Nope, no click-bait here: Yocto is very much a real word with a real meaning. So if you read no further, at least you can walk away better armed and prepared to score handsomely in your next Scrabble game when that relatively rare, coveted Y-tile (4 points!) lands on your letter rack. But if you’re…
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W for Write Me a Letter
In some ways I can relate to those born almost a hundred years ago. That generation found themselves traveling by horse-and-buggy (or bullock/camel cart, depending on the continent!), watched in amazement as the automobile , and then the airplane were invented – and finally as both went mainstream. Even better, most of them experienced the…
V for Venice
The winged lion in golden yellow at the center of the red flag is resting its paw on an open book. Pax tibi Marce evangelista meus – Peace to you, Mark, my evangelist – says the inscription on the book. St. Mark is everywhere in Venice, including on the Consiglio di San Marco, the flag…
From Aeaea to Zyzzyva
The dictionary. The encyclopedia. Mystery books by Sue Grafton. What do they all have in common ? Something quite basic, some would say even boring: they are all organized alphabetically. Sounds like a technique as good as any I suppose: not much thinking involved, and a fairly universal, common, neutral way to sort through a…
the thinking man 