Does bear_music know everything?

Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon

08/30/2005 06:08:42 PM · #26

Originally posted by mk:

Dear bear_music,

I am a new homeowner. Since moving into my house, two things have happened.

1. A number of lights have mysteriously stopped working. They are in various locations of the house, none of which are connected by walls. We are on a fuse system but replacing the fuses does not fix the problem. The light bulbs are not blown out. What is wrong with my lights?

2. Last night, while I was away, the dishwasher "exploded," shooting water out onto the kitchen floor which then leaked into the basement. Before it did this, it made a sound that I am told might remind one of an earthquake. Even after shutting the dishwasher off, the water continued to spray out until the water main was shut off. What is wrong with my dishwasher?

Signed,
Poor owner of house crap

I donnoi about your lights, dear (my knowledge is seldom that practical) but for sure your dishwasher blew a hose or a connector, the water line was spraying directly into your hosue thru the dishwasher.

This is getting silly though. I'm not entirely comforetable with all this.

R.

Riponlady

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35

08/30/2005 07:06:55 PM · #27

Originally posted by bear_music:

Originally posted by Riponlady:
since you are such a great trivial pursuit player, Bear, do you know, (without going to google or a dictionary) where the word trivia comes from and why it means what it means?

:)
P

I damned well ought to know that, with like seven years of Latin under my belt.

"Trivium" (plural trivia) is Latin for crossroads, and in Medieval Universities the lowest level of the liberal arts (of six or seven, I believe) was called the "trivium", and was devoted to grammar, rhetoric, logic, stuff like that.

R.

Ah yes but.... the crossroads was where the Romans used to post information that might be useful to people passing by, hence the use of the word trivia for all those bits of info people like you and me tend to pick up!

(I just KNEW this would be useful at some point of my life!!!! hee hee hee)
:)
P

wewillexplore

Canon EOS-1D Mark II

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

08/30/2005 07:13:30 PM · #28

Do you sign - ASL? :) I'd read before you are deaf - was it since birth? In my non-photography job, I am a relay operator.

08/30/2005 11:00:06 PM · #29

Originally posted by mavrik:

Do you sign - ASL? :) I'd read before you are deaf - was it since birth? In my non-photography job, I am a relay operator.

Nope. I'm a lipreader. I used to use relay operators, but haven't used the TDD since the 'net came along... I can even talk :-) Hell, I taught at UCSD, and did internal education for a software company. I taught seminars and classes, often on "communication", believe it or not. It's been a strange career path for a deaf guy. And, oh, I was deafened at age 2 and a half, meningitis.

R.

Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM

08/30/2005 11:07:50 PM · #30

Originally posted by Riponlady:

That's interesting, I'd never encountered that aprticular factoid. So I went googling, found out a little more.

Interestingly enough, the "trivium" I had translated as "crossroads" is constructed of the words for "three" and "road", and the trivium/crossroads was a place where three roads met. Here's the story:

One variation dates to early Latin, from the prefix tri-, "three", and via, "road". Trivium thus meant "the meeting place of three roads, especially as a place of public resort." In the Roman empire, a trivium would often have a tavern (Latin: taverna).

In Roman times, such a place was viewed as common and vulgar, in the sense that we express in the phrase the gutter, as in "His manners were formed in the gutter." The Latin adjective triviālis, derived from trivium, thus meant "appropriate to the street corner, commonplace, vulgar."

The first known usage of the word "trivial" in Modern English is from 1589; it was used with a sense identical to that of triviālis. Shortly after that trivial is recorded in the sense most familiar to us: "of little importance or significance." Gradually, the word trivia came to be applied for any information that is of fleeting importance and of general interest.

Same article goes on to say:

Another, slightly different use of trivium may be more directly related to the modern meaning of the word, the earliest known use of which in English is in a work from 1432-1450. This work mentions the "arte trivialle", a reference to the three liberal arts that made up the first three subjects taught in medieval universities, namely grammar, rhetoric, and logic. The remaining four liberal arts of the quadrivium, namely arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy, were more challenging. Hence, trivial in this sense would have been "of interest only to an undergraduate".

So that's two versions. And I like your version best of all, it has a certain poignancy that appeals to me. Strangers passing in the night, leaving "trivia" behind.

Thanks for prompting me on this little journey :-)

R.

Joey Lawrence

PhaseOne P45

08/30/2005 11:08:42 PM · #31

Originally posted by bear_music:

That's amazing, next you're going to be the lead singer in a band?

Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM

08/30/2005 11:11:18 PM · #32

No, people literally start yelling at me, and sometimes resort to physical intervention, whenever I am foolish enough to sing. I'm a poet though... Does that count?

R.

Joey Lawrence

PhaseOne P45

08/30/2005 11:12:46 PM · #33

Originally posted by bear_music:

I'm a poet though... Does that count?

