Friday, May 21st, 2004

Time	Event
10:06a	Rat-English Dictionary Harrap's Giant Paperback Rat Dictionary, Rat-English and English-Rat, with CD-ROM pronunciation guide. ee eee ['i:ii] v. tr. to stop grooming; ee eee, stop nibbling my head now. eee [iii] v. to stop; eee! stop that! eee e [iii:'i] v. to quit; eee e! quit it! eee ee ['ii:i] v. tr. to want; eee ee awp, I want that pea. eee ee ee [iii:'ii:i] v. to go away; eee ee ee eep! get out of the hammock now, it's my turn. eee eeee [ii:'iii] v. to leave; eek eee eeee, let's leave the vet's and never come back, okay? (via linguists -- not linguaphiles as I'd originally written) Also home of tips for laundering and ironing your rat, and other amusements. And while on small furry animals, I must promote The Exorcist re-enacted by bunnies in 30 seconds. (via frightened) And also! Marshmallow Bunny survival tests (via heppigirl in E2 chatterbox) Current Mood: amused Current Music: Chopin waltz op. 64 no. 2: Yevgeny Kissin (9 Comments | Comment on this)
11:09p	Ediacaran, Swazian, Dongganglingian, Clarkforkian Pleased with the news that Ediacaran has been adopted as the name of a new geological period (c. 600-540 Ma, from Snowball Earth to the Cambrian Explosion). Something to add to our traditional sing-song list: Ediacaran, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian... I like knowing such things. I like knowing that ununnilium has been given the official name darmstadtium (Ds). Then I looked up the new name and found so many subperiods and strata, here for example: so many adjectives, so many: Kinderhookian and Idwian and Festiniogian and Mohawkian and Erqiaoan and Arikareean and Hemingfordian and Thanetian and Sakmarian and Melekesskian and Nectarian... (2 Comments | Comment on this)

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