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' ...

[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.

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

[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 :)