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Dialect Maker Down for Good

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Well, it seems my antiquated Perl code is just a little too much for my new webhost’s servers to handle. My web implementation of the Zompist Sound Change Applier almost killed their server this past weekend.  It uses a CPAN library that someone created, based on the Zompist code, and it’s getting a little “long [...]

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Happy Birthday, Scrabble!

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Today is the birthday of Alfred M. Butts, the man who invented the game Scrabble. Butts was born on this day in 1899, in Poughkeepsie, New York. He trademarked the game in 1949, but his game didn’t sell very well. Only a few thousand copies of the game were sold, until 1950s when the president [...]

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Reactivated

Monday, April 7, 2008

For those few, brave souls that still read this blog, be of good cheer, for you will be the first to know that my infamous conlang scripts are reactivated.  Yes, that’s right, all those good, tasty scripts for generating languages on the fly are active once again. My webhost has changed hands several times and [...]

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Happy Birthday, Count!

Thursday, November 8, 2007

According to the Writer’s Almanac, today is Bram Stoker’s birthday. If you’ve been living under a cultural rock for the past hundred years or so, you might not know that Bram Stoker wrote the now infamous Dracula. He wrote other books as well, and was quite well known in his own time for his work [...]

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A Slow Death…

Monday, October 1, 2007

You may have noticed this blog dying a slow death. There’s a reason I haven’t been posting much here, besides author birthdays, lately.  Beyond the fact that I’ve been battling cancer, this site has grown in a chaotic way and in directions I did not intend.  What’s more, the name no longer describes what I [...]

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Happy Birthday, ERB!

Saturday, September 1, 2007

Today is Edgar Rice Burroughs’ birthday! ERB, as he is often known by fans, was born in Chicago in 1875. He is probably most famous as the creator of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, which is a series of stories about an English nobleman who was abandoned in the African jungle during infancy and brought [...]

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Happy Birthday, Ms. Rowling!

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Today is J.K. Rowling’s Birthday! If you don’t know who J. K. Rowling is, well, you certainly haven’t been paying attention. She is, in short, the creator of Harry Potter and crew. As a divorced, single mother struggling to scrape by on public assistance, aka “the Dole”, in the UK, she wrote Harry Potter and [...]

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Three in One

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Three birthdays today, all brought to you by way of the Writer’s Almanac. Today is the birthday of Carl Jung, who was born in Kesswil, Switzerland in 1875. His father was a pastor who was losing his faith. This so shocked Jung as a boy that he decided to become a scientist instead of a [...]

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