Stormantic's Tarot of the X-Men...

Stormantic is a Tarot card reader and X-Men fan who writes a bog about the X-Men, focussing on Storm, his favourite character. And Emma Frost, who seems to be a close second. Since his interests and my interests are parallel, I have been reading his blog with interest.

He has devised a system of reading the X-Men playing card deck as Tarot cards, which I think is a wonderful idea. I wanted to make notes on his comments, so I'm doing that ( here. )

30 Days of Torchwood: Day 18: Character Your Relate to the Most...

The 30 Days of Torchwood meme:

( Day 18: Character you relate to the most. )

Wikis of languages...

I read Wikipedia all the time to look up information, but it's a while since I've just browsed it to see how it's working. I decided today to again do something I was doing last year before I was interrupted by injury and surgery - the practice of reading a Wikipedia page each day in another language. I was learning a lot, and enjoying it. Mostly I was reading pages in French, occasionally Esperanto or Italian. The challenge was only partly in the languages, but even more in the subjects covered - some of it challenging even in English. Lots of dictionary use was happening. It was good for me, I'm sure.

And I'm thinking of learning Spanish, because I have hopes of visiting Spain in a few years.

Today I noticed that:

1. There's a Wiki in Furlan! Many years ago, when I was in the Italo-Canadese society, I had many friends who spoke Furlan, a beautiful, musical, incomprehensible dialect of Italian which I loved even though it baffled me. What fun, to see it again.
   
   
2. I didn't know there was a Simple English Wkipedia. ( Brilliant idea! )
   
   
   (Oh dear, I'm geeking out here, aren't I?)