Practicing Gallifreyan

I've been practicing my Gallifreyan. It's quite fun. But there are some aspects of the not-quite language - it's really more of a code - that make it difficult. For example, a lot of the "rules" are purely aesthetic. How the dots look on the letters, or how long the lines are, can vary depending on mood or your particular style of drawing. It might, however, allow for the Time Lord version of "handwriting" I guess. I also find that the hard part of making sentences (and paragraphs, etc.) is the spacing of the letters. Some groups of words just seem naturally suited to each other. Others are less so. One strategy I've been using is to make the words separately to get an idea of what they look like. Then (because the size of the words can change to make them fit together) I will sketch the rough shapes out to try to get them all to work together.

I also attempted to cut out the shapes, but since you can't really change their shape or slightly move the letters around to make them fit together, it wasn't very helpful.

I have also tried using the computer (PowerPoint, if you must know, as my Photoshop skills are nil) to make the shapes. They are much cleaner, but lack the rough, artistic look of the hand-drawn characters. This one says "Gary." I hope :)

So here are my first to basic attempts at writing full sentences in Gallifreyan. This says "Give me liberty or give me death" (more or less).

And this one says "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first, invent the universe." Also more or less.

I highly recommend learning it. The alphabet/code is an easy learn and there are lots of resources online (http://timeturners.wikidot.com/circular-gallifreyan). And it looks cool. At very least, all you Whovians should figure out how to write your name!

This is what's great about summer

Summer is hot sometimes. Less often in the northern part of the country. But it is great. Here are some of my reasons why:

Giant Vegetables

Picnics!

Sunglasses

Thunderstorms!

Butterflies

 Geese, naturally.

 Frogs (especially of the giant, wet, and slimy variety)

Snakes--but only the playful kind

Flowers

Giant house-eating vines with flowers

Bees! and beekeeping, too.

These ones have been in this tree far too long.

Cats, because everybody likes cats

More cat! and a rabbit, and peacocks, all living together but without the eating each other part (we hope)

Deer, of the baby variety

In conclusion, what is great about summer is this: thunderstorms, food, plants, animals, and fun.

Nerd Blog Frog

Nerd Frog loves nerd blogs, so he's starting a Nerd Frog Blog. Our featured nerd blog of the day is Gary's Nerd Blog. He writes things about how to add Adzerk units to blogpot blogs (like mine), how to fix errors in code and things, and how to diagnose issues. He uses words like nodejs, postgres, Greasemonkey, Ubuntu, BIOS, GeSHi, and apc.php. If these words have any meaning to you, you might find Gary's Nerd Blog helpful and/or interesting.

He also uses a lot of screen shots. Like this:

Go visit it at http://garysieling.com/blog/