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[robinturner]

.oiro'ero'i I'm having one of those days wehen there's something bothering me but I can't work out what it is. My wife keeps asking me if I'm stressed out about something and I reply "No!", making it patently obvious that I am. I just can't for the life of me figure out what.

It's true that I've been having problems with fonts - I took someone's advice on a mailing list and reconfigured my X fontserver, and now my default fonts are ugly and I can't get spadmin on OpenOffice to work. Silly me, I thought I'd made a backup of /etc/X11/fs/config, but obviously I didn't, as I can't find it anywhere. But this is the kind of thing that would normally make me think "Hmmm, here's an interesting problem to be solved" rather than "Die, you stupid X-window system!"

Also, I do not want to teach Rousseau tomorrow. The guy was a prime wazzock.

The only time I felt good today was doing hapkido. Threw Elton around and broke the practice board with a palm-strike. .uiro'o

Comments

[asteriskhere.livejournal.com]

It's true that I've been having problems with fonts -

Something about this made me laugh. I think that's what I'll say from now on if people ask me what's wrong. Blame it on fonts.

[solri.livejournal.com]

Solri's four noble truths.

1. Live is suffering.
2. The root of suffering is fonts.
3. The end of bad fonts is the end of suffering.
4. The means to this is the noble eightfold path:

1. Right font family
2. Right vectors
3. Right metrics
4. Right scaling
5. Right kerning
6. Right justification
7. Right ligatures
6. Right anti-aliasing

[solri.livejournal.com]

The Rousseau lesson turned out to be a hoot. We were looking at the point where civilisation, government and other bad things arise, and since there were a lot of free chairs in the classromm, I set up a chair economy, appropriating the lions share of the chairs, duping one-chair students into entering political society in order to keep their chairs secure from others, employing chairless mercenaries, inventing a religion to justify my greater share of chairs and so on.

[johanka.livejournal.com]

Your teaching methods are really impressive, but still... what do you have against Jean-Jacques? He certainly wasn't a fool. :-)

[solri.livejournal.com]

Maybe I've just been teaching him for too long - I find his style rather irritating now (maybe it's better in French). I don't liek his romanticism, his hypothetical anthropology is almost Chomskyan in its disregard for data, and the view of government he puts forward in On Social Contract is a dangerous fiction on a par with Plato (that's why I normally stick to the Discourse on Inequality, where he's almost an anarchist).