the unstoppable geekdom of me

mood: dorky and oh so proud
music: the "it's friday" song
random word: futhark

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so that website that michael nevadomski stumbled upon is pretty damn amazing. for those of you who have seen it yet, it has the alphabets of every language out there (even fake ones like elvish and such from Lord of the Rings). It's so cool! I've spent my entire morning fooling around on it and learning stuff, rather than working.

For example, you might wonder at my random word. well, "futhark" is the name of the germanic rune script used until conquest by anglo-saxons led to a language change (starting around 200 BCE and going until about 300 AD). once the anglo-saxons took over, they threw in a bunch of runes to handle their weird letters and vowels that weren't otherwise being used and made a bunch of runes more simple, so it become a "new language."

but yeah, i've spent the entire morning learning futhark and i have the rune system down and as far as i can tell, you just write left-to-right, put colons between words and spell things out phonetically and that's it. clearly, it has to be more complex than that, but i can't find anything online willing to teach me more, so i'm just gonna play with futhark as is.

this is why you don't give me fun dorky toys like this website (www.omniglot.com). it's just dangerous.

and how does one use differents scripts in the blog? i downloaded a futhark script and leaving random runic messages would clearly be the coolest ever.

oh, and i'm going to budzyna's for the night this afternoon. that should be fun.
love or, should i say:

Laguz-Othala-Uruz-Ehwas (being the runes for L-O-V-E)