Last week of School

Even though I'm not remotly Christian. I'm digging this four day weekend we're having. I'm able to catch up on homework. I'd like to finish everything before Wednesday. That way I can start and finish my final lab report before the weekend.

I've been riding my fixed bike that I built up more and more. A couple times I lost control of the pedals, which must have looked silly. I just enjoy having that much more control of the bike, also it makes it a lot easier to clean. On Tuesday I'm going down to the Bicycle Cafe to get a 16t or maybe 18t single cog for the freewheel side.

Cycling East

At the end of the school semester I'm taking off on my bike on a 6500 km Journey. Were your intrepid explorer will scale mountains ride across prairie fields, and hopefully have fun doing it... and not die. There was a lawyer died last year in Ontario.

I almost got hit crossing the street the other day. I saw this car come and he was pretty far from the intersection, and i started to cross, since the walking guy came on. By the time I got to the middle of the road he was still bombing around the corner.

I ordered a rear wheel with a flip flop hub on it and a crank set. I got it from IRO Cycle since I've heard good things from them on the internet. I can't wait till it comes in, next week maybe.

Vim Blogger Plugin

I found this great plug-in for Vim to post to Pleasant Cemetery. I found it at Vim Plugin It's quite useful. I haven't installed a plug-in for Vim before, but it was pretty easy. I had to make the ~/.vim directory as it suggested in the post. Untar it and create file-type.vim file with a .blogger file-type.

A Secwepemc Course -- Part II

I spent the last few days at home working on A Secwepemc Course. It's about half transcribed. I only ended up sending it out to a couple people. I'll probably just end up doing it all myself. I think I can easily do one lesson a day.


I've been learning a few things every day. Secwepemctsin is a rich and wondeful language, that I wish was promoted more in and around Kamloops, by schools, the government, and every other thing in the world.


I've been using vim to edit the LaTeX file and it's proving to be quite useful. If I was using any other program it would take forever I really like the VISUAL BLOCK environment so useful.

A good Day

I rode my bike to school today. I left at 9:00 and got there at 9:25. The bike ride was beautiful, it's nice going up West St. Paul in the morning. If it weren't for all the cars I see below on the Bridge, it would be a beautiful view. Who am I kidding it's still beautiful.



I'm going to have to start leaving earlier to school so I can start swimming. They still haven't posted the information for the 2007 Kids-To-Camp Mini-Triatholon, but I'm sure it's at the end of April. That gives me plenty of time to work on my stroke.

A Secwepemc Course -- Part I

I've been transcribing "A Shuswap Course" into the computer so that I'll have a PDF of it. I'll then be sending it out to all those who wants some. If you want a copy... for free.



If you know me you may know that I'm use Open Source software. The development model that sprung up can be used in preserving languages. The way people work in the open source is by breaking up a large task and distributing it. So that's what I want to do with this project if you want a copy. you can e-mail me.



I also wanted to mention about the name of this blog here. I always found Pleasant Cemetery to be an interesting title. It's the name of the cemetery by my house. The more I thought about it the more I liked it. It follows my philosophy of enjoying death. Death is a natural thing. People see birth as natural, but somehow deaht is usually seen as not. I've always liked the saying. Today is a good day to die. I'm trying to live that more and more. The more I think that way the happier I feel.



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LaTeX Presentation

I gave a presentation on the typesetting system LaTeX to my class. I went way over time. I went right to the 1024 and class is supposed to end at 1020. I went over some special characters, some commands and some environements that people might use.

The biggest questions came from how commands were implemented. How to format. One thing I didn't get across was the concept of the packages. I think, everyone will be alright. They got the basic idea of using commands and the idea of the \section and creating equations.

I could have cut it down a bit more so now I know for later. Well it's one of the few presentations that I've given. Especially one that is meant to be interactive. I guess, you could say that it was the first time that I taught a lecture. It was fun and I think I could do it again.