Day: April 7, 2004

I was reading my latest issue of MacAddict, and they made a reference to the forward-slash (/), calling it a “solidus”. I immediately had to look the etymology of the word up in the OED. So apparently, a solidus was a Roman coin worth 25 denarii. It later referred to a shilling, and then referred…

1: Grab the book nearest you, turn to page 18, find line four, and write what it says. “sketch or outline of Klingon grammar. Although a good many” It’s The Klingon Dictionary by Marc Okrand 2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first? The Washington, D.C. boxed…

just asked on a mailing list we’re both on if anyone could translate “In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming” into Klingon. Let me just run that by you once again: I am translating a phrase from the Lovecraftian mythos into Klingon. As in the race of honorable warriors from the Star Trek…