Tuesday word: Carillon

Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 04:57 pm
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Carillon (noun)
carillon [kar-uh-lon, -luhn, kuh-ril-yuhn]


noun
1. a set of stationary bells hung in a tower and sounded by manual or pedal action, or by machinery.
2. a set of horizontal metal plates, struck by hammers, used in the modern orchestra.

See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com

Origin: 1765–75; < French: set of bells, Old French car ( e ) ignon, quarregnon < Vulgar Latin *quadriniōn-, re-formation of Late Latin quaterniōn- quaternion; presumably originally a set of four bells

Example Sentences
At noon on Tuesday, some church bells and carillons in the Netherlands didn’t sound like they usually do.
From New York Times

Charles Semowich, who plays the carillon inside the 392-foot tower at Riverside Church, said he hears occasional screeching outside his window.
From Seattle Times

Artists can take over and “play” billboards and the chapel like a carillonneur playing a carillon.
From New York Times

The final gesture comes as a surprise: a sudden, brilliant cascade from opposite ends of the keyboard toward the center, a carillon from the beyond.
From New York Times

The carillon isn’t just a workout for the legs.
From Washington Post

Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.

Tuesday word: Carillon

Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 09:58 am
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Carillon (noun)
carillon [kar-uh-lon, -luhn, kuh-ril-yuhn]


noun
1. a set of stationary bells hung in a tower and sounded by manual or pedal action, or by machinery.
2. a set of horizontal metal plates, struck by hammers, used in the modern orchestra.

See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com

Origin: 1765–75; < French: set of bells, Old French car ( e ) ignon, quarregnon < Vulgar Latin *quadriniōn-, re-formation of Late Latin quaterniōn- quaternion; presumably originally a set of four bells

Example Sentences
At noon on Tuesday, some church bells and carillons in the Netherlands didn’t sound like they usually do.
From New York Times

Charles Semowich, who plays the carillon inside the 392-foot tower at Riverside Church, said he hears occasional screeching outside his window.
From Seattle Times

Artists can take over and “play” billboards and the chapel like a carillonneur playing a carillon.
From New York Times

The final gesture comes as a surprise: a sudden, brilliant cascade from opposite ends of the keyboard toward the center, a carillon from the beyond.
From New York Times

The carillon isn’t just a workout for the legs.
From Washington Post

Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.

apiculture

Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 06:46 pm
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apiculture (AY-puh-kuhl-tchuhr) - n., beekeeping.


That is, the science of raising or maintaining colonies of bees and their hives, especially at scale. The word was apparently coined in French, from Latin apis, bee + cultūra, cultivation, on the model of agriculture (“field-culture”), and taken into English around 1860.

—L.

Monday Word: Panoply

Monday, July 7th, 2025 04:27 pm
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panoply

noun

[pan-uh-plee]

1. a wide-ranging and impressive array or display.
2. the dazzling panoply of the maharaja's procession; the panoply of European history.
3. a complete suit of armor.
4. a protective covering.
5. full ceremonial attire or paraphernalia; special dress and equipment.

examples

The fair also boasts a panoply of food mixing ingredients in interesting and strange ways.
—Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 16 June 2025

Costume designer Lindsay Pugh creates a panoply of Viking garb that balances its intricate historical detail with a healthy dollop of whimsy.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 June 2025

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival has so far brought a panoply of movies for critics, audiences, and potential buyers to check out.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 20 May 2025

origin

Panoply comes from the Greek word panoplia, which referred to the full suit of armor worn by hoplites, heavily armed infantry soldiers of ancient Greece. Panoplia is a blend of the prefix pan-, meaning “all,” and hopla, meaning “arms” or “armor.”

panoply

Bottle Late Than Never

Sunday, July 6th, 2025 11:24 pm
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Most of this four-day weekend was devoted to bottling homebrew. Since yeast do the real work, most of the human labor in home brewing is cleaning. There have been four carboys sitting on the kitchen counter for four years and change because every time I would clean the kitchen on a Saturday with the goal of bottling on a Sunday, I wouldn't end up with the energy to follow through the next day. Then a week later, the kitchen would be dirty again, and it would be a month or two before there was time to consider the project again. Since this is the first Independence Day weekend in three years that we haven't gotten a shelter cat, we coordinated with Kelly's friend Jim to come over on Saturday to help. Having an external party deadline, plus two weekdays off work, helped motivate some house cleaning, and we were almost ready to go when he arrived.

