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2004-11-19 tea (utc+1)
�1. A light dawns!
Lat. "Hierosolymis" = Eng. "Jerusalem", as we kn�, ergo:
Lat. "Hi[wovel]" = Eng. "J[wovel]" and so this chap "Hieronymous", the
celebrated translator of the bible, is not a rival to Saint Jerome,
but the self-same Jezza masquerading as a Roman.
�2. Thanks, Mr Richie!
Ritchie's Fabulae
Faciles: an easy read�r in the Latin tongue.
Haec n�rrantur � po�t�s d� Perse�. Perseus f�lius erat Iovis, m�xim�
de�rum; avus �ius Acrisius appell�b�tur.
I can't quite read it, but it's close. So very close! (Of all
the things I did at school, Latin was that from which I gained the
least and forgot soonest, and that's saying something.)
�3.
Tore Janson's A
Natural History of Latin, which has prompted this Latinisme
has now been Englished. I'm just starting out on Part II: the
post-Roman years, which are given as much weight as the classical era
and quite right too: Latin owes it's priveleged position in the eyes
of nutters like Mr Ritchie to its role as the lingua franca of
the Roman church, and as any fule kno the rise of the church
paralleled the decline of empire.
Western Christendom ho!
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2004-11-19 11:45
It is quite a good
book although there are no prinsesses in it. And not very many
pictures, really, considering that it's about geometry. (For some
values of "about". And "geometry".)
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2004-11-19 09:19
Like a drum my heart was beating
And your kiss was sweet as wine
But the joys of love are fleeting
For Pierrot and Columbine
[The Carnival is Over, The Seekers]
�ver? What do you mean �ver?
Sn�kaoset �ver - nu kommer kylan
The sn�kaos is �ver - now comes the freeze
Weather, isn't it?
Meanwhile, Tanja Tomic of V�rnamo has just been crowned
Yoorpean pizza champion, according to Aftonbladet and not a single
other Yoorpean news source I can find.
Vad sa domarna om din vinnarpizza?
- En av dem friade till mig. Men jag sa att jag inte kan gifta mig med
n�gon som bakar s�mre pizzor �n jag.
What did the judges say about your winning pizza?
One of them proposed to me. But I said I could never marry someone
who makes worse pizza than I.
Wimmins, isn't it?
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2004-11-18 14:46
Persons from Troms�, in the very Arctic north of Norway, join in the
sn�kaos fun by pointing out or
remarking that sn� ("sn�") doesn't cause much in the way of kaos
up there, and they can't see why it should do so down in the Oosh.
Martin Schanche kan ikke forst� hvordan et par centimeter
sn� kan paralysere hovedstaden i vinterlandet Norge.
Martin Schanche can't understand how a couple of centimetres of sn� can paralyse the capital city of a winter land like Norway.
�2. Sn�kaos II
Meanwhile:
I vinter kan sn�kaoset i Stockholm bli v�rre �n n�gonsin.
This winter the sn�kaos in Stockholm could be worse than EVAR!
�3. Prinsessbonusstory!
They're kronprinsess krazy upside-down there in Straya!
Den danske kronprinsesse v�kker stor opsigt ved at optr�de p� forsiden
af modemagasinet Vogue. Bladet er forl�ngst udsolgt p� Tasmanien.
The Danish kronprinsess has attracted a lot of attention by posing for
the front page of the fashion magazine Vogue. The 'bladet sold out a
long time ago in Tasmania.
Also:
Alle eksperter er enige om, at hun er sprunget ud som supermodel.
All experts are unanimous that she is sprung out as a supermodel,
boing boing.
We ourselves are especially unanimous!
�4. Special guest langwidge!
Today our special guest langwidge is Dutchy-Double-Dutch:
Ierland is het beste land om te wonen. Dat blijkt uit een onderzoek
dat het Britse blad The Economist heeft gehouden.
Ireland is the best land to live in. That blijk out a survey taht the
British 'bladet The Economist has gehouden.
It's easier than Tsky-Tsk and certainly easier than Wiking, is this
Dutchy-Double-Dutch. And they have prinsesses...
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2004-11-18 11:27
The Economiste, a Republican magazine, has announced the results of
its quality of life comparison, with Ireland top:
Ireland was followed by Switzerland, Norway and Luxembourg. All but
one of the top 10 were European countries.
The USA languished in 13th, while Britain was 29th - the lowest of the
pre-expansion EU nations.
Norway, Sweden, �sland and Denmark all make the top 10 (where's
Finland?) along with the Switzyland, Straya, Spain, Luxembourgh and
Italy.
