Archive for July, 2006
Jul
28
2006
AWAD: Galen
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
To think we reached so high and yet fell so short. It’s been twenty-two years today - twenty-two long and hard years - since Lorraine walked out the […]
Jul
17
2006
Great Words: Skiamorph
Sometimes one stumbles across a great word whose previous unknowingness has been much lamented. I have often wished I had a word to call those things which technology has obsoleted but which we still insist on referring to - the ringing of a cellphone with no bell, etc. - and now I have one: skiamorph. […]