From caa343746efece01ca48ee2fd46f61f1ec1ff66e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ngô Ngọc Đức Huy Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 11:27:40 +0700 Subject: Add misc section --- content/misc.md | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 72 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/misc.md (limited to 'content') diff --git a/content/misc.md b/content/misc.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..396cc5a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/misc.md @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +--- +title: Miscellanea +language: en +ref: misc +translationKey: misc +disable_feed: true +--- + +Here are some miscellanous things I do. + +## Conlangs + +Conlang stands for *constructed language*. Many people created +conlangs for hobby or as linguistic experiments. + +I was inspired by the conlangs in Inheritance Cycle and The Lord of +the Rings, as well as others like Esperanto, Dothraki, Toki Pona, et al and +conlang from time to time as a hobby. None of my conlangs reached its +maturity, though, mainly due to loss of copies and lack of time. + +Currently, the only available conlang I have is [Hàäsdáïga](/conlang), though +I'm halting on it due to lack of time. + +## Books + +I'm not the bookworm I used to be, reading mostly mainstream books. Some books +I read and liked: + +- Dế Mèn phiêu lưu kí, a famous children book in Vietnamese about an + arrogant cricket who learned humility and altruism during his journey. +- The adventures of Valya and Karik, a Russian children book (my copy + was a Vietnamese translation) about the adventures of shrunken children in + which they learn about small animals around them. +- Sans famille, a story about a child who had to leave his family for + poverty, though now that I think about it, it sounds like children + trafficking and child labor. +- Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian tragedy that is often mistaken as + criticism of socialism, while the actual object is authoritanism and mass + surveillance. +- The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the well-known fantasy + franchise +- Inheritance Cycle, often labeled as rip-off Star Wars by haters +- Gulliver's Travels, a book that's supposed to be satire but I didn't + know enough to understand these deep meanings. +- Le petit prince, a novella with a childish theme but discuss many + aspects of life in a lighthearted way. + +Books I'm reading: + +- [XKCD what if](what-if) +- [Ellana][ellana] (Le Pacte des MarchOmbres series) (French) +- The Necromancer (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel + series) +- A Storm of Swords(A Song of Ice and Fire series) + +[what-if]: https://store.xkcd.com/pages/if-you-re-looking-for-the-what-if-book +[ellana]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24210815W/Le_Pacte_des_MarchOmbres_-_Ellana + +## Comics + +Reading comics is my pastime. I follow several webcomics, some of which you +may have heard of: + +- [xkcd](https://xkcd.com): nerd stuff +- [SMBC](https://smbc-comics.com): more nerd stuff, and usually less concise +- [Oglaf](https://www.oglaf.com/): silly and occasionally NSFW comics +- [Dinosaur comics](https://qwantz.com/): a 5-panel comics with only dialogues + changing + +I also enjoy drawing every now and then, not that I want to be an artist or I +draw well. I just find scribbling something fun. I recently decided to post +[my scribbles](/comics/) on this website. -- cgit 1.4.1