We had a situation here in the penthouse this week, apparently due to the announcement that we now accept anonymous submissions. Well, thank you very much, all of you, whoever you are, for the surfeit of, um, Quite Interesting Material. Unfortunately, we are not fluent in either Middle Farsi or Southern Latin, and the translation slog gave us a mild headache and then it started raining exactly where the roof leaks. Major system breakdown. So we trundled over to the Bath and Idea Center, and sought relief with staff philosopher and leading Kierkegaardian, Shirley Knott, while marinating in a languid sauna.
The existential soak abstracted the whole ersatz reality syndrome complex. We would like to report that we lived happily ever after; however, that seems a bit premature, because it’s been only about twenty-three minutes since we dried off (most places) and ascended back to the penthouse, where the first question we now face (in real time, ha-ha) is why isn’t the th in penthouse pronounced as a diphthong? (You know, like pen-thouse.)
Breaking News: Press down on the option key and hit the exclamation point (top left) and look! ¡ Maybe that’s too small. Here, look again: ¡¡¡¡¡ It’s an exclamation mark or point!¡!¡!¡ But it’s upside down. It’s better upside down. It’s more exclamatory, dontcha think? A lot of things are better upside down¡¡ Plus, that’s how they exclaim in Spain¡¡ And a lot of things are better in Spain¡¡¡
Es muy verdad¡¡¡ ¡¡¡¡
Fictionary Friday: Words You Need. Most
days.
Gigglebyte (gig elle bite) Noun: A database for goofballs.
In a sentence:
The Brexit conundrum has been bollixed beyond the bounds of Britain by brainiacs bamboozled by gigglebytes.
Fizzdom Friday: from our collection of favorite quotes.
"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all."
-- John Cage
Wikipedia Friday Favorite: In honor of the intersection of curiosity and logarithmically expanding human knowledge, we offer a weekly favorite obscure Wikipedia page. This week, we share a link that explains a lot of the bulk of the drift, especially to anyone who has been
sauna-tized at the Bath and Idea Center:
Reader Reply of the Week:Thanks to Tom Kelley of beautiful Morro Bay, California, we have one word to say to everyone, sauna or no sauna:
Crespusculefrenia!
Our etymologists will be deconstructing it all weekend, and it wouldn’t hurt anyone’s feelings if you could help a little.
Friday Fluff:
Please do join us in celebrating North American Dry Paint Week. Wet paint gets all the attention, and wet paint is the big fat problem. Dry paint is so not a problem it’s pathetic. So we’re gonna celebrate the Week by posting DRY PAINT stickers on all the dry paint, to appreciate how unsticky it is, and whatever doesn’t have a sticker at the end of the weekend will
be considered wet. And: Hit "Reply" to send us your Fictionary, Fizzdom, Fluff or Wiki! Random thoughts and flights of fancy are welcome. (We honor requests for wild applause and adulation.)
All the best, see ya soon, write if you (do) or (do not) have an idea in a bath or a center.
