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after four days doing a literature review for my thesis proposal...

mood: tired tired
...I come up with a flimsy rationalization for not doing it for the next five minutes: I must educate my friends and family instead!

For the second time today, I have run across my new Arcane Word Of The Day: desiderata!

Okay, now back I drag me back to my regularly-scheduled programming...

Posted on Jan. 12th, 2006 at 11:35 pm | | Leave a comment | 8 comments |

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coffeebeanben

Not only a great word, but my late grandmother's favorite poem.
Posted on Jan. 13th, 2006 03:22 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

reveilles

Cool, but the link is dead...
Posted on Jan. 13th, 2006 05:24 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

jd3000

How about this?

-JD
Posted on Jan. 13th, 2006 05:40 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

reveilles

Oh, that's beautiful and wise! Thank you!
Posted on Jan. 15th, 2006 11:46 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

heelgrabber

Arcane?

I'm a big fan of that word. It's got a nice ring to it. I think I first came across it in ET Jaynes's book on probability when he discusses the "desiderata" for a calculus of plausible reasoning. Good stuff!
Posted on Feb. 10th, 2006 10:31 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

reveilles

Re: Arcane?

ירד Ἰάκωβος

What does mean? It's Hebrew and Greek.

Took me a bit to figure out who you are. :) Fairly accurate user pic. :)
Posted on Feb. 14th, 2006 08:50 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

heelgrabber

Re: Arcane?

The Hebrew is YRD, or Jerod, and the Greek is Iakobos, or Jacob, which comes into English from Late Latin Iacomus as James, which is my middle name. The whole sordid story is here.
Posted on Feb. 19th, 2006 10:11 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

reveilles

Re: Arcane?

Ah. Thanks. I need to get me a class on how to read and pronounce Greek someday. I've already got the Hebrew. :)

I was named after a Harlequin Romance character. At least your namesake was a cool guy with strong moral fiber and a cowboy hat. I think mine was agonizing about which of two cute guys to bust a bodice over.

And my name means "mother ewe". Baaa.

There is a similar name-related post on my blog.
Posted on Feb. 21st, 2006 05:37 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply