whimsical happenstance

forbidden fruit.

michael has given me a plethora of new fonts, many of which are very tasty. thanks mike! i especially like this one that is all images--which look very spike & mike inspired. peeking at them all and deciding which fonts i wanted to download has taken most of the evening. but fear not! it is mardi gras, and i am sure that the drunken revelry will continue early into the morning (except for in somerville, as those puritanical bastards close everything at 1 am). i was helped out immensely by font book. that you, apple.

speaking of apple, if anyone wants to get me the mac mini for my birthday, i would be incredibly appreciative. hell, i will settle for an ipod of some sort--though i think that the ipod has killed the art of 'mix tape' creation much as video killed the radio star.

this post is brought to you by the word of the day from merriam-webster online, mostly because today's word is making me thirsty...



The Word of the Day for February 8 is:

rathskeller

   \RAHT-skell-er\   noun
     : a usually basement tavern or restaurant

Example sentence:
     Many workers from the town's mills and factories liked to
gather after hours at the rathskeller located underneath the
banquet hall.

Did you know?
     "Rathskeller" is a product of Germany, deriving from two
German nouns: "Rat" (also spelled "Rath" in early Modern
German), which means "council," and "Keller," which
means "cellar." The etymology reflects the fact that many early
rathskellers were located in the basements of "council houses,"
which were equivalent to town halls. (The oldest rathskeller
found in Germany today is said to date from the first half of
the 13th century.) The earliest known use of "rathskeller" in
English dates from 1766, but the word wasn't commonly used until the 1900s.
Although the German word is now
spelled "Ratskeller," English writers have always preferred the
spelling with the "h" -- most likely to avoid any association
with the word "rat."

posted by Megan at 5:32 PM