February 2011 Issue

March 3rd, 2011 by admin

And many thanks to the folks who have signed up for our Cute Kitty Cat Food Fund (CKCFF), which deducts a set amount from your PayPal account each month so that the little monsters can eat. Each CKCFF membership comes with a subscription if you want one — just send me a note when you sign up.

Artist's conception of what cute kitties might look like if they were better-behaved.

Cute Kitty Cat Food Fund

And now, on with the show…

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  1. Noah:

    March 4th, 2011 at 11:46 am

    “Semper Ubi Sub Ubi readme” Why? just thought i’d ask :)

  2. admin:

    March 4th, 2011 at 3:20 pm

    It’s an old Latin students’ joke:

    Semper (Always) Ubi (where) Sub (under) Ubi (where).

  3. Neil:

    March 4th, 2011 at 5:41 pm

    My first time visiting the site. I came in via a (yes, Google) search for ‘boy howdy’, but stayed for the ‘semper ubi sub ubi’ which was my favorite joke when I was studying Latin in college.

    I’m commenting, however, because (without having searched the site) I don’t know whether you are aware that there is a name for your face-recognition problem: prosopagnosia. Oliver Sacks has written about it, and also suffers from it. The Wikipedia entry on it is, well, Wikipedia.

  4. OwenKL:

    March 5th, 2011 at 4:17 am

    Wow, you sound like a textbook case of prosopagnosia, a.k.a. “face blindness”. I also have it, and try to spread the word. There are several websites devoted to prosopagnosia, and I strongly recommend you look a few of them up. For me, my classic embarrassing experience was when I was dating a pair of sisters (fraternal twins, NOT identical), and couldn’t always tell which one I was with! Just knowing about it and that it’s a real condition, not just you going crazy, makes it much easier to cope with.

  5. OTRsaOSG:

    March 9th, 2011 at 6:16 pm

    Neil and OwenKL are obviously not ardent followers of the Word Detective, although I would have thought the name of the site would give things away (maybe a case of “URL blindness”?).

  6. admin:

    March 11th, 2011 at 12:04 am

    Prosopagnosia, yeah. BTW, Kathy came up with this article about a woman who conditioned herself to be able to tell people apart:

    Is Face-Blindness Curable?