Notwithstanding methodological scruples and the Economiste's
recent colonocephalique tendencies, this does not exactly dampen my
ardour to be in a country or land other than this one.
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2004-11-18 mornin' (utc)
Norway:
Sn�en kom - kaos som vanlig
The sn� came - kaos, as usual
Sweden:
Trafikkaos efter sn�ov�der
Traffic kaos after sn� storm
Splendid, splendid stuff.
Bonus prinsess link:
CROWN Princess Mary of Denmark and [some bloke] will make their first
official visit to Australia next March to celebrate the 200th birthday
of Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen.
Straya, Knudella? Watch out for the diddly snikes and spidahs!
[Thanks to the Annas K and Louise for linkages!]
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2004-11-17 tea (utc)
�1. On identity
Q: What's the difference between a duck?
A: One of its legs is both the same.
[Trad.]
�2. Slacking, slightly slack
Remember that Corinne Maier book on slacking at work that caused a
fuss ages and ages and ages ago?
VG has just
got to the story. Way to slack, VG!
Boken kommer p� engelsk i b�de Storbritannia og USA til
v�ren. Tyskland, Spania, Brasil, Japan og S�r-Korea er andre markeder
som venter.
- Vi har skrevet kontrakt i Sverige og Finland. I Danmark er vi i
avslutningsfasen, men Norge har jeg ikke h�rt noe fra - enn�, sier
Thomas McKeon, som har ansvaret for rettigheter hos Michalon-
forlaget.
The books is coming out in both the UK and the USA in the Spring.
Germany, Spain, Brasil, Japan and South Korea versions are in the
pipeline.
"We have signed contracts for Sweden and Finland. In Danmark we're in
the final stages, but in Norway we haven't heard from anyone - yet",
says Thomas McKeon, whose responsible for foreign rights at Michalon.
Way to slack, Norwegish publishing "industry"! Don't worry, Mr McKeon, they'll
get round to it any year now...
�3. And there was much rejoicing!
- Will there be sn� this winter, [Swedish] Met Office, as there was
last year, and the year before, and the year before that?
- There will, my child,
there surely will.
- Will there be kaos? In particular, will there be kaos on the roads
in the town and also the roads in the country, as there was last year
and the year before and the year before that?
- It is certainly to be expected.
- What is the nature of the cause of this kaos which the sn� will
cause this year as it did last year and the year before that on the
roads in town and also the roads in the country?
- Why, my child, it is sn�, of course, but it is also the element of
surprise.
SMHI varnar: Sn�kaos p� v�g
Met Office warning: Sn�kaos is on the way
Oh, hurra!
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2004-11-17 sigh (utc)
I went to court!
The Council Tax persons are very useless, and fond of expressing their
uselessness with Summonses. And I can assure you that if you summon a
von Bladet, a von Bladet is what you're going to get.
So I toddled down to the Magistrates Lair Court and announced myself to the Gatekeeper of Justice, but when The List was consulted, no von Bladet was to be found on it. (Perhaps because I have
tried every means known to mankind of contacting the Council Tax
persons to sort things out, but perhaps not.)
Persons not on The List, as it turns out, should go up to Court 5 on
the fifth floor and tell an usher (they're the ones in the robes, you
can't miss them) that they're not on The List, and await further
instructions.
The further instructions I got were to go and queue up to talk to the persons
from the council (they're the ones in the suits, you can't miss
them). And the person from the Council says, you should go round to
the Council's own offices, and he or she is very sorry that they don't
have the resources to answer phones, emails or letters, but they do
answer the door.
So I went to the Council's own offices, and they did, and we're all
friends again now. I can't help thinking it would have been easier to
just answer the sodding phone in the first place and skip the bit with
the ushers ect, but I am after all not privvy to the boundless wisdom
of beaurocracies hem hem.
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2004-11-17 09:19
Isn't genderteori just a nominalist position within the teori of
natural kinds?
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2004-11-16 15:41
Mais
oui, Jacques, it is tr�s � la mode:
C'est ce qui ressort d'une �tude de la soci�t� Millward Brown pour la
European Interactive Advertising Association. La France (avec 49 %
d'internautes qui se connectent tous les jours) est le troisi�me pays
europ�en en terme d'utilisation quotidienne d'Internet, derri�re la
Belgique et le Danemark.
That's what's come out of a study by the company Millward Brown for
the Association Europ�enne pour la Publicit� Interactive.
France (with 49% of internauts connecting daily) is third in Europe in
terms of daily Interweb usage, behind Belgium and Danmark.
Belgium, man, Belgium.