The pending potables dated back to 2018. I made a cyser with apple cider from a community pressing that fall. I didn't really procrastinate on bottling this one: I siphoned out several bottles over time, but they all had too strong of an alcohol flavor that I like to describe as "The yeast are angry." I think this is due to fermentation at too high a temperature (my house doesn't have a great cool place), which releases a lot of unwanted esters. Advice from the Yeastherders Gatherum had been to just give it more time;. After six years on the counter, when I brought a bottle last year, it was really well received. Good things are worth waiting for.

While the cyser was in its early stages of aging, I successfully bottled at least twice. The straight cider from that year was bottled with no drouble. And the next fall I bought an all-grain system from a coworker. I made a dunkel weizen to learn how to do an all-grain brew, and bottled a month later. Awkwardly, I haven't done a whole grain beer since…

The bottling procrastination began with my red braggot misadventures in 2020. At the start of COVID lockdown I headed to the homebrew store for beer ingredients, figuring that being stuck at home would be a great opportunity to try some brewing. March and April 2020 turned out to be pretty distracting, and I didn't get around to cleaning the kitchen plus energy to brew until late May. I put the hops and red malt in the pot for half an hour, then discovered that my liquid malt extract had gone moldy while sitting around for two months. Not wanting to waste part of a brew, I switched my plan from a 50%/50% malt/honey braggot to a 3:1 or 4:1 mix with a little less volume and no aroma hops. 2020 continued to be distracting (remember doomscrolling?) so June rolled by without bottling, then July, and then the onset of "ugh, I cleaned the kitchen, I can't possibly accomplish anything else this weekend.

2021 brought a return to "go out in the world and do things. It was also a good year for apples in Boulder County, so I spent a weekend with good folks first shaking apple trees, then squishing apples. I got home Sunday night and put sulfites in five gallons of apple cider in a bucket and started a three gallon batch of cyser with a different honey. Monday night I pitched yeast in the cider, Tuesday we packed for Element 11, Utah's regional burn. Normally I would rack from the bucket to the carboy after a week or two. "We just got back from a Burn" is clearly not enough energy to clean the kitchen. The next weekend was also in energy recovery mode. And once again the cycle began. I finally had the time and energy to rack it to secondary two months later, probably on Thanksgiving weekend. And then I discovered that either the sulfites hadn't killed all the wild microbes, or the several inches of headroom in the fermenting bucket and a little unsanitary spot had allowed a significant layer of pellicle to form on top of the liquid. I was worried the project was ruined, but I racked it to a carboy anyway and planned to check the Internet for solutions. I put a quart of it in a separate bottle for investigation. I drank that over the ensuing weeks and it wasn't terrible, nor did I get sick. So now I just needed a plan for dealing with the pellicle.

2022 through 2024 continued to be distracting. I had a lot of vacation time saved up coming out of the pandemic, so I spent a lot of 2022 planning for, at, or returning from a fun adventure. In 2023 I got really into Parks on the Air, so any weekend with good weather was a lot more tempting to spend an afternoon playing radio than cleaning and bottling. 2023 and 2024's 4-day weekends in July were filled with Dead shows and new cats, and the November 4-day weekends had turned into "get ready for Advent of Code." I was at least responsible enough not to start any new homebrew projects while there were four carboys awaiting.

After twelve hours of moving fluids around, resterilizing equipment, and "relax, don't worry, have a homebrew," the complete bottle array looks kind of smaller than I'd imagined. The contents are pretty good, though. The previous night I racked the cider to the bucket, leaving the pellicle layer behind. I put a quarter teaspoon of potassium metasulfite in overnight, so hopefully that prevents anything from redeveloping in the bottle. The taste is quite dry and a little funky; it won't be to everyone's liking, but Jim liked it. The red braggot came out a dark amber, almost brown, with about 9% alcohol. It also left some interesting colors and shapes at the bototm of the carboy, and it's going to take several attempts to scrub the carboy completely clean. The 2018 cyser has mellowed pretty nicely and has a decent flavor, while packing a punch at 15% alcohol. The 2021 cyser is probably the best of the bunch: it started at 14% potential alcohol, but finished with 3% remaining: I used a British ale yeast instead of a wine yeast, so it can't hit ABV in the teens. This means it's remarkably sweet, preserving a lot of they honey flavor (though not so much of the apple). It also finished remarkably clear, a light gold color you can see through, while the 2018 cyser is a dark orange. I suspect the color difference is due to the honey: an American blend for 2021 and Brazilian wildflower in 2018.

