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

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.