Day: October 25, 2010

One fish, two fish, red fish, stamfish

Today was kind of weird, both a regular Monday and everything that comes with that, and almost a Friday, given that I’m off from work tomorrow. Unfortunately, it’s for a doctor’s appointment. I was originally going to be off this coming Friday, the start of a three-day weekend, but I rescheduled when I needed to make this appointment. That seemed easier than taking an additional half day this week, which also would have left me with one half-day less to use later on, in the likely event that I need to make any additional appointments.

So it’s kind of like Friday, although also not anything like it at all.

The word for the day on my Forgotten English desk calendar is “stamfish,” meaning “to talk in a way not generally understood.” I’ll leave it to you to decide how much I live up to the ideal in Matsell’s 1859 Rogue’s Lexicon.

Monday various

  • The Tea Party is a movement without a compass? Who could have guessed?

    In an unruly, unpredictable and chaotic election year, no group has asserted its presence and demanded to be heard more forcefully than the tea party. The grass-roots movement that was spawned with a rant has gone on to upend the existing political order, reshaping the debate in Washington, defeating a number of prominent lawmakers and elevating a fresh cast of conservative stars.

    But a new Washington Post canvass of hundreds of local tea party groups reveals a different sort of organization, one that is not so much a movement as a disparate band of vaguely connected gatherings that do surprisingly little to engage in the political process. [via]

  • Astronaut Uses Foursquare to Check In To Space Station. Oh noes! Does this mean one of his followers is going to use this opportunity to rob NASA? [via]
  • Can we just stop with the Battlestar Galactica spin-offs for a while? Personally, I like what I’ve seen of Caprica — just a handful of episodes, but then, I never did finish watching the original Ron Moore series — but with this new series planned to “take place 10 years into the first Cylon war,” I can’t think of another sci-fi universe that’s been this over-explored. Outside, say, of Dune.
  • An angry Leonard Nimoy writes to Gene Roddenberry in 1976. It’s funny, today blooper reels are pretty much par for the course on any television DVD set, but I can see Nimoy’s point.
  • And finally, could the world be heading towards a frightful kimchi shortage? [via]