Two So True

You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.
~ Gerald Barzan

Get the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
~ Frank Dane

Behind the Name

From the website:

Names. Everyone has one, most people have a vague idea what their own means, but few give them much more thought. The study of names is called onomastics, a field which touches on linguistics, history, anthropology, pyschology, sociology, philology and much more.

When people refer to the "meaning of a name", they are most likely referring to the etymology, which is the original literal meaning. This website looks at the etymology and history or all types of given names.

Michael

From the Hebrew name מִיכָאֵל (Mikha'el) meaning "who is like God?". This is a rhetorical question, implying no person is like God. Saint Michael was one of the seven archangels in Hebrew tradition and the only one identified as an archangel in the Bible. In the Book of Revelation in the New Testament he is portrayed as the leader of heaven's armies, and thus is considered the patron saint of soldiers.

The popularity of the saint led to the name being used by nine Byzantine emperors, including Michael VIII Palaeologus who restored the empire in the 13th century. It has been common in Western Europe since the Middle Ages, and in England since the 12th century. It has been borne (in various spellings) by rulers of Russia (spelled Михаил), Romania (Mihai), Poland (Michał), and Portugal (Miguel). Other more modern bearers of this name include the British chemist/physicist Michael Faraday (1791-1867) and basketball player Michael Jordan (1963-)

Astronomical or Economical

There are 10¹¹ stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
- Richard Feynman

Irina, You Scheme-a!

Hello.

Please, do not be surprise - this letter is not a spam one.

You will probably be amazed of the fact that I am writing you an e-mail. Yesterday I myself was amazed too, when saw your letter in my e-mail box. The letter was about love and sensations among people. The motto of the letter was like this search for love and you ll become happy. I liked this letter very much. There was a list of e-mails where I found yours. I decided to write you. Maybe you are seeking love too? Maybe it s our destiny?

I do not know actually who was the person that had sent me that e-mail and how did he get my e-mail address. I think it is not important. The most amazing thing is that I can write you. I would like to know more about you. Providing that it is me who is the first to write, I want to say some words of my personality.

My name is Irina. I am 30 years old. I have never been married and have no children. I am cute, calm, kind and sociable. I think it is interesting to talk with you and discover new features of yours Discover you as a person. I am a serious woman and I am looking for serious relations. For me it means no deception, no double jokes. I am looking for a real person who will manage to love and respect me. I hope you are searching for your love, too.

I do not think that in love-relations age and appearance have any importance. The chief factor for me is ability to love and respect seriously! I have lots of hobbies and interests in life. Among them you will find sport, cooking, books reading and definitely music. I am going crazy about housekeeping and house holding. I like tiding up and general cleaning. I am keen on experimenting in my kitchen. I love changes.

I am fond of animals and prefer to lead a healthy lifestyle, thus, I do not smoke or use alcohol. Hey, my new pen-friend. What can you tell me about yourself? I want to learn more about you. In my future letter I will describe my character and my personality more precisely. Definitely, I will send you some of my photographs. It will help you to understand who I am and where I live. My photos will reveal all parts of my life my happiness, my pensiveness and sometimes melancholy.

Please reply only to my personal e-mail: lovelykitty1978@gmail.com

I am looking forward to your reply. I am really interested in knowing you better.

Remember of me.
Your new friend,
Irina.



Dear Irina,

The last time you wrote me, your name was Anastasiya. What's up with that?

Thanks for the photo, though. I particularly like them with less clothes. You can keep sending these mails if you put in pics like the one above and I don't even care if you're lying about your name.

Regards,
Mike

P.S. I'm annoyed that I forgot to put in your "real" address. Oh well, I'm sure I'll get another one or two or three or four hundred from you where I'll get a chance to look into the "details" and get the address from which it really came so I can publish it and get the spambots to deluge your inbox. For the meantime, I'll have to use this one: lovelykitty1978@gmail.com that you want poor slobs like me to reply to. Well, poor slobs like me, just more desperate and dumber.

Balldroppings

BallDroppings

BallDroppings instructions:

Turn your sound up.
Draw lines on the black screen to bounce the balls.
Enjoy the music.

longueur

longueur \long-GUR\, noun:
A dull and tedious passage in a book, play, musical composition, or the like.

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Almost every post in this blog is a longueur, especially when I waffle on about something.

I could make my posts less lengthy, but then they'd just be a shortueur longueur.