Random Rambling

tenpo suno pini la telo lete li kama tan sewi. tenpo suno pini mi mute li lon e ma tomo Piladelpia. mi mute li ken ala tawa tomo mi. mi mute li lape en ma tomo Piladelpia.

tenpo ni la mi mute li tawa tomo mi.

telo li kama

tenpo ni la telo pi kon suli li kama tan suli. taso kon li lon e seli mute. mi wile mute e tenpo pi kon seli. tenpo ni la mi ken musi kepeken sijelo mi. mi wile musi kepeken sijelo mi. mi ala e jan lili.

pali

mi pali e mute. tenpo esun pini la ijo pali li kama lili. tenpo esun pini li pona: ijo pali li kama e ijo mute e ijo lili. tenpo suno ni la mi kama jo e ijo pali mute.

soweli ike

soweli li kama ike e tomo mi. soweli li jo e noka ike. ken la ona li wan kepeken ilo utala. mi sona ala. taso mi wile e ni: soweli li ante tan ike tawa pona.

Hurricane Electric

I have an IPv6 tunnel with Hurricane Electric. They provide tunneling services for 6 to 4 tunneling conversion. I like their services, but it is constrained into one of my computers due to some silly restrictions from some web providers. Too bad, because they're fast and own their infrastructure.

Mr. Alien

monsuto is new (or being accepted) word in Toki Pona that refers to:

monsuto

M fear, mysterious, awe

Some of these may refer to a pilin fear can be translated as pilin ike or feeling sick, but this can also be interpreted as having a stomach virus if you feel sick. So I guess that you need a term to explain, well, the unexplained.

The term for a ghost in TP is kon pi jan moli or the spirit of a dead person. But going through the roster of common monster, we can see the case for monsuto.

werewolf

jan monsuto pi lon soweli (mysterious man that becomes a critter).

vampire

jan moli monsuto pi moku pi telo loje (mysterious corpse that eats red liquid).

alien, outer space

jan monsuto pi lon ala ma ni (mysterious man that does not exist in this earth)

zombie

jan moli monsuto pi tawa kin (dead man mysterious that still goes, or yes, The walking dead. :) ) I am not sure if the monsuto is needed being that jan moli pi tawa kin should be enough to send the message.

the blob

ko monsuto pi pakala tomo (mysterious gel that destroys cities)

Godzilla

akesi suli pi pakala tomo (big lizzard that destroys cities, monsuto would be also optional. Change akesi to pipi and you get monthra)

the mummy

jan moli pi tawa kin pi selo lon (dead guy that still goes with a skin made of clothes. Now this is a mouthful :) )

Well, you get the picture.

There is certainly a case as a transitive verb in addition as a modifier (adverb/adjective), for example:

mi monsuto e sina

I scare you (i. e. boo... aah!)

ona li monsuto pilin e mi ale

The thing gave us all a feeling of dread.

and noun

a pona! monsuto li tawa!

Mystery is afoot!

Yes, I think that there is a case for this word in the Toki Pona vocabulary.

I will be in meetings this whole week being that it's our annual department Let's figure out what we're doing next meeting. It is also performance review period.

I'm just glad that this is a yearly affair.

tenpo suno ni la mi mute li lon e tomo pi pali kulupu.

tenpo ni pi suno luka tu la mi toki kulupu e tomo pi pali kulupu. tenpo ni li lon sitelen mi pi jan lawa. mi pilin pona la sitelen mi pi jan lawa li lon e tenpo wan pi sike suno.

Nice weather, but next week, winter comes back.

Today is a nice day in New Jersey, relatively mind and breezy. I wish I can take the car out for a spin but I am still on the hook to work on the home office.

Meh

Next week we expect snow and colder temperatures which is expected this time of year. This means that if it does snow, the car will have to stay in the garage for at least a month. Oh, the joys of owning a rear wheel drive car.

pona ala pi tomo pali mi

meli mi li wile e ni: mi pona e tomo pali mi. tempo ni la mi wile lape tan mi lape lili e tempo tawa pini. tempo tawa pini la sijelo mi li pilin e pona ala. tempo ni la sijelo mi li pilin e pona lili.

tempo ni la mi open ala e ale pi ilo sona. ilo sona li open ala tan seme? ona li wile pona li wile tawa pona pi tomo pali.

a...

tempo suno ni la mi tawa e tomo pi lawa kulupu. mi wile jo e lipu nasin pi soweli mi pi mu Mawu. tomo Pikatawa li jo e nasin lawa. soweli ale li o jo e lipu nasin.

