Diaphanitas

"Lectura Secunda Seriei Dialogues with Darwin!"
"The Second Lecture of the Dialogues with Darwin Series!"

It was not bad! Melissa could not go with me because she wasn't feeling very good.

But Myles and Sam were there! Hao was, too! So was Yasser, but he kind of disappeared on us.

The lecturer this time was Dr. Higgins. He came in to speak in one of my courses before. His position in the Darwin issue, I believe, is some flavor of theistic evolution.

His main point was that there is no conflict between science and religion. Best buddies, in fact! One of his examples, of course, was Dr. Kenneth Miller. Perhaps I should refer to this as the Argumentum ad Millerum. Here is what I think of the whole thing.

The part that bothered me the most was the part where he brought up Richard Dawkin's OUT Campaign and did so in a way that it was designed to make it sound as silly as possible, although he did it politely. Some people laughed. Hao and I didn't like that one bit.

During the question and answer section after the lecture, Hao asked Dr. Higgins an epic question! I don't remember it all, but it had to do with the fact that he disagreed with Higgin's position on the relationship between science and religion.

Myles, Sam, Hao, and I talked a bit afterward. Hao apparently didn't know of the "Complexity" model of the relationship. I told him all about it.

It was a good night. If only Melissa could go with!

"Quid Est Illud?"
"What Is That?"

This explains:

http://oddlyspecific.com/2009/11/thanks-the-suspense-was-killing-me/

Melissa found that.

"Piratriae Spatii Tribadoides in Castulis Brevissimis"
"The EEKy Miniskirt Space Pirates"

Melissa made that up:

http://twitter.com/azalaisdeveyrac

LOL! I wanna see it!

"Melissa Adest!"
"Melissa Is Here!"

She is!

She hurt her finger, though. She managed to take care of it.

It hurts pretty bad, though! Fortunately, I think that's the worst of it. She'll be okay.

"Melissa Aderit!"
"Melissa Is Going to He Here!"

She's been out of town since Friday.

And she'll be back very soon!

I'm excited!

LWotP: adesse "to be present."

"Amasne Yuri et Yaoi? Obscenus Es!"
"Like Yuri and Yaoi? You're a Pervert!"

Catlord found this:

http://kyaathecatlord.livejournal.com/855517.html

"Seriously, anyone who reads yaoi and yuri out there, according to ANN you're a perv. Here is your sign scarlet letter."

I guess that makes Melissa and me perverts! Catlord, too!

YAY for our scarlet letters!

"Res Esse Meliores Melissae Debent"
"Things Need to Be Better for Melissa"

If only she did not have to go out of town on top of it all!

I'll give her a huge hug when she gets back!

What a great idear!

"Facite Differentiam"
"Make A Difference"

Melissa showed this to me:

Make A Difference - Keep Broadband Competitive in Canada

( Res Plures )

"Duo aut Tres Iani"
"Two or Three Ians"

Me: Imagine if we had about two or three Ians around here.

Melissa: I'd rather not, dear.

"Felicem Canadianum Diem Gratiarum Agendarum!"
"Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!"

Melissa and I are going to have Thanksgiving dinner at Kings Landing again this year!

How exciting! I can't wait!

"Peeps Feliformia!"
"Cat-Shaped Peeps!"

Melissa told me about them:

http://www.marshmallowpeeps.com/

They should be cuter!

"Occupati Ianus et Melissa Occupati Sunt!"
"Busy Ian and Melissa Are Busy!"

Melissa and I have been so busy today that I didn't even get a chance to post anything yet!

And now I have enough free time to post something!

LWotP: occupatus -a -um "busy."

"Imago cum Sciuro Bellulo!"
"An Image with a Cute Squirrel!"

Melissa likes this:

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/your_weather/details/620/1513078/1/canb0040?ref=ugc_city_thumbs

LWotP: sciurus -i m. "squirrel."

"BrewBakers Excellens Erat!"
"BrewBakers Was Excellent!"

It was great! We had an appetizer (Bruschetta Duo, I believe), dinner itself (I wish I could remember the names!), and dessert (a hot apple cidar and Black Forest Cake for me, regular coffee and Crème brûlée for Melissa)!

We had a large bill at the end, but we didn't care!

"Hoc Vespere: BrewBakers!"
"This Evening: BrewBakers!"

