New digs! Thanks to M. for the fancy upgrade and useful advice on how to meddle with it. The header is a picture I took two weeks ago — the Cascades at sunrise from upstairs. (Easy to see why we wanted the deck!)
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The word swarthy is excellent, no? But did you know swart is a word? Adventuring along in KOL (in the Obligatory Pirate’s Cove) this comes up:
This is a very swarthy pirate. His swart knows no bounds. That’s actually what swarthy means: full of swart. Seriously. Look it up.
And, for real, it does.
How about that!
STOCHASTIC
Here’s a word I’ve been practically surrounded by here in the library for the last ten years, and never looked it up before. It is an excellent word.
According to OED:
1. Pertaining to conjecture. Now rare or Obs.
2. a. Randomly determined; that follows some random probability distribution or pattern, so that its behaviour may be analysed statistically but not predicted precisely; stochastic process = random process s.v. RANDOM a. 1b.
etc.
Style points to anyone who can find an everyday usage outside the context of math or computing.
Runner-up: coyoteo. Coyoteo is fun to say.
Terrible phrase of the day:
monster splinter
Sounds like something one might encounter in KOL‘s Spooky Forest. Yikes!
