12-11-08 13:21 - Big Exit
"Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a pyramid buried in the desert and thought to belong to the mother of a pharaoh who ruled more than 4,000 years ago.
It is the country's 118th pyramid to be discovered.
It was found about two months ago in the sand south of Cairo..." [link] - They are still finding pyramids? Maybe this one will have all the alien tech in it.
After forgeting to read them for so long, I have caught up with all of my prefered comics. However, missing the pace of the rapid reading I have slipped back into A Softer World. I was surprised to note that I neglected it since Febuary. An oversight I am glad to remedy.
I like the story of the US losing a Nuclear bomb, however Dinosaur Comics]' take on it made me apprieciate it more. Oh that God.
Galactic Civilisations 2 is a game with a degree of depth and customisation that I respect, however it turns out that my attention span is much shorter than I expected and the only way I have found of completeing a campaign is to nose dive my economy and wait to be conquered.
Last Christmas I was given Twilight Princess, which is a good zelda game, but like all Zelda games, I never play it enough to get past the Goron mountain. The electro-boots are fun, and I keep replaying that bit.
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28-06-06 12:20 - Hair
Yeah, fuck my blog.
On the 20th of May I cut my hair, I then tried to bleach it. The bleach did not take, so not only was it a shitty cut, it was also a shitty colour. A week later on the 27th I re attempted to bleach my hair. It took, and I am happy.
Also on the 20th I was roused from my bed to go into work and do the early morning news, as it was a Saturday it meant only a little work, and so I wasn't much annoyed as it gave me an excuse to not use my one free day in the garden.
On the 27th I had a voice chat with Fartin Mowler, you can imagine the fun. he repeatedly called me a loser. I suspect it was to try and rouse me out of my nicely rutted life, but it wouldn't work as I am the king of selfpity when thre mood strikes me. He also mocked my accent.
I last visited the I-Mockery Forums on Monday March 27th 2006 at 0746, I went back Friday May 26th 2006 at 1546. Avoiding the abundance of crappy threads, it was just like old times. I mean the old times before I joined. I also posted on the 666th page of Ye Olde Postcount Fight Thread.
I watched Serenity on Monday May 29th 2006 at 0400ish. I was at work because there was a chance the early morning news reader would be sick, he wasn't and despite being very tired, I didn't want to g back home for bed. Serenity is an astoundingly good film.
Went into the city. Saw the Doctor, and he gave me clean bill of health. Hospitals are full of old people, but the staff are all younger than me. I bought some new pants. No more holes in the knees. I went into the supermarket nearest the Uni. All the young people were ugly. Went into the supermarket down in the ghetto. All the poor people were ugly. Went up to the posh supermarket. All the middle-class people were ugly.
Written some shitty things for Esuohlim.com, which I do want you to read and then tell me you liked them, but I'll know that you're lying.
Yeah, fuck my blog.
On the 20th of May I cut my hair, I then tried to bleach it. The bleach did not take, so not only was it a shitty cut, it was also a shitty colour. A week later on the 27th I re attempted to bleach my hair. It took, and I am happy.
Also on the 20th I was roused from my bed to go into work and do the early morning news, as it was a Saturday it meant only a little work, and so I wasn't much annoyed as it gave me an excuse to not use my one free day in the garden.
On the 27th I had a voice chat with Fartin Mowler, you can imagine the fun. he repeatedly called me a loser. I suspect it was to try and rouse me out of my nicely rutted life, but it wouldn't work as I am the king of selfpity when thre mood strikes me. He also mocked my accent.
I last visited the I-Mockery Forums on Monday March 27th 2006 at 0746, I went back Friday May 26th 2006 at 1546. Avoiding the abundance of crappy threads, it was just like old times. I mean the old times before I joined. I also posted on the 666th page of Ye Olde Postcount Fight Thread.
I watched Serenity on Monday May 29th 2006 at 0400ish. I was at work because there was a chance the early morning news reader would be sick, he wasn't and despite being very tired, I didn't want to g back home for bed. Serenity is an astoundingly good film.
Went into the city. Saw the Doctor, and he gave me clean bill of health. Hospitals are full of old people, but the staff are all younger than me. I bought some new pants. No more holes in the knees. I went into the supermarket nearest the Uni. All the young people were ugly. Went into the supermarket down in the ghetto. All the poor people were ugly. Went up to the posh supermarket. All the middle-class people were ugly.
Written some shitty things for Esuohlim.com, which I do want you to read and then tell me you liked them, but I'll know that you're lying.
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Sheela Na Gig
May Seventh MMVI 13:21 - Sheela Na Gig
In my last entry I mentioned a few movies. I thought I might just mention that those were the first few days of watching movies. Possibly the first week. I had three more weeks of movies. I watched them too, & after that possible week I was annoyed that I just couldn't get anymore things to say out of me. Well, I could, but it would have been mostly repetition. By the third week I was out of that too. For the fourth week I merely tallied cocks vs. nipples. It was unfairly slanted, but whenever there were three of one on screen, the other got a bonus point. Something that can be said for the sex scenes is that they gave me a chance to get a snack & drink from the kitchen. If they had unscrambled a porn channel for the month, I would have seen less nudity.
On the Second of April the deck table parasol got caught by a strong gust of wind, & was carried onto the roof of my house. Unthinkingly I climbed up to retrieve it, which I did. Unfortunately I was struck by a touch of vertigo as I went to climb down, and was thus trapped until the local vicar could arrive with his stepladder, I having broken and lost my ladder on a previous occasion. I took some pictures on the roof to pass the time. Also, I sang.
