Learning Spanish is a fun endeavor, in part because I’ve discovered such items as the following while enjoying its namesake. This term, which means “beer” in Spanish, originally came from the medieval French word cervoise. For its part, the French term origianlly stemmed from the Gallo-Roman (that is, ancient French-Latin dialect) word cerevisia, which was [...]
‘…a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it. A reporter once asked the German theologian Dorothee Soelle: “How would you explain to a child what happiness is?” “I wouldn’t explain it,” she answered. “I’d toss him a ball and let him play.” Professional soccer does everything [...]
In my last Goodreads micro-review, I stated that “there’s a lengthy excerpt which pertains to literature which I should type in here, but I may save that for a blog entry.” I’ll go for half here and cite the better paragraph, truncated at that: In dealing with the [classical] liberal social philosophy there is a [...]
And by that I don’t mean the passage of health care legislation (I refuse to call any change “reform” since it is an abuse of the word, whatever the “reform” is, left or right). For that I mean to wax about dovetails, since this blog is purportedly about writing, reading, thoughts in between. And he [...]
Nor better pills to make you smarter, nor… whatever ridiculous “news” headline that Yahoo! concocts, but rather because literature and such are fun too, two new Goodreads reviews, or micro-reviews/impressions: Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature by L. D. Reynolds My rating: 3 of 5 stars One may [...]
Not something a paranoiac would say, eh. I have crossed the thresh-hold (yes, hyphens are important) of social networking where once I preferred to grouse in the alley. One could well reverse this, too. But hell, since I spend so much time reading and researching online, why the hell not? (He gets excited by fire/damnation [...]
On Wednesdays there is a farmer’s market on what is called the Village Green. It was very pleasant: sunny, not too hot. Booths were awash with goods. Too much (?) pizza was eaten; brown sugar shortbread cookies, too. And I paid with cash. It was not hard to pay with cash. Not because I am [...]
Hey, I’m complaining again — what’s new? And so why blog? I jest, except to say that upgrading software is perhaps akin to putting on a new roof: it needs to be done, but is it fun? Not really. And so, portmaster -avt on the command line iterates nicely through the entire list of installed [...]
Knot? Too much time spent trying to find a simple thumbnail generator in PHP, so setting aside the prettiness of auto-generated thumbnails, at least pictures are online. Some, for now. Vision Mtn refers to a recent trip to eastern Washington. Thanks to Francesca for the hospitality! And déjà vu all over again, once more. Paring [...]
Let’s lighten it up a bit (though not really, because I was full for hours, ha). 3 eggs, scrambled — paprika, olive oil, black pepper, sea salt. 4 strips bacon — Hempler’s, of course. Chocolate pudding — yes, chocolate pudding. Bike to Chuckanut area. Hike seven miles. Bike home. Ah, yes.