Making mead with ale yeasts is something I'll have to pursue further. I'd been following the practices of other yeastherders and brewing with wine yeasts, which can generally process all the sugar you can pack in with honey. But a beer-strength yeast lets more sugars remain, better preserving the sweetness and character of the honey. Plus, I think there are more high-temperature ale yeasts than there are wine yeasts, for those of us without a cellar.

Sunday Word: Mangel-wurzel

Sunday, July 6th, 2025 09:44 am
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mangel-wurzel [mang-guhl-wur-zuhl]

noun:
(chiefly British) a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.


(click to enlarge)

Examples:

The village's Punkie Night takes place on the last Thursday in October. Children carry "punkies" - lanterns traditionally made from a large turnip known as a mangel-wurzel - and stop at key locations to sing the Punkie Song. (Linda Serck, Halloween: England's strange and ancient winter rituals, BBC, October 2014)

Teams of three compete to see who can land their mangel-wurzel nearest a large, leafless one, called a 'Norman'. (So wurzel our mangels gone?, Express, October, 2012)

We feel inclined to embrace Mr Hardy, though we are not fond of him, in pure satisfaction with the good brown soil and substantial flesh and blood, the cows, and the mangel-wurzel, and the hard labour of the fields - which he makes us smell and see. (Joanne Wilkes (ed), Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century)

He soon discovers that the melon has no more flavor than a mangel-wurzel, and that the apricot tastes like a turnip radish. (Charles James Lever, The Dodd Family Abroad)

She turned to Philip. "Athelny's always like this when we come down here. Country, I like that! Why, he don't know a swede from a mangel-wurzel." (Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage)

His mouth is open, too, and big enough apparently to hold a mangel-wurzel. ( Gordon Stables, The Cruise of the Land-Yacht 'Wanderer'; or, Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan)

Origin:

Root vegetables aren't the most sexy things either to eat or write about but I hope to show that this one's an exception. Let's get a couple of important things right before we go any further - its name is usually written mangel-wurzel and it isn't a relative of the turnip but a large variety of beet, closely related to the sugar beet and the beetroot or red beet.

Mind you, many people have been confused about it down the years. These root vegetables all look alike to the non-specialist and we don't even all have the same names for them. The British swede is the rutabaga in the US, for example, the latter name having been taken from an old dialect Swedish word for this type of turnip. (Brits call it a swede because it was bred in Sweden in the eighteenth century; the Scots name for it is neep, as in bashed neeps, or mashed turnips, a traditional accompaniment to the famous haggis). But when H L Mencken wrote in The American Language in 1921 that Englishmen 'still call the rutabaga a mangelwurzel', he was seriously up the botanical and agricultural creek without a leg to stand on.

Mangel-wurzel is mainly a British term, which is often shortened to mangel, or sometimes to mangold. To many townies, it evokes a stereotyped traditional yokel rurality in which every peasant wears a smock, wields a pitchfork, and talks in a Mummerset accent. Think of the scarecrow Worzel Gummidge, whose first name comes from the vegetable, though the author states that his head was actually made from a turnip. Confusion abounds.

Mangel-wurzel is originally German. The first part is the old word Mangold, meaning beet or chard (the latter being the green leaves from a variety of beet). The second part is Wurzel, a root. Germans became confused about the first part several centuries ago and thought it was instead Mangel, a shortage or lack. From this has grown up the popular belief that mangel-wurzel refers to a famine food, a root you eat only when you're starving. This is a gross calumny, since when young it's as tasty and sweet as other sorts of beet, though it's mainly used as animal fodder. (World Wide Words)

Sunday Word: Mangel-wurzel

Sunday, July 6th, 2025 04:42 pm
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mangel-wurzel [mang-guhl-wur-zuhl]

noun:
(chiefly British) a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.


