Words are interesting

I love etymology. Not enough to be a philologist, but enough to be dangerous. Half the problems with words is determining intent, i.e. how the word was used.

Truth is, most words have more than one meaning and even certain types of words, say nouns, frequently get modified into verbs or gerundives.

With Ancient Greek it gets real tricky since one word can have hundreds of meanings. Take logos for example. It can mean word or book or Scripture or letter or...well you get the point.

So I'm googling some stuff around mood and the like and I see it ultimately comes from a Greek word, orge, which means anger. I then start to wonder if it's also the root of orgy. It turn out that orgy is associated with ergo, meaning to work, i.e. to work into a state of frenzy. Originally, it meant a singing and dancing festival for the gods that was fairly revelrous. But the o at the beginning of the word...

What I figure is that orgy was a combination of ergo, to work, and orge, full of mood possibly strongly and you literally have 'work up a mood.' Neat.

Playing with P Mode

So I dabble in photography. I have a pretty nice dSLR and an extremely solid point and shoot along with my iPhone which can be handy and take a surprisingly good picture in a pinch.

Nouns vs Verbs

The fundamental difference in the gay marriage debate is one side is arguing nouns, the other verbs. 

Habemus Papam

So the college of Cardinals selected an American and a Jesuit. I find this fascinating.

Watching a friend die

So I've been watching a friend die. Slowly. By alcohol. (graphic account follows)

First fisheye pics

Fisheye, a set on Flickr. Had some fun playing around with my new lens.

Before there was Sheldon Cooper...

There was David Byrne. The difference being, of course, is that while the actor playing Sheldon Cooper - Jim Parsons - may have some street cred because of the character he plays; David Byrne played basically himself observing a 'typical' Texas town on the eve of its sesquicentennial in his movie True Stories.

I need a better post

The last one sucked.