Alas, your instantaneous translator is on the blink. "Bismarck" is easily pronounceable in almost every language on Earth.

Been tweaking. Hopefully nothing broken...

Rhymes with "smudge" in my head, but YMMV. On this line, there aren't any truly unpronounceables among us, a la Drewsxpa, at present are there?

[rab] You'll ruin your teeth.

[Tuj] But what would you know.

Mornin' all. Comment ally voos?

Trebonski, as my Dad would have said. Bilingual but French wasn't one of 'em.

Our taiko group played for a friend's wedding yesterday. At the party afterwards, that is, not the ceremony itself. The bride is one of the group, so she was playing with us, with a shoulder-slung drum over her full white wedding rig. Later today I expect to be very happy when the restoration of my Mac from backup completes (touch wood). The disc failed last weekend and I've been poking at the Internet through a variety of letterboxes since. Or maybe I shall be happy in a couple of days. It has just announced, "About 37 hours and 2 minutes remaining."

Happiness is restored, along with the backup.

37 hours? How much were you recovering?

About 1.75 TB. I got the machine back from Apple yesterday with a new disc, the current OS, and nothing else. I booted it, it saw my Time Capsule, and in just a few clicks and 18 hours, it's back to normal. It reported a transfer rate varying between 8 and 25 MB/second, I'm not sure why it would be that low. My broadband is faster. Maybe I should have remembered to plug in the Ethernet before it started over Wifi.