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Feb. 7th, 2006 05:00 pm* Last Thursday's tea was sparsely attended, but I expect numbers will fluctuate as Thursday Tea continues. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_star_fish and dooneling both denied that the word "behemoth" ever contained a second o, but I could swear that it was somehow originally behoemoth. Any etymologists want to back me up, or mock me? (Apparently it's derived from BHMT (beast) in Hebrew, just like Bahamut, which makes sense)(Okay, not literally BHMT, but I can't be bothered to find hebrew font EDIT-- But kassrachel can: בהמת )
* Saturday wasneurosophy's birthday party, where Zombification was ubiquitous. People were biting each other's arms, and I even got my skull gnawed. Thankfully, a scale model of a brain was conveniently on a nearby table for an unrelated science paper, so I thrust it at the zombie and made my escape.
* Sunday wassylvantechie's Bowl party, where I learned that even though vegetarian worcestershire sauce is clearly inferior to the real thing, it still makes very addictive chex mix. Also, squirrelhaven is secretly the owner of Really Bad Gum, Inc., the company that makes that really bad gum in all the baseball card packs and so forth.
* I fried burritos for my entire office yesterday to pay off food karma. Thirty-two burritos, down from the fifty I did last year, turned out to be roughly the right amount, though I still had some leftovers to have today.
* Meanwhile, cartoon controversy continues. Much has been written about it, from standard articles to those with historical perspective or even a panoply of foreign views from Global Voices. Of course, the best analysis of a political situation always comes from a humorist, and the Post's Gene Weingarten does not disappoint. That's a link to his chat, so search for "Toles" on the page to get to the meat. Why Toles? Because Muhammed isn't the world's only controversial cartoon at the moment.
the_star_fish and dooneling both denied that the word "behemoth" ever contained a second o, but I could swear that it was somehow originally behoemoth. Any etymologists want to back me up, or mock me? (Apparently it's derived from BHMT (beast) in Hebrew, just like Bahamut, which makes sense)(Okay, not literally BHMT, but I can't be bothered to find hebrew font EDIT-- But kassrachel can: בהמת )* Saturday was
neurosophy's birthday party, where Zombification was ubiquitous. People were biting each other's arms, and I even got my skull gnawed. Thankfully, a scale model of a brain was conveniently on a nearby table for an unrelated science paper, so I thrust it at the zombie and made my escape.* Sunday was
sylvantechie's Bowl party, where I learned that even though vegetarian worcestershire sauce is clearly inferior to the real thing, it still makes very addictive chex mix. Also, squirrelhaven is secretly the owner of Really Bad Gum, Inc., the company that makes that really bad gum in all the baseball card packs and so forth.* I fried burritos for my entire office yesterday to pay off food karma. Thirty-two burritos, down from the fifty I did last year, turned out to be roughly the right amount, though I still had some leftovers to have today.
* Meanwhile, cartoon controversy continues. Much has been written about it, from standard articles to those with historical perspective or even a panoply of foreign views from Global Voices. Of course, the best analysis of a political situation always comes from a humorist, and the Post's Gene Weingarten does not disappoint. That's a link to his chat, so search for "Toles" on the page to get to the meat. Why Toles? Because Muhammed isn't the world's only controversial cartoon at the moment.
