Tuesday, January 01, 2008

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. --Robert Frost

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Some fun words from Schott's Almanac Page-A-Day Calendar:

PSEud’S cornEr
Pseudaposematic..............animal markings which convey a false impression of danger
Pseudelephant.......................an animal resembling an elephant (e.g. a mastodon)
Pseudesthesia........................................................a sensory illusion
Pseudobreccia.............limestone which resembles breccia due to curious dolomitisation
Pseudocyesis.....................................................a phantom pregnancy
Pseudodox.........................................................an erroneous belief
Pseudohallucination......................a hallucination that one does not take to be true
Pseudoinsomnia...................where one dreams that one is awake and unable to sleep
Pseudolalia...........................................nonsensical babbling or gibberish
Pseudologer................................a systematic or compulsive teller of untruths
Pseudonym...............................a fictitious name (often assumed by an author)
Pseudogeusia..................................................a false sensation of taste
Pseudographia...................................................false writings or texts
Pseudomania.........................................an elaborate desire to lie or falsify


Alexandre Dumas fought his first duel, aged 23, but was hampered when his trousers fell down (1825)
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. --Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"