(click to enlarge)

Examples:

The village's Punkie Night takes place on the last Thursday in October. Children carry "punkies" - lanterns traditionally made from a large turnip known as a mangel-wurzel - and stop at key locations to sing the Punkie Song. (Linda Serck, Halloween: England's strange and ancient winter rituals, BBC, October 2014)

Teams of three compete to see who can land their mangel-wurzel nearest a large, leafless one, called a 'Norman'. (So wurzel our mangels gone?, Express, October, 2012)

We feel inclined to embrace Mr Hardy, though we are not fond of him, in pure satisfaction with the good brown soil and substantial flesh and blood, the cows, and the mangel-wurzel, and the hard labour of the fields - which he makes us smell and see. (Joanne Wilkes (ed), Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century)

He soon discovers that the melon has no more flavor than a mangel-wurzel, and that the apricot tastes like a turnip radish. (Charles James Lever, The Dodd Family Abroad)

She turned to Philip. "Athelny's always like this when we come down here. Country, I like that! Why, he don't know a swede from a mangel-wurzel." (Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage)

His mouth is open, too, and big enough apparently to hold a mangel-wurzel. ( Gordon Stables, The Cruise of the Land-Yacht 'Wanderer'; or, Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan)

Origin:

Root vegetables aren't the most sexy things either to eat or write about but I hope to show that this one's an exception. Let's get a couple of important things right before we go any further - its name is usually written mangel-wurzel and it isn't a relative of the turnip but a large variety of beet, closely related to the sugar beet and the beetroot or red beet.

Mind you, many people have been confused about it down the years. These root vegetables all look alike to the non-specialist and we don't even all have the same names for them. The British swede is the rutabaga in the US, for example, the latter name having been taken from an old dialect Swedish word for this type of turnip. (Brits call it a swede because it was bred in Sweden in the eighteenth century; the Scots name for it is neep, as in bashed neeps, or mashed turnips, a traditional accompaniment to the famous haggis). But when H L Mencken wrote in The American Language in 1921 that Englishmen 'still call the rutabaga a mangelwurzel', he was seriously up the botanical and agricultural creek without a leg to stand on.

Mangel-wurzel is mainly a British term, which is often shortened to mangel, or sometimes to mangold. To many townies, it evokes a stereotyped traditional yokel rurality in which every peasant wears a smock, wields a pitchfork, and talks in a Mummerset accent. Think of the scarecrow Worzel Gummidge, whose first name comes from the vegetable, though the author states that his head was actually made from a turnip. Confusion abounds.

Mangel-wurzel is originally German. The first part is the old word Mangold, meaning beet or chard (the latter being the green leaves from a variety of beet). The second part is Wurzel, a root. Germans became confused about the first part several centuries ago and thought it was instead Mangel, a shortage or lack. From this has grown up the popular belief that mangel-wurzel refers to a famine food, a root you eat only when you're starving. This is a gross calumny, since when young it's as tasty and sweet as other sorts of beet, though it's mainly used as animal fodder. (World Wide Words)

monopolylogue

Friday, July 4th, 2025 06:41 pm
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monopolylogue (mon-uh-POL-i-log) - n., a performance in which one person plays multiple characters.


Often, especially, all of them. Not a new coinage (which is from mono-, one + poly-, many + -logue, talk) as it dates to 1819, used in a playbill advertising a performance by Charles Mathews. Charles Dickens would, on reading tours, perform monopolylogues of his own works.

—L.

premonish

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 06:27 pm
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premonish (pri-MON-ish) - v., to warn in advance.


Although admonish now means something more like rebuke, especially after the fact, it originally meant warn beforehand--from Latin ad-, against + moneō, warn/advise. This much less known word replaces the prefix with pre-, here in the sense of before.

——L.

Watch out, it's getting worse

Monday, June 30th, 2025 05:13 pm
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Last year I noticed that almost all the velcro hooks on my Timex Expedition watch band had been torn out. This wasn't entirely surprising; I've been taking the watch off every night and putting it on every morning for more than a decade. At one point I thought the battery had died, so I unscrewed the back to find out what coin cell number it had; when I reassembled it I discovered that merely repositioning the battery gave it several years more life.

I checked the Timex website, which has product listings for dozens of straps, almost all of which were marked as unavailable. I entered my email to be notified when the strap was back in stock, but six months later the velcro had become dangerously un-clingy and still no luck, so I bought a new watch of the same model. I think it cost $50, and I'm pretty sure I paid about $20 for the original in the early 2010s, so there's an inflation datum for you.

The new watch works the same, except I noticed the Indiglo feature wasn't very helpful: it illuminated the LCD, but just as a big glowing rectangle: no digits were visible. Still, a functional watch in daytime or dusk.

Earlier this month I attended a pagan event in the California redwoods. Wanting to check the time while singing songs around the campfire, I hit the Indiglo button on my year-old watch, but this time it erased most of the LCD segments on the face, leaving behind something resembling an inverted L|. Fortunately, I kept the non-clingy watch in my ham radio bag, with time set to UTC. I was able to switch watches for the remainder of the trip, careful to ensure that disconnecting velcro didn't come off my arm entirely.

Back at home, I unscrewed the back of the new watch. I removed the battery, which has a significantly more complicated placement than the previous decade's model. It also requires shorting the battery to the rest of the watch, which I've yet to successfully do, so I've now got a non-functional watch. But fortunately, this meant I had a new watchband I could put on my perfectly-functional old-watch. Still waiting for an email on Timex about the ability to do this the easy way…

Rebuilding journal search again

Monday, June 30th, 2025 03:18 pm
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We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.

Monday Word: tantalus

Monday, June 30th, 2025 02:00 pm
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tantalus [tan-tl-uhs]

noun

1. a stand or rack containing visible decanters, especially of wines or liquors, secured by a lock; a case in which bottles may be locked with their contents tantalizingly visible

examples

1. A tantalus containing three kinds of spirit, all of a liqueur excellence, stood always on this table of luxury; but the fanciful have asserted that the whisky, brandy, and rum seemed always to stand at the same level. The Wisdom of Father Brown G.K. Chesterton

2. Carstairs made a gesture towards the tantalus on the table. Afterwards Kathlyn Rhodes

origin

Latin, from Greek Tantalos, from the Greek myth of Tantalus, a wicked king and son of Zeus; condemned in Hades to stand in water that receded when he tried to drink and beneath fruit that receded when he reached for it
tantalus

Sunday Word: Bagatelle

Sunday, June 29th, 2025 09:51 am
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bagatelle [bag-uh-tel]

noun:
1 something of little value or importance; a trifle
2 a game played on a board having holes at one end into which balls are to be struck with a cue
3 a short literary or musical piece in light style

Examples:

If anything, the slowly accumulating final chord of the bagatelle could have set up the softly arpeggiated one at the start of 'Twilight Way', the first of the 'Poetic Tone Pictures.' (Joshua Barone, Review: Dvorak’s 'Poetic Tone Pictures’ Makes Its Carnegie Debut, New York Times, February 2023)

Pinball got its start in 18th-century France with the billiardslike tabletop game bagatelle, which used a springlike launcher. (World-ranked pinball wizard is reviving the game in San Antonio with a new startup, san Antonio Express-News, March 2020)

When you are caught in a web of conspiracies, the best of deeds becomes a mere bagatelle, as we find in the fall of Udensi. (Henry Akubuiro, Travails of a Good Samaritan , The Sun Nigeria, March 2021)

Among the most divisive issues in philosophy today is whether there is anything important to be said about the essential nature of truth. Bullshit, by contrast, might seem to be a mere bagatelle. (Jim Holt, Say Anything, The New Yorker, August 2005)

'Overdue; was the title he had decided for it, and its length he believed would not be more than sixty thousand words - a bagatelle for him with his splendid vigor of production. (Jack London, Martin Eden)

The betrayal of one's friends is a bagatelle in the stakes of love, but the betrayal of oneself is a lifelong regret. (Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love)

