24 July 2014
bad verse and prose dept.: mer ténébreuse
mer tranchante
mon île devient un îlot,
la rupture mon lot.
mer ténébreuse
mon îlot devient une roche
du naufrage me délivrera
la fin qui s’approche.
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15 June 2014
ancient lineage - working hard or hardly working?
While our species seems to be about 150K years old, our genus stretches back ~2.4 million years and our subtribus to more than 4.4 Mya.
This is a good occasion to recall my nagging question, ... Read more
This is a good occasion to recall my nagging question, ... Read more
etymo note: Obsus, obsidian & habasha
Obsus, obsidian, ar./semitic ḥabasha.
However Abyssinia could be from the Greek a- (for negation) + byssos (depth), denoting a land in the far deep (south).
If Abyssinia's chief ancient export was from the Obsus, then it would indicate the whole country got its name from it.
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However Abyssinia could be from the Greek a- (for negation) + byssos (depth), denoting a land in the far deep (south).
If Abyssinia's chief ancient export was from the Obsus, then it would indicate the whole country got its name from it.
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13 June 2014
Sharp market research
This diagram from
http://www.sinus-institut.de/loesungen/microm-geo-milieus.html
that i’d come across seems insightful: socioeconomic partitions vs. sociopolitical attitudes or inclinations.
I'm afraid, so far, the diagram is reproduced here without the authors' or publishers' (Sinus institut) permission.
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07 June 2014
bad verse and prose dept.: blue sun
the sun rises in radiant blues,
with sadness ensnares my sight,
consumes me in its hues. ... Read more
