Month: January 2004
A site for learning Japanese that includes an online book explaining ordinary Japanese behavior.
Categories
The Biggest Dragon
Someone mailed me a question about what is the name of the biggest dragon?
The obvious answer is that the biggest dragon is the Midgard Serpent, Jormungund, who is literally world-spanning (he encircles the earth).
Looking up more info (and a better answer) i ran across Phil Hine’s meditation on Thor, a scientific article about animal size, the promising but quite incomplete Dracopedia (which I found by looking up Ancalagon the Black – searching for Dragons+Size just gives a ton of pages selling Dragon brickabrack). Best of all (as usual) are the loony sites.
In the end it occurs to me that the Biggest Dragon is the constellation Draco, which is light-years across…
Categories
Mail and Bears
Looking for information about IMAP (my mail folders got f***ed), I came across the personal web page of Mark Crispin, who invented IMAP and wrote the Unix email client Pine. He’s got an amusing page of
Important Information Which Everybody Should Know, such as:
The basic rule with any treatment of injured victims is: if it is
wet and it isn’t yours, DON’T TOUCH IT!"
Also some good stuff about charging bear attacks.
Finally, he points to the site of an Alaskan Town called Eagle, which he says could serve as a good model for the fictional town of Cicely on the show Northern Exposure. This might have been better than Kotzebue for my purposes.
Categories