The classics department at Western Washington University has set up the first Census of Worldwide Latin speakers.
To all my classicist friends out there, register! Quod V minuta ad summum requiret.
Exspectatus ad primum Censum omnium hominum quavis e gente oriundorum accessisti. Census ab Universitatis studiorum Vasintoniae Occidentalis (WWU) professoribus institutus est, auspiciis Academiae Latinitati Fovendae (ALF) sodalium, duobus praesertim propositis:
* Ut homines, qui nostra aetate sermone Latino utuntur, adnumerentur; * Quo melius Latini sermonis usus atque condiciones, quae nostra aetate sunt, intelligantur.
Huius census indiciis decursu annorum descriptis, rite ordinatis, inter se comparatis demonstrari poterit utrum sermonis usus increbrescat necne, quibus in orbis terrarum regionibus sermo Latinus maxime usurpetur, qui libri ad eius studium saepius adhibeantur et alia.
Census Latinus alternis annis ab eisdem professoribus instituetur, et indicia in eo collecta in publicum edentur. Ab illis, qui respondere velint, nihil poscetur, quod ad vitam privatam pertineat. Talia enim nullo iure in Rete Universali exhibentur.
Here is an SNL oldie but a goodie inspired by this week’s hearings. This was when SNL was really good with the late Phil Hartman playing Senator Teddy Kennedy and Chris Farley playing Senator Howell Heflin. Remember Heflin from Alabama (Session’s predecessor)? This was the guy who when he was at a dinner and was about to sneeze reached into his pocket to pull out a handkerchief and out came a pair of panties. Ooops! The irony in this skit is now Senator Al Franken playing Senator Paul Simon.
In a speech at the Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner announced plans to open Microsoft stores in proximity to Apple stores. What will they sell? Xboxes, Zunes and boxes of software?
This is dissapointing. Apparently this was just a small kiss on the lips and it was not as if they were sucking face in the corner. I guess a little lip kiss is too much for the homophobic security guard to handle. According the story, the guard said, “that faggot stuff” isn’t allowed in the restaurant. The police later came and the dumbshit police officer told the guys they could be cited for “homosexual conduct.” This idiot cop ought to get hip to some case law, i.e. Lawrence v. Texas. Further, there is a city ordinance in El Paso banning discrimination based on sexual orientation by businesses open to the public.
I was just at this very Chico’s Tacos restaurant last week during my recent visit to my hometown of El Paso. Until Chico’s apologizes and rectifies this overreaction, I’ll have to pass on future visits.
As an aside, when I was there Saturday, the secruity guard was asleep at the wheel when it came to doing actual security work. There was a little girl, probably about 3 or 4 years of age, who had wandered out of the restaurant and there was no adult with her. I went out to try to get her back in and she walked further away outside. I went in to get the security guard to help find her parents and he was nowhere to be found. Finally I asked one of the guys behind the counter to help. Shitty parenting and shitty guarding. If you dare, however, to be a man kissing another man, forget it, they’ll kick you right the hell out.
Let’s get with the program, Chicos! Until you make good on this, I’m done with eating any more Chicos.
This is good to see. The House has voted overwhelmingly to rebuke President Obama’s recent signing statement attempting to ignore international aid payments as outlined in the bill. I despise these damn signing statements. I don’t care if it’s Bush or Obama, there is no constitutional or legal basis for them. The president has two options when a bill comes to his desk, sign it, veto it. (And yes there are other maneuvers by failing to sign allowing a bill to become law as well as the pocket veto which is a debatable manuver).
The president cannot pick and choose what to enforce. We don’t have a king, we have a president subordinated to law, at least in theory.
Good for the House. Shame on Obama for using a manuever used and abused by Bush.
The states of Colorado, New Mexico and Texas are joining together in seeking federal f unds for a high speed rail line between Denver and El Paso. Hmmm… this sounds pretty damn perfect for me for visits back to El Paso to visit the fam. I think they should call this the James Reyes Line. I’ll be buying the first ticket
The Independent has a very interesting piece on the failure of Internet advertising to deliver profitability for web properties. He uses YouTube as a prime example. This is a very enlightening piece on some serious monetization challenges facing the industry today.
