He put a lot of work into those alternative titles, and they’re all good! I like how he included his own.

This is the way. Hunt and kill them, but respectfully. If you observe the correct rites, this will both honor the Great Wolf Spirit, but also release their nephew’s soul, which was taken by the wolves.

It’s the circle of liiiiiife

Help! Help! I’m being oppressed!

Hmm.

German, French, English, Japanese (seriously, I never realized how much language I took away from martial arts classes! And in my post about counting, a significant percent of other people did, too), Spanish, Esperanto. I think that’s it - 6.

I can say “blindingly drunk” in Russian, which seems useful. Also, “trust, but verify,” - thanks, Raegan. Two phrases, neither of which are “please or thank you,” but matching the cardinality of your question so I should get a half-point.

Yup. Good plan.

Frankly, the best thing is to get multiple trauma kits and have them at home, in a your cars, and so on. Good ones are not cheap, and the odds I’ll ever need one are slim, so I haven’t made that investment yet. But it’s good to have a plan.

It was a PITA to change the battery in my 2012 Volvo, and I dread the battery change in the 2016 BMW. I can’t imagine doing anything more complex than that.

I love those old engines I see at the state fair, where the fuel is literally in an open pan on the top, sloshing around. They look like something you could put together yourself with enough effort, but the trade-off is efficiency.

I’d be happy with a fully solid-state car. I’m not a mechanic, or mechanically inclined, so I have no romantic attachment to gas guzzlers.

The densities I’m seeing on M-Discs - 100GB, $5 per, a couple years ago - seemed acceptable to me. $50 for a TB? How big is your archive? Mine still fits in a 2TB disk.

Copying files directly would work, but my library is real big and that sounds tedious.

I mean, putting it in an archive isn’t going to make it any smaller. Compression on even lossless compressed images doesn’t often help.

And we’re talking about 100GB discs. Is squeezing that last 10MB out of the disk by splitting an image across two disks worth it?

The metadata is a different matter. I’d have to think about how to handle the sidecar data… but that you could almost keep on a DVD-RW, because there’s no way that’s going to be anywhere near as large as the photos themselves. Is your photo editor DB bigger than 4GB?

I never change the originals. When I tag and edit, that information is kept separate from the source images - so I never have multiple versions of pictures, unless I export them for printing, or something, and those are ephemeral and can be re-exported by the editor with the original and the sidecar. Music, and photos, I always keep the originals isolated from the application.

This is good, though; it’s helping me clarify how I want to archive this stuff. Right now mine is just backed up on multiple disks and once in B2, but I’ve been thinking about how to archive for long term storage.

I think in going to go the M-Disc route, with sidecar data on SSD and backed up to BluRay RW. The trick will be letting DarkTable know that the source images are on different media, but I’m pretty sure I saw an option for that. For sure, we’re not the first people to approach this problem.

The whole static binary thing - I’m going that route with an encrypted share for financial and account info, in case I die, but that’s another topic.

It doesn’t. It’s just “99” a bunch.

It’s so hard without immersion!

Dos (point) nueve?

Shit. I’ll have to add Spanish. Again, except for growing up in California, I have no justification for being able to count to ten, even if I can’t spell the words right.

For 9, just remember 99 Luftballons. It’s literally “nine und ninety”.

Hmnm. Is 2 Swedish? Danish?

What languages are numbers four and five?

Bonus points for Celtic, and using Cryllic characters!

She says that’s the most accurate description she’s ever heard.

I’ve only ever had it as a dish from a “Chinese” restaurant in the mall. They used to make a mush the consistency of mashed sweet potato, and it was very sweet, but eggplant. I could eat buckets of that stuff. I’ve never had it cooked in a way where it wasn’t rendered into a mush.

Mmmmm.

Nice. Surely you could manage Lisp (or Scheme)?

God. Haskell’s monads give me nightmares.

Yeah! I didn’t think about Roman numerals. Those have to count, although I don’t know the Italian words for the numbers.

Who am I to judge?

That’s fascinating! I mean, there are yakuza, so it’s not like someone telling you they’re a ninja. Although, there are probably technically ninja, too… but it anyone was going to tell you they were a gangster, it’d probably be an ex-gangster who wasn’t in hiding.

Anyway, cool story.

We learned “hai” in Aikido. I don’t remember hearing “osu” used. All my Japanese phrases are counting and related to training, but some are generally useful. When to use “arigato” vs “domi arigato”, vs “domo arigato gozaimashita” (escalations in politeness); “onegaishimas”. I doubt, learning it Nth-hand removed from an actual Japanese speaker, that my pronunciation is at all comprehensible. And I’ve forgotten so much :-(

Immersion is so important. Three years of French in college, and I could never make myself understood when I visited.