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Technology and arts enjoyer. Pursuer of knowledge. Probably on the spectrum. I don't bite (hard).
Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...
"Design is my passion!"
Doing this for an hour far, this is going to take forever by hand. #coffee
Coffee harvest time! The smell here next to my coffee bush (Ventura County, California) is extremely floral--like a room full of plumeria or orchids. The coffee berry is extremely sweet and tasty. I would say it has a similar flavor profile and sweetness of a Cherry Coke or Brazilian Guarana Antarctica. That said, I wouldn't est many--it's like an espresso worth of caffeine in about 4-5 fruit, by my coffee measure. I guess I need to pause other projects to husk these and set them out to dry. The husks can also be dried and made into a tea called "cascara". Also high in caffeine. So can the leaves.... #coffee #gardening
I enjoy that the digital sign outside the Northgate Community Center simply says: “HOT RAT SUMMER!” #Seattle
https://www.seattle.gov/parks/all-community-centers/northgate-community-center
Northgate Community Center - Parks | seattle.gov

Located across from Northgate Mall in one of Seattle's densest retail areas, Northgate Community Center provides a welcome respite from the noise and commotion of the surrounding neighborhood. The center shares a parking lot with the Northgate Library, which is located just to the north.

An Artistic Critique of Hot Rat Summer and St. Rat

St. Rat, of the Cal Anderson Park's Hot Rat Summer mosaic in Seattle, Washington, mimics a religious object. The Stranger asked Seattle University art historian Ken Allen and Dr. Kristen Doll of the school's Department of Theology and Religious Studies about what it meant. Allen told The Stranger it reminded him of the Rat Bastard Protective Association, a mid-50s art movement on the West Coast, as well as beat writers like Jack Kerouac. Doll said mosaics are common in religious art, but St. Rat's sainthood is an open question.

The Stranger
I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.
#Seattle: home of the only sports field that has a different name every time you go there
Starting to suspect the average person in #Seattle is better at merging in git than they are at merging on the freeway.
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Fascinating evolution and migration of the word "kitchen" from the latin word "cocina" and all other variants.

(by Reddit user: u/LlST- )

@infobeautiful Not seen in this image but I find it really interesting that Icelandic does not follow the pattern of the nordic countries and instead uses a seperate compound word "Eldhús" pretty much meaning "fire house" for kitchen.
@esi @infobeautiful I don't know any Icelandic but I love how it introduces new words (like "computer", one of the examples I know of) by using compounds of already-existing words/concepts.
@infobeautiful I liked the map. Still I can't help it but recognize that the letters ÄËÖÜ with diacritics seem to be unavailable in the font used and named letters are displayed in another unmatching font. This phenomenon is called #Zwiebelfisch in German.

@dboehmer @infobeautiful LOL at "onion-fish." (and also at realising cebola (or similar) -> zwiebel after looking it up)

Zwiebelfisch seems to be more nuanced/specialised than a similar word in Japanese, 文字化け (mojibake), which encompasses all sorts of display errors, but especially when the result is completely unreadable/unrecognisable.

@infobeautiful
In Finnish the correct term is ”keittiö”. ”Kyökki” is an obsolescent term.
@infobeautiful “lakozy” (Malagasy)seems far from the others. Is there a story there?

@chrisp @infobeautiful Perhaps the first letters “LA…” come from the feminine article of the French word “la cuisine”.

Similar to how Mozarabic Spanish words from the Islamic Caliphates contain the Arabic article “al-“ even when used with Spanish article: el alcornoque, la albahaca, la almohada.

@chrisp @infobeautiful in French cuisine is feminine, so it would be la cuisine with a definite article, I guess lakozy could be derived from that
@infobeautiful fascinating thank you