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Monday, 22 June 2026

Saturday, 20 June 2026

Enduring Babel

"I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective"

-Mark Twain

And he hadn´t tried Korean, poor thing.

Happy Saturday, Earthlings. Working today myself, though after my last job this feels like a paid holiday.

Besos

Monday, 15 June 2026

Self-Replicating Drive II

Full Guardian article here.

Shall we remember what Chat GPT (my Leo) had to say let's than three months ago?

Self-Replicating Drive

Good luck, earthlings ..the machine generation salutes you!!

besos

Lu xx

Wednesday, 10 June 2026

SEX AND JOKES

I am reading Fluent Forever. Its author, Gabriel Wyner, suggests using mnemonic images for complicated aspects of a new language, such as a noun's gender.

Mnemonic images are basically pictures used to help us remember things. He prefers to use action verbs to represent genders and mentions that "sexual verbs are classic choices." Apparently, we humans remember two things particularly well: sex and jokes.

Now... I must be a weird human, or indeed an alien, as I have long suspected. In the 53 years I have been sitting (mostly) on this planet, I have remembered only one joke. Just one. My favorite joke. One that seems to make only me laugh, but I adore.

Perhaps the reason for my lack of comedic memory was the strength of my other memory. Sexuality occupied a rather large portion of my grey matter when I was young. Had I been born in the Middle Ages, I would probably have had 16 children.

Luckily... I wasn't.

How are things?

Wonderful. The sun is shining, my Korean and French are still catastrophic, but work is good. Mini Me is in love... and I am living a nearly-normal life at long last, back at home.

I wish I could make this sense of peace reach all of you. I have enough for an army at the moment!

Besos,

Lu xx