Then the word alphabet comes from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek writing system.
If we had gotten the word directly from the Phoenicians, we might probably call it alephbeth instead.

Just a couple of nights ago it hit me that the word geometry comes from Geo: Earth and metron: measure.

Etymologies can suddenly snap into focus things that have been right there in front of our eyes all our lives, but never thought to notice.

And why isn’t a train station called a rail port?
Missed opportunity to keep it all tidily labeled similarly, if you ask me.

“Do you, still thirst, for Dwarf blood?”
ARRRRGH!
“Mix with three sticks of butter, three cups of sugar and one cup of salt, heat and stir… voilá… Dwarf Sauce!”

There’s some donkey sauce in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.

The philosopher of choice for mediocre self-entitled pricks with delusions of grandeur everywhere.

Ooh… capsaicin-powered hot take!

For my Art Metal band, Caligula’s Ring.
For my Spanish-language Hip-Hop Reggaeton crew, Los Zánganos Del Rap.

Full disclosure: I’m not a fan of either genre.

Nah, I’m of the view that evolution doesn’t grow upwards, but sudeways. We are at the edge.

If Chins Could Kill

So humans are also the only animal that can hear chin music?

I say we take off and drop the ring from Gandalf’s eagles. It’s the only way to be sure.

Dude trying to get it from first principles!
Which is what I also lean towards. Give it to me step by step and I need to clearly map out each one… then the mind wanders and when I snap back to attention, I’ve lost the plot already, my mathematical surroundings are unclear, disorienting.

Add to this an erratic series of math teachers - some of them good, some of them blah - and this day trigonometry to me is a jumbled mess, but I loved calculus and was pretty good at probability and statistics.

Hold it right there, buddy, what’s the matter, didn’t you read the sign at the entrance of this instance? It clearly says CAT, not CATSssss…

A chronic compulsive content-stealer creature like gallowboob might have encompassed that 15% all by himself.

Back when Australia was still remote and exotic, before Crocodile Dundee even, a lot of people back in the day thought he sang:
“He just smiled and gave me a bit of my sandwich”,
which would have also made for a fantastic lyric in a very silly way.

PANIEK

I thought you were supposed to till across the incline, not down it.

Taco Tuesday Tom

Oil, rubber, steel.

Voyager is the Nokia of space probes: practically obsolete, code written in ancient runes almost nobody can still decipher and read… yet still keeps on ticking.