Tuesday 31 January 2012
ratiometric or gmbh
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ง , labour, lifestyle, philosophy
Monday 30 January 2012
grecian grey
The economic stability of the European Union does not seem as prevalent in reporting currently, what with the Iranian standoff and campaign posturing in the US not willing to relinquish the centre ring. For those whose career’s purpose lies exclusively on reading such augers and repackaging austerities as something progressive and obliging, however, the plight of the Greeks is very much a topic for common-currency. Though usually reserved for the for the influence peddlers at the attendant transnational credit rating agencies (and their hangers-on) another industry, a group of German travel agents, is stirring the cauldron lately.
catagories: ๐ฌ๐ท, economic policy, travel
Sunday 29 January 2012
urbs in horto aut lapsus linguae
Latin is very much alive in the legal profession and anatomy, physics, and astronomy as well as with certain advocates in the Church, and it is in specific branches of the sciences and humanities that one finds rigour and preciseness that transcends translation. Some people bemoaning Latin grammar is no reason to replace the lingua Franca with English. How would chemists feel if they were required to use to German Sauerstoff and Wasserstoff as common parlance? Latin has remained the language of science all these years, aside from not being malleable like a living language, in part because it does require some formal education that invites peer-review and can serve as a barrier, not against progress and discovery and curiosity, but against intentional forgery and accidental duplication.
studio system
Saturday 28 January 2012
bauwerk
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, antiques, architecture, lifestyle
plagerize, bowdlerize
catagories: ๐ช๐บ, ๐ฅธ, America, networking and blogging, psychology, revolution
Thursday 26 January 2012
lethe
catagories: ๐ช๐บ, ๐ฅธ, networking and blogging, psychology
origami or copy pasta
catagories: ๐ก, ๐, labour, transportation
Wednesday 25 January 2012
yarn-bomb or garment district
The broadcaster Nord-Deutsche Rundfunk presented an interesting and tragic documentary illustrating the consequences of Western consumption and cavalier disposable attitudes and some of the unintended consequences of best-intentions.
catagories: ๐, ๐บ, environment, labour
dash, pinch, grain
catagories: lifestyle, networking and blogging, psychology
Tuesday 24 January 2012
lite cavalry or jawohl
Having gone through a few rounds of base-closures, de-basing as it is called overseas and RIF (Reduction in Force) in the States, and emerged unscathed, I am uncertain what to feel about this next cycle of transformation, a reset for appraisal of America's military after quitting Iraq and poised to leave Afghanistan. Locally (vor Ort), people are nervous over the potential negative economic impact of loosing soldiers--or making European rotations unaccompanied, tours lasting only a year and without bringing one's family.
Monday 23 January 2012
penumbra
marco polo or year of the water-dragon
catagories: ๐ญ๐ท, Europe, holidays and observances, lifestyle, travel
Saturday 21 January 2012
Friday 20 January 2012
talons or red-herring/black-flag
It is indefensible to earn fortunes by giving away the property of others, like the group of individuals behind a popular file-sharing web had accomplished. The vicious attacks and entrapment on the part of Federales, pressed into service by Hollywood who in turned leaned on international law-enforcement to make the apprehensions, is going to extremes.
catagories: ๐ฅธ, America, foreign policy, networking and blogging
Thursday 19 January 2012
herab heraus or power of the purse
While still caught in either mid-yawn or mid-reel from the repercussions of the downgrade (Herabstufung-- Herabstufung is an upgrade or a promotion) of nine states of the European Union by one member of the creditworthiness brat-pack, the agency then proceeded to cast a pall of doubt on the EU’s financial crisis-management plan, the European Financial Stability Facility (gekรผrtz als EFSF oder bail-out pie), making the mechanisms of recovery potentially more costly, paying a dearer premium on the assurance of their efforts.
