Monkey Raptor V.2

I was on ChatGPT discussing the history of circus. Specifically the trained animals. We traced that back to the Roman Empire legacy. The venationes . There's nothing family-friendly about the show at all. But it was about animals... and humans doing "entertaining acts" 🤦‍♂️ The interesting finding was that the Roman Empire collapsed around 5th century, and the circus resurfaced (with, of course, family-friendly theme) in around 18th century. Assuming we believe what they wrote there as history 😂 Aside from the jest, that is indeed a long gap, more than one thousand years! So then I concluded the Roman collapse as... Too large to manage, and too many internal conflicts, I suppose. The mind wants to hold everything, but the hands just aren't that size... Then we discussed the most suitable figure of speech related to the collapse. This is the most suitable one I guess. Biting off more than you can chew. Because there were many figure of spee...

Here's an idea for a brand for machine oil. It was started by a random thought of mine while watching a movie with some cars and conversations in it. Well, most movies have those. Except movies without cars and conversations of course. It really rolls off the tongue. Turmoil Oil, Turmoil Oil, Turmoil Oil — say it fast.

Hello! It has been more than four years since the last post about my absurd chess playing. Chess or any other kind of duel — a match between two opposing sides — has three outcomes if you think about it. Win, lose, or draw. Sure, and? Well, the psychological element. 🤔 Hm... Let it hangs there like proper wet clothes on a rope. Anyway, I've wandered around looking at Blogger UI latest version. Neat updates! My compliments to the Blogger team! 👏 I will update some of the ornaments here. Alright then, have a great day! See you around.

Hey everybody, long time no see. This was a 3 minutes game of Blitz(krieg) at lichess.org as "Anonymous". I played defence side, the black pieces. The first two moves, e4 replied with h5 is called Goldsmith defense. So, basically I didn't know that until I played it. This was interesting. You might wanna look at it. And oh, I offerred draw first, but because my opponent refused it, I resigned, because of reasons. You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on the chessboard. But first, click the board.

What? Just regular fish. Did you mean 'why'? Fine. Why Is a Group of Fish Called School? There are two schools in English. Same writing, same pronunciation, but each has its own meaning and origin. School 🏫 The school that we use to refer an education institution is a Greek origin . Skholē (σχολή), meaning idle time. The ancient Greeks regularly discussed something in their free time. It was their favourite. The word then became school in English. School 🐟 The other school is (perhaps) a Proto-Indo-European origin , prefix skel- . Meaning to cut , broadened as a noun to refer a division . The word then became school in English. This one means group — specifically for sea or marine animals. This school , which refers to group of marine animals, appeared about couple hundred years earlier than that other school — the place to educate young people — in English. English has that tendency to jam absorbed multiple different origins in...

A musical instrument is an instrument to create musical sounds. Or, an instrument which is musical. But... music instrument is an instrument to create music. Or, an instrument which is used in composing and/or performing music. Which one is correct? Perhaps both. But musical instrument is more common in literature . First-come, first-served game. Instrument is a noun. Musical is the adjective, to describe the noun. Adjective-noun phrase. Like angry monkey , it's a monkey which is angry. While music is also a noun, noun-noun, like anger monkey , which means a monkey appears in anger, that's uncommon. But... EEEYYYYYY.... Therefore, logic dictates we go with: musical instrument Aw... But hear me out. Music instrument is technically legit! It's a noun-noun construction, and in theory, it makes sense; an instrument for music. But indeed, musical instrument won the linguistic first-come, first-served game and became the dominant term in English...

Did you notice most films — action, adventure, and everything else with rescue scenes — have this: Hey, what's going on? Or, what's happened? I'll explain later. Although, clearly, there was plenty of time to explain everything. Professor Barry (P. B.) Student : Processor , what's that you're writing? P. B. : Screw you. Student : Why? P. B. : Because it's S, C, R, E, and so on. Student : Won't that be great if it isn't like that for a change? P. B. : No. Uh In my opinion, h...

The name we perhaps know is Voltaire . It's a nom de plume , the character was a writer. An insightful scribe, if he did scribe anything — mostly writing. Not merely writing on random surfaces though. Nom de Plume Nom de plume means pen name . Pen back then used feather, the quill. Not the feather per se, that would be quite a tedious labour to write even one letter. It was the pointy tip of the feather dipped in goo. Then the goo dipped pointy tip of the feather was used to write, with the feather altogether — as one — but not dipping all of them. Holding it properly was a must. And, not goo per se. But broadly, it fell under that category. Now, it falls under that category. Nom means name, plume means feather. Like in children song Alouette . This line: Alouette, je te plumerai... Plumerai means pluck, I will pluck you, as the alouette will be bald in that song. And will be cooked. Hm. That excalates. To sooth us down, alouette is lark bird in English...

Let's start from this quote: History is a set of lies agreed upon. It is agreed upon that it is taken from Napoleon Bonaparte's memoir — strongly tied to his period of exile on St. Helena (1815). He Spoke English? 🤨 No, of course not. It is the English version . He's French. Actually, a Corsican — the island of Corsica was already under French control before he was born. His family, the Buonapartes, had Italian origins, specifically from Tuscan nobility. They had migrated to Corsica in the 16th century. Despite his Italian heritage, Napoleon's life and career were deeply intertwined with France. He received his education in French military schools and rose to prominence within the French military and political system. In a way, Napoleon's success was a combination of his inherent abilities, his cultural background, and the historical circumstances in which he lived. His "outsider" mentality, driven by his origins, likely added a powe...

This was a 3 minutes game of Blitz(krieg) at lichess.org as "Anonymous". I played defence side, the black pieces. This is called anti-"fried liver" defense. The "fried liver" attack is that thing... Uh, you know. That, the basic opening when we first learned to play chess perhaps. Like "scholar" attack, but instead of bishop and queen, we use bishop and horse (knight). "Fried liver" is the English version, the Italian would be "fegatello". It's Italian surely. Meaning, eeyyy ... It was quite interesting. You might want to observe it. You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on the chessboard. But first, click the board.

This was a 3 minutes game of Blitz(krieg) at lichess.org as "Anonymous". I played offence side, the white pieces. This was weird and interesting. I resigned 🤣 You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on the chessboard. But first, click the board.