Sunday, February 27
Mason Neck State Park
Had a great day at the park with Moses and Harry.
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Thursday, February 24
Best Picture 2011
Are dismembered arms a requirement this year?
Note "Winters Bone", "True Grit", and "127 Hours".
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Note "Winters Bone", "True Grit", and "127 Hours".
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Saturday, February 19
Wednesday, February 16
A Lecture
"Is my green your green? Would ultramarine by any other name seem as sweet? For Victorian England's most celebrated thinkers, including Charles Darwin and Prime Minister and Homeric scholar William Gladstone, such questions sparked a firestorm of intellectual inquiry that spread from philology to psychology, from the ivory tower to the local playground. Zed Adams, a philosopher at the New School for Social Research, sets up metaphysical shop at the Velaslavasay Panorama to chart the legacy of these debates beyond the annals of history, through Technicolor, and into our digital age." - Melissa Lo at Flavorpill
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Sunday, February 13
Flamingos
Today's Moment of Nature featured flamingos at Hialeah Raceway in Florida. Although it seems like a dream now, it reminded me of the flamingos at Lake Momelia in Tanzania - the pink ring. Remember?
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Just In Passing 2
I remember many years ago wondering why I thought that the word "recipe" was spelled "receipt" which even then didn't make much sense. But now I know why...I was reading "Sense and Sensibility".
"A Receipt is an old form that means the same as recipe. Both derive from Latin recipere, to receive or take. Receipt was first used in medieval English as a formula or prescription for a medicinal preparation (Chaucer is the first known user, in the Canterbury Tales of about 1386). The sense of “a written statement saying that money or goods have been received” only arrived at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Recipe is the imperative, “take!”, from the same Latin verb. It was traditionally the first word in a prescription, heading the list of ingredients. This was often abbreviated to a letter R with a bar through the leg, a form that still sometimes appears on modern prescription forms. Recipe has been used alongside receipt since the eighteenth century in the sense of cookery instructions, gradually replacing it over time. At the time the newspaper report was written, 1895, receipt was still common.
It’s by no means entirely defunct even today. It is often — but by no means always — a deliberate archaism. John Wilson noted, “It was used on British television, up to the late 1990s, on the programme Two Fat Ladies, featuring Clarissa Dickson Wright and the late Jennifer Paterson, who invariably spoke of receipts. She said this with (metaphorical) relish and I feel sure she did it for effect as a conscious statement of her background and style.”
But many other subscribers have told me that it has survived until recently in parts of the English-speaking world, especially the United States. Douglas G Wilson confirms this: “I heard it routinely in the 1960s, though only from older people. The Dictionary of American Regional English seems to suggest that it became more-or-less obsolete around 1960. William and Mary Morris wrote in their column Words, Wit, and Wisdom in 1970, ‘Throughout New England and in rural areas in many other parts of the country, you will still hear receipt more often than recipe.’ So at least the Morrises thought it was still very widely current in 1970.”
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"A Receipt is an old form that means the same as recipe. Both derive from Latin recipere, to receive or take. Receipt was first used in medieval English as a formula or prescription for a medicinal preparation (Chaucer is the first known user, in the Canterbury Tales of about 1386). The sense of “a written statement saying that money or goods have been received” only arrived at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Recipe is the imperative, “take!”, from the same Latin verb. It was traditionally the first word in a prescription, heading the list of ingredients. This was often abbreviated to a letter R with a bar through the leg, a form that still sometimes appears on modern prescription forms. Recipe has been used alongside receipt since the eighteenth century in the sense of cookery instructions, gradually replacing it over time. At the time the newspaper report was written, 1895, receipt was still common.
It’s by no means entirely defunct even today. It is often — but by no means always — a deliberate archaism. John Wilson noted, “It was used on British television, up to the late 1990s, on the programme Two Fat Ladies, featuring Clarissa Dickson Wright and the late Jennifer Paterson, who invariably spoke of receipts. She said this with (metaphorical) relish and I feel sure she did it for effect as a conscious statement of her background and style.”
But many other subscribers have told me that it has survived until recently in parts of the English-speaking world, especially the United States. Douglas G Wilson confirms this: “I heard it routinely in the 1960s, though only from older people. The Dictionary of American Regional English seems to suggest that it became more-or-less obsolete around 1960. William and Mary Morris wrote in their column Words, Wit, and Wisdom in 1970, ‘Throughout New England and in rural areas in many other parts of the country, you will still hear receipt more often than recipe.’ So at least the Morrises thought it was still very widely current in 1970.”
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Just In Passing
Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day in the same year(1809).
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Saturday, February 12
Think About It
"You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty."
- Cecil Baxter
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- Cecil Baxter
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Tuesday, February 8
Thursday, February 3
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