Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Man, #firefox crashes on launch every time, and #thunderbird doesn't launch at all (`thunderbird &` just hangs on "Using `nsImapService.cpp`", then segfaults when I Ctrl+C after 24 hours...).

I have no idea what happened here and I don't feel like I have time to mess around with it too much right now. Very disappointing.

Also if someone has a better version of this please let me know I am not interested in maintaining any kind of shell code.

Any #bash experts out there have an idea why this function isn't working well with `ps`? If I pipe `df -h` into it, it works fine. If I redirect the out put from `ps -aux` to a file, then `cat` that file into it, it works. When I pipe `ps -aux` directly into it, I only get the header.

https://github.com/pganssle/dotfiles/pull/2/files

The Japanese version of Jeopardy! is basically exactly as I expected (though I didn't think they would have more than 3 contestants)

(Note: I am watching a different episode than the one I linked)

They seem a little looser with the rules, too. At one point there is a question about Batman where one contestant answers, "Poison Ivy" and the host is like, "No we want the actress" and the guy says, "Uma Thurman" and gets it right.

Later on no one buzzes in on one of the questions and after the host is ready to move on one guy tries to hit the buzzer and the host is like, "Oh hey you want to answer?" And the guy gives a response.

In the late 90s there was a Mexican version of Jeopardy!, and for some reason they decided to add dancing girls to it: https://youtu.be/P0DUhx0avLw?si=9-eF21sIIsSz68eF

I did not expect them to dance for quite so long at the beginning there...

Another good bit of grammar from Esperanto, the preposition [je](https://blogs.transparent.com/esperanto/je-the-esperanto-wildcard-preposition/).

These are just two of the affixes, by the way. I really liked the whole system of them, it makes it pretty easy to quickly build a big vocabulary, and it's very expressive: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Esperanto/Appendix/Table_of_affixes

-ul = person characterized by (juna = young, junulo = a youth)
-ej = place characterized by (lerni = to learn, lernejo = school)
-ilo = instrument (skribi = write, skribilo = writing implement)

They can also be used by themselves, like:

iĝi = to become
ulo = dude, chap
ilo = tool

One thing I really like about #Esperanto is the infix -iĝ- which refers to becoming, it basically makes words intransitive, like:

So ruĝa = red, ruĝiĝi = to blush
naski = to give birth, naskiĝi = to be born
edzi = to marry, edziĝi = to get married

There is a similar (maybe annoyingly so) infix for "to make/cause", -ig-, which makes them transitive:

morti = to die, mortigi = to kill
riĉa = rich, riĉigi = to become rich, riĉigi = to enrich

Those and the question marker "ĉu" are features I often wish I had in other languages.

We are far too informal these days, which is why I'm taking a bold stand against the rampant use of Nicholasnames.

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