Kawasaki is ready for certificate

Hi Friend!

The main question to clarify - are you sure you want Kawasaki to be your name on the certificate?

Hi Laurence!

Thanks a lot for clarification! And for your patience and persistence. And for your kind words :)

Your certificate is ready and attached to your profile!

Former professional classical musician

Ha-ha, I'll tell this to my wife - she is violin teacher and we sometimes discuss how far or close musician and technical specialists are in their talents and thinking-style :)

Riding my motorcycle long distance (including across the US and back.)

Ha-ha, as a joke (partially) I suggest you ride to Russia some day. Our roads are quite inverior in quality to US "interstates" but they are really long. And what a sights: forest, forest, forest, forest! :)))

(well, not only forest, but really it may take much more time to find scenic views)

Спасибо и хорошего дня!

Yep, that's pretty correct though hopefully you won't try learn Russian - not sure it is worthwhile and though I'm sure it is far not the most difficult, but noun cases and genders for verbs and adjectives may easily make one feel miserable.

Note there are other curious languages in or around here! Caucasian languages are popular in certain regions - and some of them have immense number of cases (e.g. Avar, Tabasaran?), Tatar or Kazakh may give keys to many Turkic languages while learning modern Ukrainian allows to understand (less or more) both Russian and Polish :) ok, this is also a bit joking - I just a bit curious about languages myself, but never had enough patience to learn any 3-rd language yet. Last time tried Chinese from coursera...

By the way, if you need any help translating to Spanish, I would love to volunteer.

Thanks for your kind offer! See, this works in such manner - if you feel you want to translate some problem - you may create translation in PR in github (or via gists, I can find instruction if you haven't found it first) and notify me to check and merge it. Some simpler problems already have translations - and we understand that very advanced tasks are often solved by a bit more advanced users who has sufficient understanding of English - so supposedly there is no need to translate all. Thus, please, judge yourself, please, if anything is worth translating :)

The Caucasian languages are interesting. Georgian fascinates me, with its three alphabets and impossible grammar.

I am currently also studying Mandarin, and Portuguese. I think Portuguese is about as close to Spanish as Byelorusian is to Russian. They are very similar.

I did study Russian for a while. The complexity was similar to classical Greek, which I also studied.

But I stopped because I had more interest in Mandarin....mostly because more people speek it in my area.

Currently, I am being considered for an orgainzation called the "Iron-Butt Association". The minimum criterion to join is to document a trip of 1000 miles....1600 km....in under 24 hours on the motorcycle. I completed this and am awaiting to see if it is approved.

Some of the members have ridden around the world, including, of course, through Russia. To me, the prospect of 10,000 km through forests sounds like heaven......but, of course, if I had a break-down, I would not be very happy. :-) And it can get very very cold there, too. Best to do it in summer. I need to be better prepared for Russian than Napoleon was.... ;-)

I will look into translating some of the articles, and using github. I shy away from github because I don't want to show my amateur code to the world....it feels like showing my dirty laundry. lol

Not to far from my home is a small city with many immigrants from Oaxaca, Mexico. Many of them speak a Zapotec language. I know very little about this small group of languages, except that they are very exotic.....indigenous American languages.

Ah well, I feel like I could to talk with you all day. It seems we share many interests. But you must be very busy.

If you ever want to chat, just let me know. Also, I am on a language exchange app called Tandem. I talk with people all over the world every day. If you get the app and enter that you are interested in conversing in English, you may find me. As Larry D, of course.

Again, thanks for everything you do. Things are getting bad here in the US with the epidemic. I understand that they are better in Russia, but there is still a lot of illness. My hope is that you and your family stay healthy.

Best wishes!

Larry Devlin