Melissa and I are going there this evening for Melissa's birthday!

http://www.brewbakers.ca/

That's very exciting!

"Felicem Natalem, Melissa!"
"Happy Birthday, Melissa!"

Happy birthday! I love you!

"Pupae Chartaceae Personarum e Red String?"
"Paper Dolls of the Characters from Red String?"

Melissa wishes that there were paper dolls of all the characters with all the outfits they're shown wearing.

What a good idear!

LWotP: pupa chartacea "paper doll."

"Bibe Zebram"
"Drink the Zebra"

Ian: "Do you want to drink any more of the zebra?"

Melissa: "I'll have a sip."

This is what I'm talking about:

http://www.alassonde.com/en/products/oasis/fruitzoo.aspx

LWotP: zebra -ae f. "zebra."

"Iocum apud Kings Landing Habuimus!"
"We Had Fun at Kings Landing!"

First we went to get my hair cut, and then we to Kings Landing:

http://www.kingslanding.nb.ca/

The best part was The King's Head Inn, where we had lunch.

Their bread is excellent! We were going to buy some (two packages, one for someone Melissa knows), but there was not any available at the time.

So, it was overall a great day!

LWotP: iocus -i m. "fun."

"Libri Novi ex Amazon!"
"New Books from Amazon!"

They came today! Now I have my copies of Latin Suffixes and Greek Paradigm Handbook! How exciting!

I am not really sure what Melissa got, but she seems happy about it!

LWotP: liber -bri m. "book."

"Coffeum Deerravit per Tubum Falsum"
"Coffee Went Down the Wrong Pipe"

I hope I didn't startle Melissa. She is still napping.

LWotP: tubus -i m. "pipe."

"Semestre Autumnale: Lingua Graeca!"
"The Fall Term: Greek!"

I am going to take Greek this semester with Adrian! How exciting!

And here is a great Greek name:

Ἀναστασία

Here is one that is even better:

Μέλισσα

Jolly good!

"Sanctum Iohannem!"
"To Saint John!"

Yeah, we're going there today. We have to be there at 8 in the morning!

Melissa doesn't like that part, though. She is not a morning person. I am, though, and I am the navigator.

Why are we going there? It is something about updating something on the Smart Car. I dunno the details.

LWotP: Sanctus Iohannes m. "Saint John."

"Basia Eam!"
"Kiss Her!"

Melissa saw today's Red String!

http://www.redstring.strawberrycomics.com/?p=1116

She said: "Why doesn't he just kiss her? Oh I know: he's clueless."

"Hodie: Grande Mananum"
"Today: Grand Manan"

Melissa and I will be there until tomorrow.

Look at their site:

http://www.grandmanannb.com/

It is so 1998!

"Fredericopoli!"
"In Fredericton!"

We're back! Melissa is tired.

We had pizza for dinner! Very nice!

LWotP: pitta -ae f. "pizza."

"PSP Novum et Halifaxium"
"A New PSP and Halifax"

I got the new PSP! I love it! It is much lighter than my old one! Now I don't want to use my old one anymore. But I am not going to get rid of it.

We had our Halifax day today! It was not bad. The only bad part was that Melissa started to feel sick after lunch. But she got better!

We had a great lunch at Momoya and a great dinner at Anatolia! Both places have great food.

Naturally, we stopped at some of the bookstores. I got some more Latin books. The most interesting book that I got was Winnie Ille Pu, the Latin version of Winnie the Pooh! How exciting! Melissa got some books, too. I'm sure she'll talk about them later on her LJ.

LWotP: Halifaxium -i n. "Halifax."

"Natalis Patris Melissae!"
"Melissa's Father's Birthday!"

Happy birthday to him! He is 78 today!

We (including Melissa's father himself) have been making jokes about how that 7 should be a 2!

"Una Hebdomas Halifaxii!"
"A Week in Halifax!"

Actually, Melissa and I are going to be in Dartmouth, which is in the Halifax area.

And guess what is going to be in Halifax next week!

The atheist buses! YAY!

LWotP: Halifaxium -i n. "Halifax."

"Dictum Melissae"
"Something Melissa Said"

LOL:

( !!! )

"Non Amica Libertati"
"Not Freedom-Friendly"

Melissa found this:



Yes, you are free to do exactly what we tell you to do!

