Features/Diversions
From Sedes Draconis
I haven't been putting up too much recently. The reasons are two fold.
First, I'm back at university these days, and not having a terribly exciting quarter. My current academic obligations are taking alot of time, but not offering to terribly much in the way of applicable insights. By which of course I mean applicable to Sedes. What else would insights be applicable to?
The other reason is I've got a whole slew of new diversions while I'm online, where before I might just go over Sedes obsessively.
They include:
- The Zompist Bulletin Board, a community of world-builders and linguists, where I'm posting prolifically, and having great fun. Zompist is of course the originator of the Culture Test format (e.g. my Gnomish Culture Test, writer of the world-famous Language Construction Kit, creator of the World of Almea, and many other cool things. Every once in a while it will hit me: "Wow. I'm talking to Zompist. Regularily. Even telling him things he didn't know once in a while. Wow. Zompist."
- LimeWire. I've been hunting out obscure files, mostly to add to my iTunes library. It's just the right combination of effort and reward to keep me at for hours.
- I've just started playing with All Consuming. It's a great, developing site for community-based book meta-data. I've set up a Read List powered by them. I intend to spend some serious time adding what I've read to it sometime. Probably working from my Alex Lit rating list (which includes nearly 600 stories I've marked as read). Why duplicate this information? Because Alex Lit has benn getting less cool, and I think All Consuming will get more cool. Hopefully in the process I'll put down a good set of comments about books, too; to do my part to create said community-based meta-data.
All this said, never fear, work on Sedes Draconis never ceases. I've got a good chunk of the Garaban Language worked out, and with luck a grammar will be coming soon. A goblin sketch is part done, and as soon as Amelia and I get time, we can finish it, then I'll put it up. Soon following that will probably be expanded descriptions of goblins, orcs, and, with luck, kobolds.
Update: I never ended up spending all that much time with All Consuming, though it is useful. On the other hand, starting 2003.04, I've been spending a fair amount practicing my Contact Juggling
