Summer is here!

Saluton amikoj!
Summer has been quite nice so far. Because of lack of school in the morning, I've gotten to go hike outside and such. The photographs shown here were taken in Peters Canyon Regional Park. Some people don't like my editing *cough*, but I think overall they came out pretty well.

As far as school stuff goes, I have not started on summer homework like some nerds have, but as I did with the Pre-Calculus thing, I think I'll post my study plan up for people that like that sort of stuff (and for myself because this is a convenient place to look it up.) If anyone followed my Pre-Calculus study guide thing, I hope you got better results than me (84%! What is this?)

Does anyone else have to take SAT classes this summer? (I assume around 1/3 of all people, and 4/5 of Asian people do :D ) I am going to be in Elite Boot camp (Northwood)... So maybe I'll see someone I know.

The Fall of QWERTY
I stumbled upon this video on YouTube and read the description. Among the things mentioned in it were "...Other gaining standards are: the Dvorak keyboard, SI, international sign language and braille, and Linux." A few of these things were of great interest to me.

Dvorak keyboard: (Don't ask me how to say the name) Basically this is a keyboard layout designed for maximum efficiency, that was unfortunately developed later than QWERTY, which was originally designed to prevent jams in mechanical typewriters. If I get the time, I wish to learn how to use this keyboard layout because I'll probably be typing till the end of time...

Linux: So I installed opensuse 11.0. Unfortunately since it was released for non-beta people really recently (try yesterday or the day before), the update servers and such were really busy, so I didn't get to fix up my distro yet.

Esperanto
Also included in the description of the above linked YouTube video is esperanto. "...Esperanto is also an emerging standard that steadily gains in popularity, while every year several national languages die off (due to their complexity, lack of convenience etc.)..."
What exactly is esperanto? It is a constructed international auxillary language. In normal-people jargon, that means it is a language made up by someone(s) rather than coming into existence and changing as people change (Not that new words and such aren't added, however). What are its advantages? It is very consistent. You will find no irregulars and easy to follow patterns. If you want to begin learning I suggest going here or here. I'm learning at a very casual pace if you want to try and chat.

I'll probably go post something later today as I'm going to the LACPS (Los Angeles Carnivorous Plant Society) meeting... so I'll probably have some good pictures.