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.

Hey kids, this looks like the perfect spot for your weekly installment of

FUN FACT TACO TRIVIA CORNER!

In 19th century Mexico, during the long tenure of President Porfirio Diaz, when the country’s middle and upper class looked across the pond towards Europe for fashion and culture, proper etiquette dictated that tacos should be held and raised towards the mouth with three fingers on one side, the thumb on the opposite, and an outstretched pinky finger.

Even a lot of Mexicans nowadays don’t know about this, you tell them and they will laugh in a getdafukouttahere! sort of way, fuhgedadoubit!

muh puriteh

“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.

My first thought was that this is around Belmont Park in San Diego, but that building on the left side of the picture has a bit of elevation, where the land around Belmont is flatter.

Is this in Santa Monica?

Gay-ay.

Six years ago: “It’s blockchain-powered!”

Oh… I once also tested a normcore look at The Grove!
Also, no one paid any attention to me.

The more I see the nakedness of the emperor, the more impressed I am with the skill of the wizards who crafted his invisible clothes.

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you’re dealing with complicated ideas

With many specific components or processes that must be differentiated between each other, and often the difference is negligible, abstract or hazy to the untrained eye.

Do the bottom one first. Then as next step, do the math of singularities with a paper cylinder and a paper cone, falling through curved spacetime. That’ll take a little more time and effort but you might just start blowing their minds a little deeper with the same pencil and paper folded in 3D.

All with the blaring self-righteousness of - “I lifted a finger once. Nothing happened overnight. Never again.”
Cheered on by those actively participating in concern trolling divide-and-conquer political campaign tactics, both from within the country and from halfway across the world in China and goddamned russia.

“Well I think these strange scientists should stop wasting their time peering over microscopes when there’s more important things to do… you know… things that common folk like us can understand and relate to immediately” - any typical anti-reason anti-science (probably religious) dolt, ignorantly vulnerable to things like cholera because they draw their water from the same river where people piss, shit and litter upstream.

Also a waste of your own time. Double edged sword. Unless you like sitting and waiting under flickering fluorescent lighting for your cavity search.

Well now I just gotta.

I USED
THE GOLDEN RATIO
BUT MY DESIGN
DON’T DEAD
OPEN INSIDE

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