Charlotte’s Web Zone

Ahoy! 🐸

Welcome to my personal web zone!

I don’t really know what to put here yet, so for now I’m just gonna use this place for storing miscellaneous documents and toys and things. Most stuff is in English, but some of it (such as my blog) is also randomly going to be in German.

This web zone was achieved with state‐of‐the‐art HTML5 and CSS3 technology.

About me

My CS teacher once took a point off my grade because he had to scroll down to see the entirety of my project’s landing page, so now I’m making this shit extra long out of spite.

My name is Charlotte [ʃaʁˈlɔtə] Eiffel [ˈaɪ̯fl̩] Lilith [ˈlɪlɪt] Buff [bʊf], but you can call me Lotte or Lily. Read all about my pronouns here.

I’m the junior member of the Unicode Technical Committee’s Properties & Algorithms working group and also a let’s player somehow – and that’s basically all I do. Well, I suppose I’m also a writer but since I never publish anything I write (on account of never finishing any of it) there isn’t much tangible evidence for that. You’ll have to trust me on that one.

Technically my list of hobbies is quite a bit longer, but I don’t really do stuff like designing flags, inventing writing systems, watching anime or photographing clouds anymore due to brain reasons. Programming still happens from time to time, though I only know Java and JavaScript because my life is a joke. Look, I started out with assembly on a microcontroller. That means I’m the real deal. I literally use Linux.

Other than that I’ve got a bunch of miscellaneous interests at various levels of depth sloshing around in my head. Feel free to talk to me about cartography, science fiction, German voice actors, astronomy, cladistics, Danganronpa, deep‐sea invertebrates, railway infrastructure, rocks, YouTube Poop, and obscure synth music. I also enjoy small metal objects.

Erm, let’s see. What else...

I took Spanish in high school but I was never particularly good at it, nor did I have any real use for it in my private life, so I’ve forgotten pretty much everything by now. Strangely enough it’s much easier for me to pronounce the phoneme /⁠θ/ when I’m speaking Spanish; in English the dental fricatives routinely kick my ass. I also tried learning Japanese once, but let’s not talk about that.

Did you know you can’t see your own eyes darting around? Try it. Stand in front of a mirror and alternate looking at each of your eyes. They’ll be completely static, as if they just instantly snapped to their new position with no in‐between motion. It’s because the eyes and brain briefly stop processing images during movement and then pretend that this gap in perception never happened. I just thought that was interesting.

Writing this “about me” crap is actually really hard.