air america
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ช๐บ, ๐บ๐ธ, ✈️, environment
Wednesday 18 January 2012
byzantine
catagories: America, economic policy, foreign policy, networking and blogging, psychology
degrees of separation
That some websites are taking a stance on a politically pregnant issue, does raise questions of maintaining neutrality and insulating influence, but when pressed into free-determination over expurgation, there is the matter of self-defense, survival and keeping the entire substrate of the internet fertile and useful. Courts in the UK recently ruled that links do not constitute libel, and I wonder how citation, just as modern arts are sometimes dismissed as footnotes to the Classics, can mean guilt by association. Hobby and opinion should not be empowered at the expense of another's entitlement and no one is proposing otherwise, and one's voice and access should not be sacrificed to ownership, and unfortuneately is what some propose. I personally felt at a lost and a little ungrounded without a dose of science and the humanities, enough to excite the curiosity and endure like an after-image beyond the competition for attention. Hopefully the message is resounding and we take the time to appreciate those tools and movements that are an integral part of learning and teaching.
catagories: ๐, lifestyle, networking and blogging, Wikipedia
Tuesday 17 January 2012
kauderwelsch
Monday 16 January 2012
barnard’s star or space oddity
Sunday 15 January 2012
blackout warden
catagories: ๐ฅธ, graphic design, lifestyle, networking and blogging, Wikipedia
Saturday 14 January 2012
streitkrรคfte
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐บ๐ธ, ๐, foreign policy
kurzfrist
The news of a rash of downgrades in credit-worthiness, both for the short-term and the long-haul, was generally taken with a healthy wince and a shrug by the governments of Europe. After all, people who live in glass houses ought not throw stones: despite what prognosis rating agencies in the United States threaten, which only speak to a skittish cabal, a massive underclass of underwriters enabling a more elite class of cooler heads to continue exercising grander manipulations, that does not discount the fact that a group of seventeen and twenty-seven nations, with different cultures, languages and priorities are still willing to engage one another peacefully and fairly in order to work things out.
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ช๐บ, ๐ซ๐ท, ๐บ๐ธ, economic policy
Friday 13 January 2012
tabloid and broadsheet
catagories: ๐บ๐ธ, ๐ฌ, ๐ฅธ, networking and blogging
Thursday 12 January 2012
sustenance or food goes viral
catagories: food and drink, health and medicine
Wednesday 11 January 2012
truth in advertising
catagories: ๐ช๐บ, ๐ฅธ, economic policy, networking and blogging, Wikipedia
stamp act or omm-nomm-nomm
Tuesday 10 January 2012
penny dreadful
catagories: America, Europe, foreign policy, psychology
Monday 9 January 2012
on hook
I got many nifty and fine gifts this year and one accessory really makes for a clever combination. I am ever resistant to the flashier cellular phones (sogennant Handys) mostly because affording a fancy cachet usually means that one becomes saddled with a contract.
catagories: lifestyle, technology and innovation
forex or laissez-faire is everywhere
Sunday 8 January 2012
slant
catagories: ⚖️, ๐บ๐ธ, ๐, ๐ฑ, ๐ฅธ, foreign policy, networking and blogging, Wikipedia
Saturday 7 January 2012
badeort
The clever system reminds me of the palm-flowers (life-clocks) from Logan’s Run (which that more recent movie In Time is reminiscent of, I think). It is too bad that the disk does not change colour as one’s time is running out. It's easy to lose track in a place like this, and that is probably not just by design.
typebox
catagories: graphic design, language, networking and blogging
botanical update
The little flowers are quite nice, delicate and with a repeating five-point symmetry. I also wanted to share a picture of the less attractive primogenitor of all those healthy offspring. Fit to burst that little honey pot, this is the sort of baobab that the Little Prince had to look out for, lest his little planet be split in two.
catagories: environment, lifestyle, networking and blogging
Friday 6 January 2012
imperium or neap tide
catagories: America, foreign policy, lifestyle, technology and innovation