Then there were the bird cages, the iron hoops, the steel skates, the Queen Anne coal-scuttle, the bagatelle board, the hand organ - all gone, and jewels, too. (Virginia Woolf, 'The Mark on the Wall')

Origin:

1630s, 'a trifle, thing of no importance,' from French bagatelle 'knick-knack, bauble, trinket' (16c.), from Italian bagatella 'a trifle,' which is perhaps a diminutive of Latin baca 'berry,' or from one of the continental words (such as Old French bague 'bundle') from the same source as English bag. As 'a piece of light music,' it is attested from 1827. (Online Etymology Dictionary)

Sunday Word: Bagatelle

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bagatelle [bag-uh-tel]

noun:
1 something of little value or importance; a trifle
2 a game played on a board having holes at one end into which balls are to be struck with a cue
3 a short literary or musical piece in light style

Examples:

If anything, the slowly accumulating final chord of the bagatelle could have set up the softly arpeggiated one at the start of 'Twilight Way', the first of the 'Poetic Tone Pictures.' (Joshua Barone, Review: Dvorak’s 'Poetic Tone Pictures’ Makes Its Carnegie Debut, New York Times, February 2023)

Pinball got its start in 18th-century France with the billiardslike tabletop game bagatelle, which used a springlike launcher. (World-ranked pinball wizard is reviving the game in San Antonio with a new startup, san Antonio Express-News, March 2020)

When you are caught in a web of conspiracies, the best of deeds becomes a mere bagatelle, as we find in the fall of Udensi. (Henry Akubuiro, Travails of a Good Samaritan , The Sun Nigeria, March 2021)

Among the most divisive issues in philosophy today is whether there is anything important to be said about the essential nature of truth. Bullshit, by contrast, might seem to be a mere bagatelle. (Jim Holt, Say Anything, The New Yorker, August 2005)

'Overdue; was the title he had decided for it, and its length he believed would not be more than sixty thousand words - a bagatelle for him with his splendid vigor of production. (Jack London, Martin Eden)

The betrayal of one's friends is a bagatelle in the stakes of love, but the betrayal of oneself is a lifelong regret. (Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love)

Then there were the bird cages, the iron hoops, the steel skates, the Queen Anne coal-scuttle, the bagatelle board, the hand organ - all gone, and jewels, too. (Virginia Woolf, 'The Mark on the Wall')

Origin:

1630s, 'a trifle, thing of no importance,' from French bagatelle 'knick-knack, bauble, trinket' (16c.), from Italian bagatella 'a trifle,' which is perhaps a diminutive of Latin baca 'berry,' or from one of the continental words (such as Old French bague 'bundle') from the same source as English bag. As 'a piece of light music,' it is attested from 1827. (Online Etymology Dictionary)

101/1001 Update

Saturday, July 5th, 2025 05:23 pm
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Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem. - Stephen Covey



Body/Martial Arts/Physical Improvement/Testing: I've not trained in one Shaolin Kung Fu class in the last two weeks. My body is returning to its more motivated self, and some walking with my EDC ruck in the neighborhood has been good for me. I've started to get caught up with my rucking challenges, starting with July's Challenges but working on May and June, as well.

May's GoRuck 'Believe' Challenges are ongoing. The workout for May is the traditional 'Murph' Challenge. The Murph Challenge is "not just a physical test, but also a mental and emotional one. Participants are pushed to their limits and are encouraged to keep pushing through the pain and exhaustion, just as Lieutenant Michael Murphy did during his final moments." At the Tough level, it is a 1-mile ruck, 200 Sandbag Bent Over Rows (the substitute for 100 pull-ups), 200 Pushups, and 300 Squats, and then another 1-mile ruck, all wearing a 20-lb. plate carrier, and using a 60-lb. sandbag. The F*CK was Max reps of strict pull-ups in one set, and that turned out to be 0. *sigh* I'm not as strong as I was a month or so ago. I'm working on it!

