rusty

one more of those things. probably sb really likes this cat, regardless of its temper, behaviour, size and other features.

iz ‘misiones draudzes ziņņahm’

fragments no 1936. gada Misiones draudzes ziņām

pievērsiet uzmanību ierakstiem uz saraksta beigām.

power games

this makes me angry.

people who are unable to solve their own power games, manipulations and stupidity.

i am not interested in who puts what flowers on my mother’s grave. or who removes the wilted flowers therefrom. i am not interested in family feuds. and, blast it, i am not interested in family manipulations. and next time sb starts this talk, i will pull their little wings off, whatever their colour.

the blind showing the way to the blind.

it looks like i am really angry.

academic nightmares

thus

there is this dream:

there are course descriptions like little boats floating in the air.

and then there comes a leaviathan, a white whale (like moby dick in the film), and jumps, and eats them.

and i wake up in horror.

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parallel to the course description revision, i read. currently – rereading the prince by machiavelli.

nothing is new under the sun.

of time machine and unrelated matters

things one might want but never has

• ontological metaphor for a pet
• cyberspace rocket
• anthropological ruler
• spirit guide for parties
• discriminator between justice and mercy
• a snark (but not a boojum)
• deconfuser for everyday situations

one of those things, apparently

so, i have finished grading the exam in, what a student accidentally called in a private email to me, hystery of english. it is rather a hilarious subject, as everyone might guess, full of surprises for sure.

today i was looking through the result analysis, and stumbled upon the simple question “who compiled the Oxford English Dictionary?” the answers included Samuel Johnson (correct, 88% of 227 attempts), Ben Johnson (long dead, or American, 4%), John Samuels (just for fun, 1%) and Joseph Smith. surprisingly many (7%) had clicked the answer ‘Joseph Smith’. who, if history be believed, compiled the book of mormon.

i wonder, what it might mean. probably just one of those things that happen in a multiple choice exam.

hilarious, as i said above.

useless things

• computer cat
• clamp for crocodiles
• sunbleach cream
• cottage cheese knife
• banquet for moths
• crew skeleton
• surprise funeral