They just keep crawling out of the woodwork ...

I've no problem with God. It's his fan club that has me worried.

Goings On

Travel - Off the road right now. Hey, it's Christmas.

Shopping - Now have all but two presents wrapped and under the tree.

Reading - Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman page 189

Thoughts on Thoughts

I thought of something I wanted to write. I thought it was something profound. But then, when I actually started writing it, it seamed so trite. So, that one goes back in the oven for a while. Maybe the soufflé will rise, and maybe it won't. Only time will tell......

Home Again... Home Again... Jigity Jig...

Some things I learned while in New Jersey -

1. Snow is fickle. It decides when, where, if, and for how long it will fall; and there's nothing you can do about it.

2. Whoever came up with toll roads was either insanely brilliant or insanely crazy. Either way, he was insane.

3. A house is a place you live in. Home is a place that lives in you.

Also, finished Neil Gaiman's American Gods while waiting for my flight at the airport; wonderful book.

ttfn

On Being Unique

You-nique, I-nique
he-nique, she-nique
we all nique in one way or another
it just shows on some of us more than others
dass'all

What's going on and what's in a name

Travel - Went to VA. this week. Going to NJ. next week. Maybe going to OH. after the holidays , or not. No, I'm not independently wealthy. I travel for work.

You can see photos of my travels, and other stuff, on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannon-vaughan/

As for the name Codex Ostraca, it's a phrase I came up with to describe the Internet.

Codex is a medieval Latin word for a book with separate pages bound together, like the ones we have today, as opposed to a single scroll.

Ostraca is the singular of ostracon. It's a rock or potsherd which someone has written something on. People in antiquity used ostracon to write short notes, receipts for goods, ballots, magic spells and formulas, etc.; in other words all the stuff of everyday life. They wrote on ostracon because the stray rock or potsherd was much less expensive and more readily available than the parchment or vellum that the books and scrolls of the day were written on.

So, the Internet is humanity having a go at taking all of our individual ostraca with all of their varied sizes, shapes, textures, etc. and trying to bind them all together into one coherent codex.


Anyway... this codex will soon fill up with my posts, diatribes, rants, raves, likes, dislikes, general pontifications and other such ostracon.

Let the floodgates be opened.... : )