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Thursday, July 25, 2002

Word of the day(I know that makes two in one day, pedants): "tanstaafl"

Cicero would be appalled at your Latin gaffe; by all accounts he was a stickler for language. It's "De gustibus, non disputandum est."

Although, after a quick consultation with an acquaintance at Georgetown University with a stronger classical education than I possess, I was told that either "non disputandum est" or "non est disputandum" is technically acceptable; although "non est disputandum" would have a more literary effect by putting the emphasis on "disputandum" at the end - a literary characteristic of ecclesiastical Latin while the other variation is more commonly found in Vulgate Latin(the Manglish/Singlish of Latin).

Yes, I'm bored, so I shall bore you all too.

Argh. Work. Getting in the way of posting today's rather interesting experience with local law-enforcement. So shall hopefully have opportunity to post more anon.

BTW, I think I figured out how to link to that Asianprince page you wanted. Check back with me ASAP. And the ringtone I need composed is for a Nokia; the tune is available at http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Island/1996/macross_plus-myung_theme_cello.mp3. It's the cello version of the Macross Plus theme: "Voices" by Yoko Kanno. For the anime freaks, *yes* I know it's a cliched theme, but I still assert that the instrumental has mondo more intensity than the original.
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