June's GoRuck 'Resilience' Challenges are also now in progress, with a focus on Apache (pursed lip) breathing. The workout, "Take a sip of water and hold it in your mouth for the duration of the workout. Every time you swallow the water or spit it out do 10 Burpees over your ruck", is 4 rounds of a 400m Ruck, 10 Sandbag Power Cleans, and 10 Sandbag Shoulder to Overhead, wearing my ruck for the entire workout except the penalty burpees, with the ruck weight 30 lbs.+, and the 60 lb. sandbag for my level. The Rucking and Additional Challenge requirements are Apache breathing for a mile at base weight, with an extra mile every week, i.e., week 2 = 2 miles, week 3 = 3 miles, etc. The Film-of-the-Month is The 12th Man, a Harald Zwart film, and the F*CK is a 1-mile Apache Ruck for time. I have completed the first week's 1-mile Apache ruck with a 45 lb. plate in my ruck.

July's 'Dream' Challenges are also ongoing. The workout was the 'Independence Beer Mile', where "Before each lap, Chug a beer" (with sober options), "Next, ruck shuffle 1 quarter-mile lap. Repeat 4 times, for a total of 4 beers/drinks and 1 mile". The ruck weight for my class: 60-100 lbs. Also, "If you drop your weight prematurely or throw up, the penalty is 17 burpees. Note: the only person we’ve ever seen throw up doing this was drinking seltzer water. Choose wisely!" The book-of-the-month is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, the F*CK is a 100lb. 1-mile ruck for time, and the Rucking and Additional Challenge is, "Each week for the month of July, ruck 1 heavy mile. Every week, the weight increases." We knocked out the Beer Mile 'workout', modifying with a half a beer with each quarter mile. I have completed the first and second week's ruck with a 45 lb. plate in my ruck the first week, and an extra 10 lbs. for the second ruck. The book has been ordered.

Mind/Spirit/Centering/Health: I'm still rereading The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön, and Death Without Denial, Grief Without Apology: A Guide for Facing Death and Loss by Barbara K. Roberts. Supportive people are still touching base with me.

In Case of Zombies/Disaster Preparation: I'm continuing Jim Cobb's Countdown to Preparedness book/assignments. Week 19 was about health maintenance issues. I have scheduled all of my medical, dental, and eye appointments. Week 20 is networking, and I'm pretty good there, for now. I participated in a Call-Down Drill, a test of the volunteer emergency notification system for the Multnomah County Medical Reserve Corps.

Maintenance/Shit Got To Be Done: Medical, dental, and eye appointments made. The Whorse is scheduled to be back from the specialty transmission mechanic next week.

Base Station/Ol' Number 3: The shop site is still being leveled and expanded even more for new concrete and retaining walls. Footers are being dug for the concrete, and permits are in progress. We've started working in the Pump House, and I've integrated The Old Man's tools into the Pump House toolboxes. I've also labeled the Pump House toolbox drawers. I'm still slowly moving some things back into the Gate House, and I have consolidated and updated Base Station's medical supplies. I'm still working on transferring the homeowner's insurance and the power bill.

Travel/Adventure/Doing Stuff: I am still at the Gate House part-time. I've decided not to go to the Oregon Country Fair this year; instead, I may take a road trip next week.

Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee

Friday, June 27th, 2025 03:49 pm
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This is a weird slipstream book that feels like it is trying to horn in on Nick Mamatas's territory sometimes.

Jonathan Abernathy is a lonely adult. He is an orphan, and his life is going nowhere. He goes and begs his old manager at the hotdog stand for a job because he desperately needs the money.

But he is working on a bigger project where he is a dream auditor. At night, he enters people's dreams and sucks away the bad parts so that they can be more productive. (This is the thing that feels Mamatas-like. People are doing weird things because of capitalism.) There are all sorts of things about the dream world that are unclear. What happens to the parts of the dreams that are sucked away? What happens to the lives of the people whose dreams have been changed?

He has a neighbor named Rhoda who has a daughter named Timmy, and sometimes Rhoda asks Jonathan to watch Timmy.

He likes her. He starts seeing her in dreams, but whose dreams are they? Which dreams are real?

gibus

Thursday, June 26th, 2025 08:37 am
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gibus (GI-buhs, JEE-buhs) - n., a collapsible top-hat, an opera hat.


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Invented in the 1840s by Antoine Gibus, who by the name you might correctly guess was French. I’ve seen these in old movies but hadn’t known what to call them.

---L.
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