But if you want an online listnings guide to gai Paris you have
a want destined to remain unsatisfied: they were pulled so as not to
endanger their treeware stablemates, which are not sold here in
Blighty. Want to be a great world city, Paris? Sor' i' ah'!
�2. Shoppning!
Over at Information, the Danish Aftonbladet, they're playing catch-up:
HEIDEGGER, hvis Et brev om humanismen, udkom i sidste uge,
[...]
[MARTIN "HEIGH-HO!"] HEIDEGGER, whose Lettre on Humanisme came
out last week [...]
For large values of week, surely? Anyway, it's out of print in the
Frenchy-French and Saxo.dk has it not; will
you sell me one ibooks.dk?
Vi leverer indtil videre kun til Danmark.
No. Go 'way, silly Engleesh. We don't care for your sort 'round
here.
�3. Ecumenicalisme, capitaliste style
A nice Muslim
dolly:
This Eid al-Fitr there is a new must-have toy on the Muslim child's
wish list - the Razanne doll. With her pre-teen figure and aura of
humility she doesn't, at first glance, stand out in the gaudy world of
children's toys. But she has captured the hearts of Muslim girls
across the US, Canada, Singapore and Germany. And now the doll, whose
name translates as "shyness and modesty", is available in the UK
(You can tell, isn't it, that this is the Grauniad from the bland
remark that it is a Muslim "child" that will wish for such a
something. No other English 'bladet, I feel confident, would neglect
to gender that without thinking once.)
�3. Design�r Prinsess!
It is Vickan!
And she come with a range of tasteful accessories, for sure. (She
even speak!
- Jag tycker det �r v�ldigt sp�nnande, s�ger kronprinsessan
Victoria till Expressen.
"I think it is very exciting," said Vickan to Expressen.
Product also comes supplied with "How do you do?" and "I declare this
something open!")
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2004-11-16 samwidge (utc)
It's always silly season in archeology, which must be a great comfort,
and a bloke (an Amurrcan, who'da thunkit?) is claiming to have found
the Lost City Of Atlantis:
The team spent six days scanning the Mediterranean sea bed between
Cyprus and Syria using sonar technology. They believe they found
evidence of massive, manmade structures beneath the ocean floor,
including two straight, 2-km (1.25 mile) long walls on a hill.
Call me old-fashioned, but I'm reserving judgement until they swim
down there and dig up some evidence of human inhabitation. At the
moment, persons, what you have is an intriguingly shaped rock
formation. Extraodinary claims require slightly more extraordinary
evidence than that, is it not?
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2004-11-16 09:29
In philosophy class, the role of audience member is compatible
with asking questions, but less so with disagreement.
Luckily, there is a simple algorithm to transform "I disagree because
X" into "But surely X?", and I observe that this is very
much the kind of question I tend to ask.
This, I claim, is dialectical interaction, and by no means
mere heckling.
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2004-11-15 bonus (utc)
Who ate all the pies?
Who ate all the pies?
It's Hungary and Polandland! And they're after our yummy lard!
Increased demand from recently-joined members of the European Union
has led to a shortfall in available pork to turn into lard, retailers
say.
Lard can be used to make mince pies, Christmas pudding and roast
potatoes.
It is, of course, also delicious as a snack in its own right. Mmmm,
lard!
Somerfield said it has already been forced to limit the number of tubs
of lard on sale at each of its stores.
It had advised shoppers to check their local stores when possible to
see if another delivery has come in.
"There has been unprecedented demand from Eastern European countries
such as Poland and Hungary for the cheapest cuts of pork to meet their
demand for sausages, salamis and pies," said a spokeswoman for
Somerfield.
You fat bastards,
You fat bastards,
You ate all the pies!
[Trad.]
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2004-11-15 tea (utc)
Oop North:
Sn�fallet natt til mandag har skapt sv�rt vanskelige kj�reforhold p�
mange veier i Troms.
Sn�fall on Sunday night has shaped serverely hard drivening conditions
on many roads in Troms.
Troms is firmly in the Arctic circle (that circle of Arcticness!) and
it is after all November, so we will forgive their apparent
lack of succumbment just this once, and hope for better things as it
spreads south.
And the new Beaujolais Nouveau (from Beaujolais, hence the name) is
out this weekend. I think it's winter o'clock, me hearties, arrr!
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2004-11-15 12:14
- Contemporary pop music
- Soap operas
- Holywood movies
- Soap operas
- Sport
Unfortunately, the first four (4) deficits were shared among our team,
otherwise we might have improved on third place.
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2004-11-15 morning (utc+1)
They say: "Freud makes no testable claims; and besides, they're false;
and besides we already knew all that."
I feel I want to say: "Tell me about your mother."
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