tempo sike suno ni la mi jo e sin soweli e nimi ona Peti. soweli Peti li lon e lukin pona. taso soweli Peti li jo e sijelo pakala. soweli Peti li jo e pakala nimi Serepela Ipalasija (SI). soweli li jo e SI la soweli li lawa ala pi sijelo ona. sijelo li tawa sama jan li moku e telo nasa. taso soweli Peti li lon e ike ala. ona li moku li musi sama soweli ale.

tempo mun pini luka la soweli Peti li lon e ma. mi mute li poki awen li pana moku li pana sona pi pilin pona tawa jan. open tempo la ona li olin ala e mi mute. taso tempo ni la soweli Peti li olin mute e mi mute.

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... and the cat had the last laugh

This morning my wife went down to the cattery to check on the cats that are being socialized. The cats are doing fine, thanks, but it seems that the leash and harness that we managed to put on the cat is now gone.

The cat might be laughing to us, poor deluded humans, on its escapist prowess

sike musi pi sijelo musi. pakala!

lawa kulupu ma pi ma Poto Liko li pana e tempo musi tan tempo suno pi wan tu jan sewi sona. tempo suno sike pini la lawa kulupu ma li pana e ilo musi pi kama sona anu ilo musi pi mani mute. tempo suno ni la lawa kulupu ma li pana ilo pi musi sijelo. lawa kulupu ma li wile pona e jan lili sijelo.

tempo musi li lon li pona. ona mute li tawa li jo e ilo pi musi sijelo. ona mute li pilin pona tan tempo musi.

taso jan wan.

jan pali pi sitelen tawa li toki kepeken jan mama meli. jan mama meli li pili pona ala.

jts

ona li pilin pona ala tan seme?

jmm

a... mi awen e tempo mute e tempo mute e tempo mute. jan lili mi pilin ike mute. mi kama e tempo suno kama e lape lili. tempo kama ni la mi kama jo e sike musi pi sijelo tawa jan lili mi. a?! taso wan sike musi pi sijelo?! pakala! tempo musi ni li ike li pakala!

jan pali pi sitelen tawa li tawa sona e nimi pi jan mama meli. ale kulupu li kama sona li pilin pona ala kepeken nimi.

jan Malk Sutelwot li toki sona e tomo Lonpon tan lipu sona Upuntu OS pi ilo toki. lipu sona li kepeken sama lipu sona tan Anproip. lipu sona Upuntu li pali e ilo sona jo ARM anu ilo sona jo X86. lipu sona Upuntu li jo e lipu sona HTML5. lipu sona HTML5 tawa ijo e nasin tempo lili pi pali sin lipu sona.

lipu sona Upuntu li ken e awen ala tan lipu sona pi ilo toki tawa lipu sona pi supa pali. lipu sona pi supa pali li sitelen ona kepeken supa ilo sona "Dock".

It's the first morning of the New Year

My new year's even was fairly uneventful being perhaps the most interesting thing of the night was a video chat through skype with my family.`[1]` They were doing ok, but amazed that I had long hair and a beard. I usually shave when I go there, but being a 50 degrees difference between Puerto Rico and New Jersey, it's kind of hard to justify having a short hair.

As it is, it was nice to see them and at least share the yearly family toast for the new year.

Textile

Although I use the Org Mode and Markdown as intermediate web language markup regularly, but there are there are systems that use that use textile as its markup language.

Perhaps the most irksome part of it is that it does not play well with fill mode, being this in Emacs or some other editor. This seems to be a fature. I tried with three textile translators with similar results.

Oh well...

There's a script in Emacs that fixes that if I want to incorporate it into the textile minor mode to get it right. :(.

Toki Pona Gone Wrong

I posted my version of Sun Tsu's quote on strategy in toki pona and upon back translation it seems that the message got lost. The reasons were:

• I used the wrong pronoun (ona vs sina).
• The verb lukin did not show as an adjective, wrong verb.

The quote is from Sun Tsu, the art of war.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak

First translation was:

ona lukin e wawa ala la ona li wawa.  ona li lukin wawa la ona li wawa ala.

So, with that, perhaps it would be clearer as follows (or not... :( )

o sitele sina	draw yourself
e wawa ala	strong not
la	if
sina wawa	you strong
o sitele sina	draw yourself
e wawa	strong
la	if
sina wawa ala	you strong not

What can I say... I'm still learning :).

[1] Yes, I should've used SIP in the spirit of Open Protocols and Skies but it's hard to convince my sister.