Evening. It's been a busy Monday. Have a bit of late night, bad-hair-day, silliness.
Here's a lovely thing.
"By and large", as in, "by and large, pizza is good", is a *nautical* expression, dating from the 18th shading back into the mists of the 17th century of English sailing ships.
"By" means "tending opposite the prevailing wind", and "large" means "tending with the prevailing wind".
So, "by and large" means "no matter which way your ship is headed relative to the wind".
I'm a poly-dork, and one of my dorkeries is language.
I cherish this fact.
Also, I cherish pizza.
Golden Crown
The sunset is sinking slowly behind the mountain ridge behind us to the south, casting a shadow across most of the peak in front of us. Only the tip is left in sunlight.
3:30pm in November: Stöng (2917 ft/889 m) between Berufjörður and Breiðdalur, eastern #Iceland.
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UK Politics, recession, Hunt, sweary
Jeremy Hunt responding to the news of the UK entering a recession with surprising accuracy.
"we can see light at the end of the tunnel".
Yes. It's called an election when we can finally tell you all to fuck off.
The Ukrainian navy is just trolling now: the original Major Kunikov died on February 14th, 1943. They literally waited until the anniversary of his death to sink his nautical namesake. https://kyivindependent.com/media-russian-landing-ship-allegedly-sunk-by-drones-in-black-sea/
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.