As a Gentoo user, I value the ability to compile and install things from source. Yet I don’t want the messiness of a completely manual “distribution” such as LFS. Yet I feel like I’m missing out of a big chunk of the GNU/Linux experience when I have to tell people that I’ve only ever used Gentoo. Also, if one wants to make his package available from multiple distributions, he may find more success if he is able to facilitate creation of the binary packages for these other distributions.

Thus, I have committed sys-apps/pacman into Sunrise. I still have to get permission to commit a few fixes (hopefully by tomorrow). Also, archlinux’s take on mirrorselect, reflector, has been committed but awaits review. When these things get through, the following may actually be worth something:

I have attempted to write a guide to setting up an archlinux chroot on Gentoo. Don’t actually try the guide until about a week from now, when my stuff clears review, of course ;-). However, in the meantime, I would gladly accept:

• Technical criticisms
• (if you are tommy[d], please ignore the following) Alerts about the misuse of the apostrophe or general grammatical problems
• Documentation storage format suggestions — I suppose it would be a good exercise for me to learn docbook someday. Should I start now?

Recently, however, I have wondered about the validity of the phrase “kind of”:

<ohnobinki>     and he hangs out on #bangladesh kind've
<ohnobinki>     oh, btw
<zimjimmy>      hm
<ohnobinki>     I've discovered that the whole time I've been using kindeof when I should've used kind've
<zimjimmy>      ...?
<zimjimmy>      why would there be an e
<zimjimmy>      ?
<ohnobinki>     kindoef is wrong, kind've is correct
<ohnobinki>     idk
<ohnobinki>     I wondered that myself
<zimjimmy>      i never noticed you do that
<zimjimmy>      oh
<zimjimmy>      you mean kind of?
<ohnobinki>     no
<ohnobinki>     kind've=>kind have
<ohnobinki>     I kind have like pizza
<ohnobinki>     right?
<zimjimmy>      that... makes no sense
<ohnobinki>     kind of like pizza makes less sense
<zimjimmy>      um
<zimjimmy>      well
<zimjimmy>      i think it's an idiom
<ohnobinki>     maybe kind've liked pizza=> I kind have liked pizza b4
<ohnobinki>     ugh
<HonestBot>      get over it 
<ohnobinki>     only idiots use idiom
<ohnobinki>     *idioms :-)
<ohnobinki>     honestbot: no!

—2009/05/13 on #protofusion

Which reminds me—I used to spell “kind of” as “kindeof”. I thought “kind of” should be merged into one word by the agency that controls English as the W3C controls XHTML.

Of course, I was wrong to say that “kind’ve” is the correct notation for “kind of”. I recently realized that “have” doesn’t fit into sentences containing “kind of”. If such a sentence exists, it would probably change its meaning; “have” can not act as a drop-in replacement for “of” in the phrase “kind of”:

<ohnobinki> I think I'm wrong about ``kind've''
<normaldotcom> lol
<normaldotcom> waddayamena
<normaldotcom> ?
<ohnobinki> well
<ohnobinki> when people say ``it is kind of green'', they mean ``It is a kind of green''
<ohnobinki> i.e., ``it is greenish'' or ``a modified green'', which would be a ``type of green''
<normaldotcom> lol yeah
<ohnobinki> and ``have'' doesn't fit into there are all
<ohnobinki> so ``kind've''=>``kind have'' doesn't work
<ohnobinki> wp article :-DC
<ohnobinki> ?
<normaldotcom> yeah
<normaldotcom> lol sure

—2009/08/29 on #protofusion