OOC -- In Praise Of The Skunk

[sythyry]

A few weeks ago beetiger offered up some of my archives of old pottery to good homes. melskunk was one of the people who volunteered to help us out.

We did ask people to give us something in exchange. It didn't have to be much -- leto_lapin sent us some well-used and well-loved family recipes, and we were muchly pleased -- but some people offered some seriously creative works.

melskunk's is the first of those to arrive entirely. Half of it was some delightful little furry footprint and face fridge magnets, so we can teach projectmothra to track various of our friends in that fandom.

And we would have been muchly pleased with that alone.

But the other half was original poetry in ... you can't really call it facing English and her conlang (whose name I have lost) because it's also computer calligraphy and the polychrome conlang text swirls around the linear black English. It's art and poetry at once. It's amazing and original and wonderful.

Now that we have her address (return address on the package) we even can send the pottery!

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[(Anonymous)]

do you have any extra codes? if so...maybe I could have it? It would be very helpful! Thanks!

Email- AlyssaAnn03@aol.com

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Rot13 (a->n, b->o, c->p, etc.) works for all the things I need encoded -- it's very very easy to break, and everyone on the net as of ten years ago knows it, but it takes enough work so that you can hide spoilers or dirtybits behind it and people can't read them by mistake.

If you want something fairly cryptographically secure ... um ... it's been a long time since my brief time working with Ron Rivest (the "R" of "RSA cryptosystems"), but as I understand, RSA is still considered pretty much unbreakable if done right. Look under "public-key cryptosystems". PGP, Pretty Good Privacy, is a free implementation.

If you want something that there's absolutely no chance that the CIA can break ... um ... why are you chatting up random LiveJournal users, even ones with PhD's in computer science from schools with good crypto programs? Would you really trust me if I said that, say, "There's nobody on the planet who can break DES encryption?" I could! I could even find a report from 1968 to cite! It was probably true then!


Hope this helps!

- Bard

Conlangs for all :)

[melskunk.livejournal.com]

I am thrilled you recieved it before Anthrocon and that you've enjoyed it :) I enjoyed making the poem for you, it was a challenge that I haven't had in a long time. I was worried it would be a disapointment to a skilled creatrix like yourself :)
I didn't send my address because I realised I was moving. I was going to email it after I moved and then realised (a second time!) that my parents are generally used to recieving my mail, so that's their address.
I have realised (a third time!) that I didn't include the poem key with the poem, so here it is:
Tell the telling teller who tell the tales so true
True the tales of blueish gold satisfactory hue
Hues that speak of pinkly joy or determedly light green
Green like life that's full of strife but conquers every scene
Scenes like plays that fill the days the teller's stories spring
Spring the season that the telling teller's truth told brings


Speech to speachdid speachone, speachdid truespeachsong
Speachsongtrue of huebluegold, huesatisfactory hue
Speachsonghue pinkjoy speak or lightgreendetermination
Lifelightgreen conquers strifefull (like a) playscene
Sceneplay fill trueday in which speachone speachsong born
Born (like a) borntime born from speachone speachsongtrue



a=ah, e=eh, ee=ee, i=eye, o=oh, oo=oo

Ebiro di ebiro-lag ebiro-tom ebiro-lag orota-ebiro-hohom
Ebiro-hohom-orota gokoo rhida-galodim, rhida-galodim-orooda rhida
Ebiro-hohom-rhida meekali-rhib ebir wot rhooteg-agootam-nagaram
Nam-rhooteg kibanagoomi hirhag-lami sit timid-oorhog
Oorhog-timid lami orota-nekedab gokoo ebiro-lag ebiro-hohom sosa
Sosa sit sosa-negek sosa midad ebiro-lag ebiro-hohom-orota

And for curious others, if it's no trouble:



*Whew!*

Re: Conlangs for all :)

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

very impressive!

(And, should we use the address on the package, or will you email us the right address when you get it?)

*hugs*
Bard

Re: Conlangs for all :)

[melskunk.livejournal.com]

Using that address is fine. Or if you're feeling nervious, I can send you our new address. That'll be in a few weeks, though.

Re: Conlangs for all :)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Jiminy Christmas.

That is extremely cool.