Thoughts - Cold Pasta Bake

[jack]

Pasta bake, clingfilmed and fridged, is still good the next day. In fact, very good -- I don't know about anyone else, but I do like my cooking, which is exceptionally staggeringly serendipitous. (I should cook it every weekend and eat it up through the week.)

Speaking of "serendipitous," how do people cope when they don't have a university sponsored subscription to OED.com? Do you pay cahs£money for a dictionary? Just muddle through guessing which vowels are which?

Speaking of which, finally another word of a day that's interesing. "Callipygous" means "having beautifully proportioned buttocks"; I intended to use it when buying peaches.

The other one I like if "lucubrate." As I've said before, I find it absurd that 'lucubrate' being just one word, can translate as working hard, pedanticly, pretentiously, perspiringly, or not, by night or candlelight!

Comments

[mair_in_grenderich]

linux has this handy tool called 'dict' ...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

*smack* Thanks. Now all I need to do is wait 'till wikidictionary's finished, and connotations are as freely greppable as denotations.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

How do I cope? By having been bought Chambers by parents and having...'acquired'...the Oxford Pocket Dictionary. They cover everything I need on a regular basis, and most things I need on an irregular basis. Failing that, I charge down to the college liberary when term starts again and look it up there.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

LOL. I remember print. And I love print. And I love libraries. But when I get emails from Dunstan I have to look up almost every other word, and electronic is just the only way to do that without breaking the flow.

BTW - freaky picture. Where's it from?

[mair_in_grenderich]

I also have a couple of real printed dictionaries. But i have had them a while, so i guess they won't have any modern words like "blogging" in. I rarely use them these days --- just not portable enough, and there's always t'interweb. But I kind of like the feel of them.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Funny, I never have been emotionally attached to physical dictionaries, however much I may love with all my heart some novels. I guess it's because I never used to care about spelling, and by the time I did, I was using dictionary.com.

[mair_in_grenderich]

I don't have them for spelling, I assume I can spell ;) I use(d) them for looking up definitions, looking for new words, words for scrabble or crosswords... playing with words :)

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

*goes to your LJ to check which pic it was, as she honestly can't remember* Aaah, Galadriel! Yeah, crazyca made that one for me as a thank you for betaing for her, along with various others that I've been using lately. *points*
*hugs her*

OED

[filecoreinuse.livejournal.com]

Steps to get OED (and more usefully, uber discount from Apple).

1) Get a SRCF account
2) ssh -L 8080:wwwcache.cam.ac.uk:8080 student.cusu.cam.ac.uk
3) Set web-browser's proxy to localhost
4) profit

Re: OED

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I'd *like* an SRCF account. But this involves having got a distinction last year, and I didn't, and I don't want a dictionary *that* much :)

Re: OED

[filecoreinuse.livejournal.com]

Or it involves having planned ahead :) -- or having friends with always on CUDN machines.

Re: OED

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Do I have friends with connected machines?

(By planning ahead do you mean doing more revision, or leaving a back door somewhere?)

Re: OED

[filecoreinuse.livejournal.com]

(By planning ahead do you mean doing more revision, or leaving a back door somewhere?)

I meant joingin the SRCF at some point during your 4 years in Cambridge :)

Re: OED

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I did. But don't they cancel the account when I leave? Their FAQ says they do...

Re: OED

[filecoreinuse.livejournal.com]

Only if they discover you're gone. Jennie's account is still valid for example, as is a friend of mine who graduated 2 years ago.

Re: OED

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Good point. My hermes hasn't vanshed yet, and I guess that should be the first to go.

Re: OED

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

> But this involves having got a distinction last year

It does?

Re: OED

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

As in Distinction = Funding for pure PhD = Remaining at CU = Allowed to have SRCF account.

[rochvelleth.livejournal.com]

'Callipygous' (which I gather can also be spelt 'callipygious', which is what I'm used to) is word I know and love. It's great being a Classicist :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

You could say, 'you love "beatifully proportioned buttocks" ' -- that'd be funny to say aloud :)

I know; I learn all my best words from arts students. Be more vocabularily obscure around me! :)