slow progress

Not for lack of want and surely not for lack of 'material', the training has been going slower than anticipated...

snow names

It's said that the Eskimos have hundreds of different names for snow.  I'm not really interested in names for snow.  I'm more interested in names in snow.  I thought about this during today's morning constitutional with Bruce:  how awesome would it be to teach him to write his name in the snow?  Very.  That's how awesome it would be.

Unfortunately, it's much harder than you might think.

cellar door

In the bracing world of 'phonaesthetics' (a word that only exists in the bracing world of 'phonaesthetics') the phrase 'cellar door' is considered the most generally appealing in the English language.  The research that went into this was categorically the best use of money ever.  It's probably also the most useless piece of information that I (and now you) know.

Of course, this hasn't stopped people from turning it into a name (Selador or Sellador).  This means that Hermit Hortense now has a definite competitor on my list of beautiful names.

Unfortunately, 'cellar door' doesn't sound nearly as well in Macedonian.  I'm also betting it's not as alluring when Stephen Hawking says it either.

perplexing question

I just read an article about a woman who stored the placentas from two separate child births for a couple of years.  This, while in and of itself is 100% completely normal, caught the attention of the media because she eventually decided to dispose of them on Maori land and (quote) "the method of disposal was not in keeping with Maori cultural protocols and the area was a place that Maori were unlikely to use for this purpose".

 

So, the question is: if you were to eat the placentas on Maori land, would that still be considered 'not keeping with Maori cultural protocols' and are the Maori sitting on an undiscovered gold mine in the placenta disposal market?

 

Also, does anyone actually believe that I'm serious about anything placenta related not being utterly disgusting?

The world is ending

The world must be ending b/c I finally joined Facebook. Things can only go downhill from here.