On the seastead site, we provide a tarball of the paper for download. A friend joked that he downloaded and unpacked it, ran ./configure and make, but the seastead didn't build :).

Anna made a really nice splint on Sunday to immobilize my injured hand. Its healing slowly but the splint helps a lot, I still think it will be at least a week and perhaps a few before I can type as many hours a day as usual. I'm going nuts here with frustration, my one-handed typing is just too slow and I'm getting fed up with it. I feel like screaming. It reminds me of when I had to do boring homework as a kid, or sit still, I'd feel this burning sensation in my chest, like I couldn't breathe. Maybe I should go jog or something.

I bought a speech-to-text program and a special mic at smileycynic's suggestion, we'll see if technology can compensate for my human weakness. The software (iListen), uses statistical language models to predict a set of possible next words given the context, and use what it hears to choose between them. So it needs to know how I use language based on a text sample. I fed it all my expat journals, (minus the abstracts and such not written by me), and it found a zillion new words, of course (can you believe their dictionary doesn't have counter-intuitive or cryptoanarchy?). We'll see if that helps.

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