On Good Friday, the 14th of April 2006, at 16:08 I was walking through the kitchen when I absentmindedly knocked my right hand on the back of a chair that had no right to be in the kitchen. I was carrying a mug in that hand at the time and it fell on the floor & the handle was smashed off. The mug was my mug, my favourite mug. I had had and used the mug for years. The mug had a picture of an owl on it. I was fond of that mug. I am annoyed.
One of the people I like best in the world is Seth Pace. Recently while working on my book (it's not going well, so please ask about it) I thought it would be funny to have a bit of latin randomly thrown in, and the phrase I wanted was 'the pants that I am wearing are blue'. I immediately fired off an email to Seth asking him. A few days passed and I assumed he found the idea too stupid to reply to. I really could see that viewpoint as valid, but then a week later I was taken by surprise. Not only had Seth replied, he had replied with the funniest email I have recieved in years.
Subject: RE: Hey Buddy!
You should know better than to send a message to hotmail if you want a response. My msn account still exists solely because teenage girls from Canada, Britain, and Flanders keep friending me, forgetting about it and not knowing who I am when I ask why they friended me, and I just want to know WHY. WHAT DOES IT MEAN???
I don't know the answer to your question off-hand. It's been almost a week, so you probably don't care any longer. I'll try to answer it.
Bracae ab me gestatur/geretur caeruleae sunt.
I don't know what the difference is between those two words seperated by the slash, but they both seem to mean "to wear (clothing)" so maybe one's classical and the other medieval. To me, the first one sounds more medieval. If you don't like the sound of that, the only real condition I see in necessary syntax for that statement is that "ab me" shouldn't be seperated. If a different word order than the above strikes your fancy, knock yourself out.
The above literally translates to "The pants, worn by me, are blue", which to my knowledge is the best representation of what a Roman or a very well-educated churchman would actually say to express the idea that the pants he's wearing are blue. In medieval Latin I belive it would be acceptable to say "Caeruleae sunt bracas quas gesto/gereo", which gets rid of the passive voice and the ablative case.
So, if you're going to the Vatican and want to talk about blue pants, the latter would be fine and maybe more natural for those who obviously learned Latin through a language with fewer abstract and archaic constructs. However, if you're going back in time to tell Cicero or Plautus or whoever the hell else that "the pants you are wearing are blue" and not that "the pants being worn by you are blue", they would surely catch your drift but make very nasty attacks on your person for talking like an Etruscan William Shatner.
I hope that helps!
-Seth
May Seventh.
In my last entry I mentioned a few movies. I thought I might just mention that those were the first few days of watching movies. Possibly the first week. I had three more weeks of movies. I watched them too, & after that possible week I was annoyed that I just couldn't get anymore things to say out of me. Well, I could, but it would have been mostly repetition. By the third week I was out of that too. For the fourth week I merely tallied cocks vs. nipples. It was unfairly slanted, but whenever there were three of one on screen, the other got a bonus point. Something that can be said for the sex scenes is that they gave me a chance to get a snack & drink from the kitchen. If they had unscrambled a porn channel for the month, I would have seen less nudity.
On the Second of April the deck table parasol got caught by a strong gust of wind, & was carried onto the roof of my house. Unthinkingly I climbed up to retrieve it, which I did. Unfortunately I was struck by a touch of vertigo as I went to climb down, and was thus trapped until the local vicar could arrive with his stepladder, I having broken and lost my ladder on a previous occasion. I took some pictures on the roof to pass the time. Also, I sang.
On Good Friday, the 14th of April 2006, at 16:08 I was walking through the kitchen when I absentmindedly knocked my right hand on the back of a chair that had no right to be in the kitchen. I was carrying a mug in that hand at the time and it fell on the floor & the handle was smashed off. The mug was my mug, my favourite mug. I had had and used the mug for years. The mug had a picture of an owl on it. I was fond of that mug. I am annoyed.
One of the people I like best in the world is Seth Pace. Recently while working on my book (it's not going well, so please ask about it) I thought it would be funny to have a bit of latin randomly thrown in, and the phrase I wanted was 'the pants that I am wearing are blue'. I immediately fired off an email to Seth asking him. A few days passed and I assumed he found the idea too stupid to reply to. I really could see that viewpoint as valid, but then a week later I was taken by surprise. Not only had Seth replied, he had replied with the funniest email I have recieved in years.
Subject: RE: Hey Buddy!
You should know better than to send a message to hotmail if you want a response. My msn account still exists solely because teenage girls from Canada, Britain, and Flanders keep friending me, forgetting about it and not knowing who I am when I ask why they friended me, and I just want to know WHY. WHAT DOES IT MEAN???
I don't know the answer to your question off-hand. It's been almost a week, so you probably don't care any longer. I'll try to answer it.
Bracae ab me gestatur/geretur caeruleae sunt.
I don't know what the difference is between those two words seperated by the slash, but they both seem to mean "to wear (clothing)" so maybe one's classical and the other medieval. To me, the first one sounds more medieval. If you don't like the sound of that, the only real condition I see in necessary syntax for that statement is that "ab me" shouldn't be seperated. If a different word order than the above strikes your fancy, knock yourself out.
The above literally translates to "The pants, worn by me, are blue", which to my knowledge is the best representation of what a Roman or a very well-educated churchman would actually say to express the idea that the pants he's wearing are blue. In medieval Latin I belive it would be acceptable to say "Caeruleae sunt bracas quas gesto/gereo", which gets rid of the passive voice and the ablative case.
So, if you're going to the Vatican and want to talk about blue pants, the latter would be fine and maybe more natural for those who obviously learned Latin through a language with fewer abstract and archaic constructs. However, if you're going back in time to tell Cicero or Plautus or whoever the hell else that "the pants you are wearing are blue" and not that "the pants being worn by you are blue", they would surely catch your drift but make very nasty attacks on your person for talking like an Etruscan William Shatner.
I hope that helps!
-Seth
May Seventh.
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