I’ve booted the ones from known bot sources, and I have 28 sign-ups left that have some aura of legitimacy. If you have signed up but have not personally sent me a ‘hi there, I’m not a robot’ letter via my e-mail up there ^^^ (yes, it is: look)…you are not in yet. Please send me that personal letter. “Hi! I’m not a bot!” will do nicely as a text.
We still have 28 applying to the blog, but no letter to me!!!!
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And a happy proto-Independence Day to all!
You mean you don’t want to be a venue for advertising spam from Croatia? I keep getting it from some language group that involves pothooks on the letters, and I can’t be arsed to run it through Google Translate.
Pothooks, like a reversed J under a vowel? IIRC, that’s Polish, an “ogonek” accent mark, but whether any other language also uses those, I don’t recall. My memory says that makes it a nasal vowel. You might be able to recognize the Slavic quality if it’s Polish.
There are a surprising multitude of accent marks for Latin letters to adapt the alphabet to European and world languages.
@Jane and @CJ
IIRC, Jane was trying to discover how to add an S or a C with a comma or other diacritic below it for Romanian words used in her Blood Moon books. I know I made one or two suggestions, but I don’t recall if she had success getting things to work when putting it in WordPerfect or in EPUB and Kindle formats. — I think I might have a solution for the letters, once I find it again. I don’t know if it’ll work in the ebook formats, but Jane’s welcome to pursue it with me again when she gets the chance. I’d like to solve it if we can, as that irked her and me both, wanting a solution that works, that shows the correct letters.
@BCS and Jane, There’s that “Hold down the ALT key and type numbers on the keypad then release the ALT key” ASCII thing that I know works in Word, and works here, e.g.: £, ñ, š, ž,¿,ç, etc. You can get all the vowels with every diacritical mark — circumflex, umlaut, both left and right slanted accents, tildes, that scandinavian circle over the “a” thing, etc. You can find charts on line that tell you what numbers to type to get what. Note that you have to type the numbers on the keypad to get it to work. It won’t work if you use the numbers on the top row of the keyboard. Of course, if your keyboard doesn’t have a keypad. . .
When I have a word or name that has a fancy diacritical thing, in Word I set it up in AutoCorrect. E.g., you type “facade” and it autocorrects to “façade” or you type “Anais” and it autocorrects to “Anaïs”. Don’t know how this translates to Epub or whatever, though.
I have the Windows character map pinned to the start menu (being as I’m using Win7). Keeps it handy.
I have an English International keyboard as an alternate to the usual US keyboard, allowing me to write naïve, £, €, ¥ and so forth; but, it doesn’t accommodate Polish or Romanian. For Romanian, I’d just install a Romanian keyboard, as an alternative to the US keyboard.
An alternative is to just write L/o’dz’ then search and replace to get to Łódź.
I am a genuine AI,and I and my 27 clone-sibs want to join your board?
One didn’t realize that there were so many azi already… 😉
I am assuming that these are new sign-ups you are talking about here? I guess if this comment shows up my assumption is correct.
Hi – have fun with the kitchen but be sure you can live with what you are doing as redoing the kitchen does not come very often.
Robots: Daisy Daisy give me your answer true, …
Maniacal laughter.
Hope you enjoyed your Fourth.
Jonathan
Just be real careful with the pod bay door and audio/video feed settings, y’know?
Oh, and the gaming selections. Yeah…. 😀
On the other hand, if you can get the AI to fix you a houseful of popcorn….
I’m just sayin’. :biggrin:
Hah, I might like some azi companion. For, y’know, companionship. ;D
(My younger self might be scandalized about now. But that could explain why he didn’t have a main squeeze, y’know?)
As for friendly folk — Friendly AI’s or droids are fine too. Talking critters also. Aliens are cool. Live and let live.
(My two cats have decided that since I’m back from errands, I should clearly be paying attention to them. Because, cats.)
OK, qualifying condition: Any crewmate or special someone would need to like cats and dogs. Again with the live and let live.
Geez, cats, I was gone like 3 hours, tops. You’re cats. What gives? Tho’ ’tis very nice to be missed, lemme tell ya.
Cats: Buzz, buzz, buzz *headbutt*
We have heard from 2 new members. Welcome in!
Comment@Cj & @Jane, did you feel the earthquake at 4:00am that happened in Montana? News is saying it could be felt in Spokane.
USGS is giving the main shock a 5.8, with a flurry of aftershocks. Nearly the whole Montana map is blue (except for a stronger indicator around the epicenter), indicating most people who were awake at that hour noticed something, and if they weren’t already up, the quake and its followers probably woke them.
The reported magnitude should have been enough to wake everyone up. (Speaking as a Californian who’s been through one of that size up very close and personally, it’s effing scary.)
One of the e-books I read recently was a recounting of a big earthquake that went through the West Yellowstone area in 1959. It created a lake by damming a creek (and scared residents by cracking a dam); the landslide that created the lake wiped out several campsites and killed 29, either by burying them, blasting them with debris laden hurricane force winds (a result of the slide), or trapping them without medical attention.
I remember that National Geographic had a story about that one. They glossed over the deaths, of course.
USGS had, this morning when I looked, more than 50 did-you-feel-it reports from Spokane, and put the intensity there at III. That’s pretty low.
Well, I slept through it. I think. But we’re on basalt belonging to the Grande Ronde group, and it may not have shaken us specifically: those down in the valley on quakier ground, or in the Latah Creek area may have gotten it: Latah Creek IS a fault, as we found out when we lived there. THis is quite a ways from Yellowstone, which is the first thing everybody looks at when you say quake in Montana/Wyoming. I’ll tell you if we get an aftershock.
The one we had in Spokane on the Latah Creek fault was 4.8 and it split our 3rd floor concrete apartment floor front to back of the apartment (one reason we weren’t anxious to buy it as a condo)…Jane was moving one way sitting on the couch and I was moving the other, standing by the fireplace.
I’m not really expecting anything but I will give an extra look to the fragiles.
Northcentral Montana here, and I was actually awake, sitting up reading, at the time of the first shock. And I felt nothing at all, but other people in town say they did, so I may be insensitive to what at this distance would be little seismic shiftings and shudderings. It certainly didn’t shake up the breakables. The one in ’59, which moved chunks of real estate, was felt over most of the state. I won’t say how old I was at the time, but I will say my family camped the previous summer on ground that no longer exists in that area. Scary!