2018-04-18

cincinnatus_c: loon (Default)
2018-04-18 02:14 pm

So, today's Jays game is only available on facebook ...

1. "Over the last decade, the social-media platforms have been working to make the web almost irrelevant. Facebook would, in many ways, prefer that we didn’t have the internet. They’d prefer that we had Facebook." This is something I've been saying for a long time. Although what we're heading toward is having Facebook, Google, and Amazon (and, of course, their subsidiaries. Back in the five minutes when #deletefacebook was a thing (and I was thinking that making #nationalizefacebook a thing would be a funny idea), I saw something talking about people switching from facebook to instagram. Which is kinda like, keep your facebook hands off my instagram!)

2. Is facebook still just a platform and not a media company?

#notwatchingfaceball

Currently at Peterborough airport: 3.6.
cincinnatus_c: loon (Default)
2018-04-18 04:48 pm

Ruth and David

I guess how it works in Ruth with Boaz and the mystery brother (MB) who renounces his right to marry Ruth is like this: Boaz and MB are half brothers, sharing a mother (which I learned yesterday would make them "uterine brothers"); MB and Elimelech are full brothers, which is why MB is a closer relative(-in-law) to Ruth than Boaz is and so has first dibs on her. But MB is in the same position as Onan. )

And now, your word of the day (I mean, my word of the day) from etymonline.com!

lionize: "to treat (someone) as a celebrity," 1809 (Scott), a hybrid from lion + -ize. It preserves lion in the sense of "person of note who is much sought-after" (1715), a sense said to have been extended from the lions formerly kept in the Tower of London (proverbial from late 16c.) that were objects of general curiosity that every visitor in town was taken to see.

Currently at Peterborough airport: 2.2. High today: 4.3.