JLPT

昨日、JLPT3級をテストした。よい点を取ると思う。お父さんがいつも「なんで日本に行って、日本の会社で働かない?したくなければ、なんで日本語を習いたい?」と言ってる。僕は言語が好きで、日本の文化が好きだから。人生にたくさん言語を習いたい。あんまり日本の会社で働きたくないけど。日本の会社はやくざみたい。やだよ。

Yesterday, I took the level 3 JLPT (Japanese Language proficiency Test). I think I did very well. My father always says “Why don’t you want to go to Japan and work for a Japanese company? If you don’t want to do that, why do you want to learn Japanese?” It’s because I like languages and Japanese culture. I want to learn many languages in my lifetime. But I don’t want to work for a Japanese company. Japanese companies are scarcely different from the Yakuza in their vertical structure. Ick.

Type Runes on your computer

This falls squarely in the category of nerdy waste of time, but I just whipped up an anglo-saxon futhoric keymap (for US PC keyboards) for X11/linux. Get it here, save it under “/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc” or the equivalent dir on your box. Then, add “en_futhark Old English Futhark” under the layout section in /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86.lst or the equivalent file blah blah. Windows users, simply d/l and install the right file from here. Note that my keyboard is almost identical to their Runic_AS.