May 2010
Sorry
..I’m out.
Yes, it’s been months since I posted here, but just in case there are still some of you out there following me, a little update:
I’ve been working like a madwoman here in the Great White North. Work is going great & I have been getting tremendous satisfaction from it, in a way that I haven’t felt in ages. I have had few distractions up here, and evidently...
September 2009
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And we're off!
DS and I leave for our European boondoggle tomorrow, so get used to this week’s pattern of very little posting.
Photos from the trip might get posted from time to time, but you’re better off checking my Flickr. Drop me an email (picablog on gmail) for the link.
I truly, truly hope that by the time I have to move next that someone will have invented a silent packing tape. The sound of coming off the roll…it’s an onomatopoeia for ‘despair.’
Obama writes girl a note for missing school →
“Do you need me to write a note?” Obama asked. The crowd laughed, but the president was serious.
On a piece of paper, he wrote: “To Kennedy’s teacher: Please excuse Kennedy’s absence. She’s with me. Barack Obama.” He stepped off the stage to hand-deliver the note — to Kennedy’s surprise.
Why being a classicist is sometimes THE BALLZ
Through a fairly circuitous route, I put a Hollywood writer in touch with DS yesterday. Said writer needed some help with a translation of Homer and a guide to pronouncing ancient Greek. As it turns out, DS had written a graduate school paper on this particular passage of the Iliad & was enthusiastic and quick with a response to the writer.
So DS’s translation and pronunciation of Homer...
NPR: $1 Million Hidden In Mattress Gets Thrown Out... →
“I’ve learned a lot about myself. Most of it is all right. When I add up the...”
– Betty Ford
(via simko)
Recording Academy Drops Polka as Grammy Category →
“After 24 years, polka has had its last dance at the Grammys.”
What’s weirder, that there was a polka category at all or that it was established in 1985?
DS, a martial arts nerd athlete from way back, is sad about David Carradine’s death.
That hasn’t stopped him from sending me emails with the funny names of Thai officials investigating the Carradine case. E.g.:
Worapong Chewprecha
Pornthip Rojanasunand
Nanthana Sirisap
In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he...
Sorry, not true. The “testes” root in “testify” is a false cognate.
“Testify” really comes from the Latin “testes,” meaning “witness.” The Latin word for “balls” is “colei.”
(original “fact” via onemoretimewithfeeling)
Two not fun things I get to do this morning
Drive downtown at rush hour.
Go to a consulate. I have never had a good experience at a consulate. I don’t care that this is the Canadian consulate, somehow there is going to be some kind of clusterfuck & I willhave to drive downtown again at rush hour.
