Škrba mailed, said he and ajVar can't find my SF stories, my website got somewhat lost and they don't know where is it now.
Neighbor, Ivar and I have somewhat overbarked* you (blame yourself - if you're peeking at neighbor's, so can we scratch our cLayboartds with your likeness and opus), and I got lost in the adress of that guide through America of yours. Toss it then to ajVar to see, may he get his dose of sweets (:
And I did stroll around... ie it once was on the Jahu (yahoo), and then when they revoked FTP access to Geocities, I moved it to my providur's, but that that won't stay long, because I'm about to quit Rtlink (earthlink) and switch to Verizon - they cover Virginia Beach. So the address is, for the while being, http://home.earthlink.net/~sGradlj/ and after 20th june we'll see. I may just open one at DotIzi's (doteasy), just like I already did for my maam („I married a dot com“), and then to register some silly domain (sGradlj.org sounds serious, eh?).
How well the domestic translation for „trial and error“ sits here - „method of trial and blowjob“ (metoda pokušaja i popušaja - pušiti is to smoke, but 'popušio' - had a smoke - implies a blowjob given, involuntarily)
You mentioned, if I'm not mistaken, of an attempt to push the term back into english, guess it was in that hospital in Houston, but that ended with the „see em'dux“ episode and got forgotten. Remind us, if it hadn't evaporated.
Got me right there... here's my message to boss yesterday:
But the others exist inside the EXE, which I just discovered by trial and error (or "metod pokušaja i popušaja" - mark this for a later explanation, need to make sure Jeannie is present, she collects these stories) [found written elsewhere that I also had to explain Grumf for her]
And last night I was hauling some monster files from the Njeb (v. juski), and got snuggled up into that book of yours again. I got as far as footnotes this time (:. Is there anything linear or you mean to leave it so in the cyberskelter for good?
You mean Ajthat? The "th" is to be pronounced with both "t" and "h" audible. That's where I'm straightpunching the anglophone tin ears, who them.
The suffix (more often infix, because two or three more may piggyback behind it) -hat- or -het- in hungarian means a possible action. "Dolgoztam" is "I worked"; "dolgozhattam" is "I could have worked". "Segíthettem valamivel" is "may I help with something"; and when chopped it's: segít - helps (in dictionaries third person singular present is used as a verb's base form, as they have no love for infinitives), -het- - can, -em - first person singular; vala- prefix for indefinite pronouns (somewhere, something, somehow etc; with se- (še) to negate, for nobody, nothing, never); -vel instrumental suffix.
And ajt- is roughly from our „ajde“ (let's [go]) :).
Ad one, I have no nerve left to enforce a linear narative flow of the dramatic plot of the fabula of the story, and then to untangle it - and avoid tropes at the same time. And the tropes have multiplied, ihay, just search for „movie cliches“ to see how many of them are there.
So this will remain loose loaded, something to dig through rather than read sequentially. And I think I'll repack it back into fox. I started writing it into menu.dbf back in 1992, at the time when that table (then called base) got a memo field for text, from which I then recursively extracted the manual, with chapters numbered 1.1, 1.2 - traces of that are obvious**. And then I moved it to Word (guess 2.0 then), then to html, then messed with it, inserted footnotes etc etc... I think it's time to revoke that initial tree structure and give it a real fuzzy structure, with few collections of links to related articles one group would be preparations for departure, other the side articles, third the emissaries' notes, fourth the linear segment with the buccaneers... and in the end one group with geographic and sociological articles - with some articles probably appearing in various places. Plus the list of keywords and automatic insertion of links, just like I did in the Customs of Aborigines.
But I just don't feel like. I spend a dozen hours a day at them tkeyboards, of which maybe an hour and a half playing solitaire and just fucking around, and the rest is work. The site is in near final push phase, Gary is now keen to do the replication (was against before), so his daughter may help too... which I had almost finished two months ago but a few bugs remained and then he rushed another thing ahead of this and neglected it. The oldster, btw, maintains these data hemself, there's some 20000 records in the main events table, plus appearances of partakers (poster artist, bands, location, lights, producer) and thenposter itself (plus variants - ticket, flyer, postcard...) and then articles... Huge work, and he churns it all by himself, using the few forms I wrote for him.
If you're in the mood for one hewge image (about 1100x990) to see what's the main form like... Two aged rockers met and let their fancies fly. After so many years of medicine, I'm finally programming roknroll. I have a special class, YButton (yes, yellow button :)
And about the end of 2000, when I almost got a different job, because he asked about the moonscape in the end around Cueblo:
The cliffs are at about 60-75 degrees. Utah is more like it, but I didn't get there... though it was close once, I even signed a letter of intention, despite the disgust. Two reasons: I'd have to move to Salt Lake City, among the mor(m)ons, and I'd work for the last and lowest scum on the earthly ball, the telemurketeers. The guys who keep calling on the phone trying to sell whatever. The trick is in the queue theory, they go for the average length of conversation against the average availability of operaters against average time which goes between the first ring, pick up and the moment when the recipient hangs up because he hears nothing. Then they program the contraption to call the next number before there's a free operater, eyeballing a solid probability that within the interval one of operators will finish and be ready for the next call. Optimization - how to bother the maximal number of victims with minimal number of staff.
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* lajati - to bark, olajavati - keep barking about - is not exactly gossip, but cool one's mouth with talk about someone absent; may be bad talk but not necessarily so, specially in this context
** um, this is something I forgot, and it seems that that idea, to write hypertext right away and not to belatedly convert it from regular, appeared much earlier, maybe even back in the time when I wrote Engar leaves, to have structure akin to help for the Vaha, and then this, and in the end, zod and Byo.
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