Why does every Greek letter sound so ominous?

TIL I learned that the word "senate" is derived from the Latin word "senex" meaning "old man".

TIL that Betty White is older than sliced bread. Also, her and Rue McClanahan were originally offered their respective parts on The Golden Girls.

I know this sounds patronizing but the Spanish word for small (pequeño/a) is super cute.

Unoaked whiskey.  Isn't that just...vodka?

Tree Corridor. Mansonville, Quebec

Mansonville, Quebec

I'll admit I gave up on the series after...book11?  Still excited, though :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fus4Xb_TLg

I've been doing Spanish on Duolingo since December of last year, and I STILL have trouble mentally translating "Yo tengo" as "I have" as opposed to "You tango?"

If I say that my professional life has spanned RCS, CVS, Mercurial and Git, this tell you something (depressing) about my age.

Like everyone else, I'm now a git user, but I still say that Mercurial was the most elegant of the bunch, at least in terms of its emmiently predictable and well-designed CLI, even if the software itself gave up the ghost years ago.

Back in the day, when version control systems were still duking it out, I used to try and defend Mercurial to rabid git fans, mostly to no avail. I always felt that I was at a bit of a disadvantage in those conversation (cue the git fans yelling "Yeah, cuz mercurial SUCKS!"), because I was always willing to concede, despite appreciating Mercurial's virtues, that git actually did have its strengths as well as its weaknesses, while the git fans were rarely so magnanimous with any other VCS.

Read more »

Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward island

Victoria by the Sea, Prince Edward Island

Lonely

Aha, so THAT'S what a crab pinch feels like

Drambuie has a bad reputation, but for what it is worth it's pretty good in a sour - 2 parts Drambuie, 1 part lemon juice, shaken over ice and strained.  This is from a guy who actually likes Rusty Nails.

I find the Spanish tendency to drop the subject of a sentence when it's implied by the format of the verb to be both jarring and admirably efficient

The Expanse is an awesome series of books but am I the only one who loves the fact that each and every chapter is almost exactly ten pages long?

Helen Keller died less than 10 years before I was born. I am ancient.

Dose number dos!

Watching Domina on Crave made start watching I, Claudius, and it's super interesting to see the same historical figures portrayed on two entirely different shows, with two entirely different agendas

Got my first shot #HousePfizer !

I've of the things I have to deal with in Spanish: 'sombrero' means 'hat', and I sort of already knew this, but I always associated it with a very specific kind of hat, not hats in general.

First practical duolingo result: I now understand that the chihuahua was saying "I want Taco Bell"

Zack Snyder's Justice League.  A better movie, but not a good movie.

Thinking of trying eleventy.  But I've put some much effort into my pelican setup.  Hrm.