T21:35:09+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:c8e67642-be83-3e18-9c51-3f152c142cbf</id>
<title>The Mouse Pointer</title>
<summary>
A few days ago, I snapped this picture of a road sign, which contains
three live-updating displays that tell you how many minutes it takes
to go to the places indicated on the sign. The thing is, if you look
carefully, there is an unwelcome guest in the sign.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/mjr.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/mjr.gmi"/>
<updated>2022-03-16T19:24:52+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:4b757ae7-c58f-3f93-a2e8-04b62734a2b4</id>
<title>Mahjong game notation</title>
<summary>
This is a sketch of a file format that can be used to record a game
of mahjong. I developed it for use for my own variant, but it is
general enough to be used for most variants of mahjong.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/pi-mj.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/pi-mj.gmi"/>
<updated>2022-02-23T00:03:14+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:d56b580a-e507-3c61-a660-f6bd3e0d39f0</id>
<title>Mahjong and π</title>
<summary>
The first fourteen digits of π create a winning hand in almost every
variant of mahjong. How often do random collections of digits form
one? Are there any other famous ones?
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/cars.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/cars.gmi"/>
<updated>2022-02-22T16:44:01+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:1fe1ce39-3851-3cd8-9c02-82d4da9a5fcc</id>
<title>Cars and Power Demonstration</title>
<summary>
I have thought about cars a lot because ever since I was young I have
amassed a large amount of miniatures, and here are some of them.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/ujmj.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/ujmj.gmi"/>
<updated>2022-02-14T23:15:30+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:736106f0-4bcc-3823-9255-674e25565d7b</id>
<title>Ùzje Mahjong</title>
<summary>
Ùzje mahjong is a mahjong variant that is designed primarily for my
conworld, Ùzje. It is supposed to be a combination of a number of
other variants, along with a number of idiosyncratic changes that are
there just to be difficult. This document is not a complete document
of Ùzje mahjong, but rather a list of key differences that
distinguish it from other variants. In general, you should be able to
play the game if you have this document and some knowledge of either
Riichi mahjong or HKOS.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/station-songs.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/station-songs.gmi"/>
<updated>2022-02-14T18:32:29+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:592e1b4e-028c-399c-bd05-8cad68a1c5de</id>
<title>On station songs</title>
<summary>
Over the last few years I have been interested in a good number of
songs frequently found on YouTube. These songs all follow a very
specific pattern and is almost entirely by one small group of people
that you can't find on Wikipedia (and won't be on there for a long
time yet).
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/language-list.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/language-list.gmi"/>
<updated>2021-12-31T23:15:39+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:a5a5cf51-08b5-3601-b3a1-90169f88e9e5</id>
<title>Language list</title>
<summary>
This is a list of conlangs that I maintain. It represents the sum
total of all work since about 2008.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/jyutcitzi.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/jyutcitzi.gmi"/>
<updated>2021-12-06T22:50:26+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:b72b9f46-e518-3dfc-b62d-a4f2bd1ad159</id>
<title>Opinions on Jyutcitzi</title>
<summary>
Over on Twitter there is a new script in development for one of the
languages I speak, Cantonese. It is called jyutcitzi ("yuet chit
chi", in a more anglophone-friendly Romanisation scheme) They are all
over conventional social media, and I'll link a few here:
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/scheduler.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/scheduler.gmi"/>
<updated>2021-11-25T22:33:05+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:f4bea301-3619-3939-8771-7f3aa3458bdd</id>
<title>Dual-wielding planners</title>
<summary>
I have multiple organisational systems, and they work in
complementary ways. There is a digital setup which is centred on
org-mode, and an analogue planner or two which I bought commercially.
I'll describe how I ended up with this setup here, and also comment
on the setup itself and why I continue to use it despite whatever
flaws it might have.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/gem-org-odt.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/gem-org-odt.gmi"/>
<updated>2021-11-22T11:04:42+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:602080ab-b3ec-382c-86cc-8b71fb758d42</id>
<title>Writing all four ways</title>
<summary>
Over the last few months I've written articles in several different
ways, although the final product is not very easy to tell. Having now
performed this experiment (?), I can now discuss my reflections on
how each of the writing methods felt like, and how I'm going to
continue going forward.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/aesthetic.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/aesthetic.gmi"/>
<updated>2021-11-05T17:15:19+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:555d9cea-8ef7-3816-8090-ffdbad45d185</id>
<title>A particular aesthetic</title>
<summary>
One particular aesthetic that has always struck me ever since I grew
up can be found in the textbooks that my school uses (and most other
schools use).
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/energy-competition.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/energy-competition.gmi"/>
<updated>2021-10-23T15:57:38+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:3d2215b0-f25f-3424-8df2-7ee2956cd68c</id>
<title>Kvetching about Bitcoin – a quantitative approach</title>
<summary>
There had been no small amount of consternation about how
cryptocurrency and its current uses eats up a lot of power for
relatively little gain. However, a Twitter post has made me realise
just how little of a number sense I have on this particular subject:
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/twitch-stats.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/twitch-stats.gmi"/>
<updated>2021-10-09T22:42:17+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:7210075b-8dd9-31d5-b846-d5f45a75020c</id>
<title>Twitch earnings and the Zipfian distribution</title>
<summary>
Recently there was the Twitch leaks that someone packaged the
earnings subset of into a neat space-separated file. Since it’s so
easily read by machine I decided to do some simple graphs with it.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/notation.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/notation.gmi"/>
<updated>2021-10-03T22:09:18+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:afa2bc53-f0a6-3de3-b2fa-a5e054f22e88</id>
<title>Using notation to understand the world</title>
<summary>
Notation is the idea that an arbitrary object can be represented by
some other abstract object. A specific type of notation, which is the
one most people would understand in the conventional sense of the
word “notation”, is when the object doing the representing is
written. Commonly seen examples of notation include those that
represent maths, music, electrical circuits and even lists of
key-presses. In this article I discuss how notation has shaped my
understanding of things, and also propose a notation-oriented way of
understanding something.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/re/power-of-git.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/re/power-of-git.gmi"/>
<updated>2021-09-21T13:50:15+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:dc7bc220-0b7e-38fc-8591-b3ff34f7c00b</id>
<title>Re: Finally Understanding the Power of Git</title>
<summary>
This was greatly eye-opening to me. The list of remotes inside the
whole thing has always been a bit underused to me, but you have just
outlined the exact use case for the whole thing.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/monetising-conlangs.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/monetising-conlangs.gmi"/>
<updated>2021-09-17T23:38:55+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:058e3984-2473-3c0c-9213-2b915a37445f</id>
<title>Monetising conlangs</title>
<summary>
I have a small idea about how to use a conlang to get money. It's not
something that I have done, but it is something that I am capable of
doing in a technical sense.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/article-conventions.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/article-conventions.gmi"/>
<updated>2021-09-04T22:50:28+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:3e3e28f1-d4d8-3b7a-a6fc-58e98a90a216</id>
<title>Some article formatting standards for gemtext</title>
<summary>
I have noticed that I have followed a somewhat stricter syntax when
writing in Gemtext, so in this rather short article I will describe
it.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<link href="gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/digits-10-and-11.gmi"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/digits-10-and-11.gmi"/>
<updated>2021-08-28T20:30:50+0800</updated>
<id>urn:uuid:604fba54-299d-3853-ac3f-c5fa5150488f</id>
<title>My digits 10 and 11</title>
<summary>
Throughout all of my conlanging and occasionally my maths writing, it
is sometimes needed to add extra glyphs to represent digits in bases
greater than 10.
</summary>
<author>
<name>isoraqathedh</name>
</author>
</entry>
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