The Last Word

[Cancer]

I.e., lunch = 2.

[Bazza]

Solve for lunch.

[L. Marcus]

Breakfast Time!

[Bazza]

Idea: Edwin Javis & Alfred Pennyworth are both British Intelligence agents. They are alumni of a British Intelligence School to train butlers to infiltrate American high society. A butler is a perfect disguise, no one would suspect them.

[Cancer]

As long as all you want to spy on are self-indulgent multimillionaires who have no interest in overthrowing a social and political system built to support them at everyone else's expense, it works fine. If you want to spy on the billions who literally die slowly to support the above ... seems ineffective.

[L. Marcus]

But is it efficient?

[Cancer]

Only if you make them assassins as well as spies. Assassins generally don't like anywhere near as long as spies do, so the total dollars spent is lower.

[L. Marcus]

But who could be so nefarious as to want to assassinate a playboy billionaire?

[Cancer]

Someone in his will?

[L. Marcus]

No?!

[Bazza]

Eratosthenes' Geography
Fragments collected and translated, with commentary and additional material

 

This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes. In this work, which for the first time described the geography of the entire inhabited world as it was then known, Eratosthenes of Kyrene (ca. 285-205 BC) invented the discipline of geography as we understand it. A polymath who served as librarian at Alexandria and tutor to the future King Ptolemy IV, Eratosthenes created the terminology of geography, probably including the word geographia itself. Building on his previous work, in which he determined the size and shape of the earth, Eratosthenes in the Geographika created a grid of parallels and meridians that linked together every place in the world: for the first time one could figure out the relationship and distance between remote localities, such as northwest Africa and the Caspian Sea. The Geographika also identified some four hundred places, more than ever before, from Thoule (probably Iceland) to Taprobane (Sri Lanka), and from well down the coast of Africa to Central Asia.

 

This is the first collation of the more than 150 fragments of the Geographika in more than a century. Each fragment is accompanied by an English translation, a summary, and commentary. Duane W. Roller provides a rich background, including a history of the text and its reception, a biography of Eratosthenes, and a comprehensive account of ancient Greek geographical thought and of Eratosthenes' pioneering contribution to it. This edition also includes maps that show all of the known places named in the Geographika, appendixes, a bibliography, and indexes.

 

 

 

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9182.html

[Cancer]

Sometime I will have to find that and read it. It does seem like the kind of thing our library will acquire reflexively.

[Narf the Mouse]

Zenzizenzizenzic.

[Cancer]

Zuben El-genubi!

[L. Marcus]

Zauberflöte!

[Pariah]

Um...zirconium?

[Cancer]

Zymurgy!

 

I own (literally inherited) a t-shirt purporting to be from the University of Coupeville [WA] Department of Zymurgy. I can't seem to find images of it on the web, so I will have to take a pic and post it sometime.

[Bazza]

Zyme

[L. Marcus]

Zen, indeed.

[Pariah]

You Swedes make good chocolate, I'll give you that.

[L. Marcus]

We like sweets. Which brand have you tried?

[Pariah]

The stuff they have at IKEA. Good stuff, especially the dark chocolate.

[L. Marcus]

I cannot abide dark chocolate. Dairy choc, with nuts, is my cuppa tea.

[Pariah]

IKEA's milk chocolate with hazelnuts is also pretty good. I'm more a dark chocolate guy overall, though.

[L. Marcus]

Is it Marabou, by any chance?