Yay! The new reading chair finally arrived!
- Sw. kujon “coward” is cognate with Sp. cojon “testicle”. Both go back to Lat. coleus “leather sack”. In the Swedish case the cowardly sense comes by way of a word for eunuch.
- I never did understand what exe2bin did.
- Wife: ”After I’ve been out running I always feel so good-looking!” Me: ”You mean running improves the accuracy of your eyesight and your powers of objective observation?”
- Rossi, the founder of the French ski manufacturer Rossignol, was the son of a gnome and a troll and did much to improve tolerance of gnolls in Alpine sports.
- Medieval Norse Greenlanders used the penis bone, os baculum, of the walrus as an axe haft.
- In the latest of my many one-man language crusades, I have declared war on the expression Eng. “even if” Sw. även om when what a writer means is “even though / fastän“. You can’t say “Even if I have a big beard I can sort of understand women’s issues”. You know whether you have a beard or not. It’s an “even though” situation.
- I just got spammed by the LAISHUI COUNTY JINXING STONE CO., LTD. They want to sell me construction stone.
- Couldn’t remember the words “snowmobile safari”. Told my cousin’s daughter that we were going on a chainsaw massacre.
- Don’t tell my wife, but I’m wearing her sweat pants as a scarf.
- Remember: a working-class hero is something to be, not eat or pave bike paths with or make baskets from.
- Smug gamer dad: gave Jrette Love Letter for Christmas, taught it last night and this morning she played it with her cousin.
- There’s this slightly odd Facebook group, “Tips – 08″, where people in Stockholm ask each other for advice and offer barter opportunities. I scored some really good computer repairs there once, bartering an old laptop for the work. Anyway, I’m still a member, and sometimes people’s entries make me wince. Like, they’ll ask for medical advice and get crazy alt-med suggestions. Just now this woman is asking “How do you protect your face against the cold?” I restrained myself and didn’t reply “Just put baklawa on it”. I have a feeling most of the group’s members wouldn’t get it.
- When glimpsing my wife and daughter out of the corner of my eye I currently can’t tell them apart. Same height, same general looks, and they keep borrowing each other’s clothes. I’ll just have to wait for Jrette to get noticably taller than her mother.
- Been thinking about the cover of my forthcoming Bronze Age deposition book. I don’t just want a picture of a bog. Nor would a picture of a replica Bronze Age axe be quite what I want, even though there’s a replica mead hall on the cover of my book about those. So now I’m thinking, hey, those people who deposited bronze axes in lakes and streams all over the place — they actually also left images of axes. As rock carvings. So I’m hoping to find a picture of a good axe rock-carving, maybe from the Enköping cluster.
- Sweden will rub off on you. Just met a Pakistani guy, wearing kurta kameez, pillbox hat and a big beard, going shopping for groceries with his toddler in a stroller.
- I attempted to call my wife “love chicken” in Mandarin. She looked confused. With my pronunciation it had come out as “You’re such an Egypt!”
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Yay! The new reading chair finally arrived!
- Sw. kujon “coward” is cognate with Sp. cojon “testicle”. Both go back to Lat. coleus “leather sack”. In the Swedish case the cowardly sense comes by way of a word for eunuch.
- I never did understand what exe2bin did.
- Wife: ”After I’ve been out running I always feel so good-looking!” Me: ”You mean running improves the accuracy of your eyesight and your powers of objective observation?”
- Rossi, the founder of the French ski manufacturer Rossignol, was the son of a gnome and a troll and did much to improve tolerance of gnolls in Alpine sports.
- Medieval Norse Greenlanders used the penis bone, os baculum, of the walrus as an axe haft.
- In the latest of my many one-man language crusades, I have declared war on the expression Eng. “even if” Sw. även om when what a writer means is “even though / fastän“. You can’t say “Even if I have a big beard I can sort of understand women’s issues”. You know whether you have a beard or not. It’s an “even though” situation.
- I just got spammed by the LAISHUI COUNTY JINXING STONE CO., LTD. They want to sell me construction stone.
- Couldn’t remember the words “snowmobile safari”. Told my cousin’s daughter that we were going on a chainsaw massacre.
- Don’t tell my wife, but I’m wearing her sweat pants as a scarf.
- Remember: a working-class hero is something to be, not eat or pave bike paths with or make baskets from.
- Smug gamer dad: gave Jrette Love Letter for Christmas, taught it last night and this morning she played it with her cousin.
- There’s this slightly odd Facebook group, “Tips – 08″, where people in Stockholm ask each other for advice and offer barter opportunities. I scored some really good computer repairs there once, bartering an old laptop for the work. Anyway, I’m still a member, and sometimes people’s entries make me wince. Like, they’ll ask for medical advice and get crazy alt-med suggestions. Just now this woman is asking “How do you protect your face against the cold?” I restrained myself and didn’t reply “Just put baklawa on it”. I have a feeling most of the group’s members wouldn’t get it.
- When glimpsing my wife and daughter out of the corner of my eye I currently can’t tell them apart. Same height, same general looks, and they keep borrowing each other’s clothes. I’ll just have to wait for Jrette to get noticably taller than her mother.
- Been thinking about the cover of my forthcoming Bronze Age deposition book. I don’t just want a picture of a bog. Nor would a picture of a replica Bronze Age axe be quite what I want, even though there’s a replica mead hall on the cover of my book about those. So now I’m thinking, hey, those people who deposited bronze axes in lakes and streams all over the place — they actually also left images of axes. As rock carvings. So I’m hoping to find a picture of a good axe rock-carving, maybe from the Enköping cluster.
- Sweden will rub off on you. Just met a Pakistani guy, wearing kurta kameez, pillbox hat and a big beard, going shopping for groceries with his toddler in a stroller.
- I attempted to call my wife “love chicken” in Mandarin. She looked confused. With my pronunciation it had come out as “You’re such an Egypt!”
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