Even Bits
I am sorry, I could not resist the name of even bits after last weeks odd bits. Nothing to worry about if you did not get it. In fact, if you are concerned about people thinking you are are nerd, geek, or otherwise and you did not get this, then at least you do not qualify from a technology and computer standpoint to be a such. Anyway, that being said, I am once again making notes as the week goes along given that I liked the way that worked last week for the observations post. And indeed I had a couple of those today and hopefully will follow with a few more through the Christmas holiday.
… time passes …
With the holidays I did ad many to this, but it is now the New Year (and a good happy prosperous one to you) and I am getting back to the blog full force. I have a few to add this and will probably send it on out shortly.
- feckless – a new word that I learned this week, that is apparently accepted in some dictionaries, an adjective meaning something like of little value or worth. As in: That feckless piece of crap, is not good for anything. That begged the question of is feck itself a word and further does it convey a meaning an object worth something? Is it a noun in that case? Or to feck being a verb, which actually does not make sense. The only references found referred it as being such, coming from Irish or Scottish origins (yeah, right!) and meaning in one case an object of value, the other several verbs meaning a variety of things, including the current slang for feck that we have all seen in the context of what the feck? In truth, I could find little that sustains the claim of an old word root in there and feckless itself seems to trace to a British sitcom in the 1990′s at best.
- For anyone wondering for a couple of reasons the trip to Louisiana for New Years was put on hold, so I have been at home the last couple of days (and the coffee shop) just knocking out several things that need to be done. Taking a break today to watch some football and such, but will be right back on it and will hopefully get a bunch of stuff done with five days to work on things.
- Never noticed before and can’t believe a I have missed it, but those black things on the wall here at the Hub that are used to hold the artwork are very cleaver usage of cattle panels. Not sue that I have those in mind for designs anytime soon, but it does give rise to some thoughts of thinking outside of the box in regards to design.
- New Years Eve was an occurrence of a blue moon. A couple of things about those, as it struck me the way they were talking about it so much. First, blue moons are officially the 2nd full moon in a month (and by very nature usually falls very near to if not the last day of the month. They occur about once every two to two and half years. For one to fall on New Years eve it is about every twenty or so years, the last one being in 1990. They are called blue moons because of a mistaken label in the 1940′s that stuck and the phrase once in a blue moon originated after some volcano put ash in the atmosphere and gave the general local a moon with a bluish tint – given the rarity of the volcano’s eruptions…
- Had a discussion last night with a friend about athletes and what meets that tag for most people. Curious as to thoughts others have on the subject. This came up because of a guy doing a stunt jump in a car for a record distance being called an athlete – questionable at best we both thought. What about a Nascar driver, intense focus, endurance, even strength combined with fines to hold a car in the turns? I am a maybe, but probably not really. What about a jockey at the top level of horse racing? What about the riders (regardless of discipline) that doing top level horse riding (like Olympics, Three-Day eventing, or even the reigning and such at that kind of level)? I have been on some courses used for like the Rolex and with my seeming willingness to push stupidity on horseback sometimes I am not sure I would be dumb enough to go over some of those jumps even if I were trained correctly for it. And of course this brings me to the one near to my personal views – what about medieval reenactors? I know some folks doing the ground fighting stuff that are as awesome, quick, focused, and will take most anyone down as any multi-martial arts fighter is capable of doing? What about my specific forte, the jousting? I know I am out of shape, but it gets better during the season, and certainly there is focus, training, skill, and maybe a bit of luck sometimes too. Thoughts?
- Anyone out there run Google Adsense or similar pay for click ad generation systems. A participant is of course bound from clicking on links present on their pages, but what if I clicked on yours and you clicked on mine? Or what if just every time you saw a page with such you clicked to help a Joe out? Eventually it would drive the price paid for click down significantly, but for a while it would boost everyone’s payouts. Not that I am suggesting it mind you, just thinking out loud.
- Running with that last thought a bit though, thumb me on stumble and share me on your facebook and I will do the same to you every chance I get. Lets grow some traffic together in the new year, shall we?
** – image from somewhere but what a crazy jump and I have seen some like that in person…