Definatly

KaDi

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

08/30/2005 11:33:14 PM · #34

Bear! It's a ruse! You're being kept busy over here while your real mission is going unattended!

Do not be swayed by these hem pullers! Their inquistive nature will not be quelled! Their laudations are but empty shells that echo with the wind of the sea!

(IOW, we know you know 'everything'--now get back to your work.)

--luv you, bear! ;-)

wewillexplore

Canon EOS-1D Mark II

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

08/30/2005 11:33:30 PM · #35

Originally posted by bear_music:

Very cool of you to share some of your story. One of my supervisors became deaf cuz of meningitis too. I think she was 3 or 4. Her husband is deaf but both of her kids are hearing. (That'd make for interesting conversations at dinner!)

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

08/30/2005 11:37:24 PM · #36

The kids got away with ALL kinds of crap at dinner, since their mom worked nights... I'm pretty sure they did anyway :-)

R.

wewillexplore

Canon EOS-1D Mark II

08/30/2005 11:40:23 PM · #37

maybe true - but if you're a good lipreader, they probly DIDNT get away with stuff at 20 feet that I could mumble and my mom wouldn't HEAR. So they got theirs...

Dad: "Eat ur veggies!"
Kids: *nod nod*
Kids mumble: "hate damned veggies!"

Dad to kids 20 feet away: "I SAID COME HERE!!"
Kids mumbling: "What if I dont wanna damn come over there."
Dad to kids still 20 feet away: "THEN I WILL COME GET YOU!"
Kids: :0

Olympus 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 Zuiko Digital ED

08/30/2005 11:47:54 PM · #38

if with every 4 steps i take forward, i fall back 2 steps, and i need 2 minutes to take 30 steps, how long do i need to reach the moon from the russian space station? hehe

Message edited by author 2005-08-30 23:50:15.

bcoble

Olympus E-300 EVOLT

08/31/2005 12:18:33 AM · #39

Originally posted by bear_music:

Originally posted by bcoble:
Here is a good one. Who produced the Velvet Underground Album which two of the songs were Elenore Rigby and Herion. Hint the man is dead now and was a artist. I think New York was his home (not sure). Does Soup come to mind?

That one I actually know; Andy Warhol was intimately associated with Velvet Underground.

R.

Good job!!!!!!!

muckpond

Nikon D200

Sigma 15mm f/2.8 EX Diagonal Fisheye for Nikon

08/31/2005 12:19:40 AM · #40

Originally posted by karmat:

What bear_music doesn't know (if anything), GeneralE is sure to!!!

08/31/2005 12:41:38 AM · #41

Originally posted by shadow:

if with every 4 steps i take forward, i fall back 2 steps, and i need 2 minutes to take 30 steps, how long do i need to reach the moon from the russian space station? hehe

Depends on how long your stride is, and whether you can walk on vacuum. More data needed, please :-)

R.

Canon EF 28-70mm f/2.8L USM

08/31/2005 01:51:16 AM · #42

Originally posted by bear_music:

Originally posted by shadow:
if with every 4 steps i take forward, i fall back 2 steps, and i need 2 minutes to take 30 steps, how long do i need to reach the moon from the russian space station? hehe

Depends on how long your stride is, and whether you can walk on vacuum. More data needed, please :-)

darn... you beaten my trick question :)

BeeGee

Canon EOS-20D

08/31/2005 02:34:08 AM · #43

also, what Russian space station?

The MIR came down a while ago and the one that's up there now, still, is the ISS, the INTERNATIONAL space station.

Not to mention the fact that the distance between these things and the moon varies greatly...

I know, I should shut my smartass mouth ;-)

Canon EF 28-70mm f/2.8L USM

08/31/2005 02:35:13 AM · #44

Nah, keep sticking it to him. He deserves it with his weirdo trick questions :-)

R.

BeeGee

Canon EOS-20D

08/31/2005 02:51:49 AM · #45

Like your attitude, Bear!

A fellow Bear :-)

Canon EF 28-70mm f/2.8L USM

08/31/2005 02:57:33 AM · #46

Originally posted by bear_music:

Nah, keep sticking it to him. He deserves it with his weirdo trick questions :-)

hmph! then try this! How many bear_music does it takes to change a light bulb? :)

BeeGee

Canon EOS-20D

08/31/2005 03:04:18 AM · #47

what a lame one, can you hear those bears snoring?

I hear myself, don't know about you, Rob - can you only sense when you're snoring as a deaf person or do you actually sort of hear it, as it's an "internal" sound?

Message edited by author 2005-08-31 03:04:40.

kevrobertson

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

08/31/2005 03:50:12 AM · #48

Question: If my wife and i are having a disscussion, Can i win?