"Quomodo 'Tap' Latine Dicitur?"
"How is 'Tap' Said in Latin?"

English-Latin dictionaries such as this one use the phrase leviter ferire, literally, "to strike lightly."

I am making up a better word:

ferillare -o -avi -atum "to tap"
( Etymologia )

I made a similar word here:

http://diaphanus.livejournal.com/1116446.html

Melissam amo! Illam ferillarem!

"DD... Ioco?"
"DD... Yoko?"

Right:

DD Yoko

Melissa: "DD stands for Dollfie Dreams. It's not supposed to be her bust size."

Could've fooled me! LOL!

"Melissa in Aeroportu Fredericopolis!"
"Melissa in the Fredericton Airport!"

She'll be back home within a half an hour!

I'm excited! I missed her!

LWotP: aeroportus -us m. "airport."

"Toroni"
"In Toronto"

Here are some of the things that happened in Toronto:

On Saturday, we arrived in Toronto at about 10. Then we took the subway to the Clarion Hotel & Suites Selby. That is the same place we stayed at last time!

We took the subway most of the time. It's an interesting experience! It's not so bad when there aren't many people, but when it's all crowded, it kind of sucks.

On Sunday morning, we arrived at the ROM at around 9:30. The place wasn't open yet, so we walked along the Philosophers' Walk behind the place. Finally, when the place opened, we got in line, waited, and finally got into the exhibit.

There are two remarkable things about the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit. One of them didn't occur to me until about half way through the thing. There is plenty of background telling people why these things are important, and that's fine, but I eventually began to wonder "Boy, so, are there any, um, Dead Sea Scrolls in this exhibit? You don't actually get to see any of them until about almost near the end.

Hilarious conversion two well-dressed white ladies:

One Lady: "So, what are Sea Scrolls?"

Other Lady: "I dunno, but I had a free ticket, so I thought I'd might as well come."

The other remarkable thing is something that Melissa pointed out. The worldview that inspired the creation of these scrolls is completely alien to us. We can read various parts of the Old Testament of the Bible, but none of that can really prepare you for the sorts of things that you see and read in this exhibit.

There are several parts of the exhibit that might disturb the fundies. I don't remember what they are exactly, but Melissa pointed them out.

After we saw the exhibit, we saw the Book of the Dead exhibit, which is much smaller than the Serious Business one we just got done seeing. At that point, we got ready to meet up with Anthony.

We meet Anthony right outside the ROM! We had a Dim Sum lunch at Bright Pearl! And then we had some snacks and coffee at this little Chinese-type bakery. There were some signs for buns that said "bums"! Hilarious!

After that, we went to Anthony's place. We took a walk and eventually ended up at this Indian-inspired-infusion bar, Stratengers Maharaja or something like that, and had dinner. Melissa and Anthony had some sorts of curry things, but I had pizza! Very nice!

It started raining while we got back. We had to hide under trees because the rain was falling so much. Finally, we got back to Anthony's place and Melissa and I went back to the hotel.

On Monday, we were thinking of going to the art museum, but when we finally got there, we learned that the place is closed on Mondays! And so we decided to go to Casa Loma instead. We were there before a few years ago, but we didn't get to see the gardens because last time we were there too early in the season. We got kind of lost this time, but we eventually made it to the place.

But we saw the gardens this time! It's all very nice! We saw some plants and scientific names and we didn't NOM any chickens. I brought the camcorder with us, so I filmed a little bit of the place. When I have time, I'll upload the videos to YouTube. After that we were getting hungry, so we went out to meet up with Anthony again!

We meet him at a Starbucks, although I'm not entirely sure where that was. I do know it's not too far from Toronto's Church of Scientology. It really was amazing to see the Church building! I wasn't expecting it at all. Anyway, we met up with Anthony and had lunch at this Japanese place named, I think, Masa (or something like that). It was all-you-can-eat! We got quite a bit of stuff. Melissa and Anthony had all of the sushi-related stuff, but I stuck with the teriyaki and chicken stuff. I liked everything I ate.

And then we went to Starbucks to have coffee! Serious Business, indeed! Unfortunately, it started raining again, but that wasn't a bad thing because we had coffee! Coffee can make most things happier! But it was time for Anthony to go. We said good-bye to him. Anthony is hilarious! We'll miss him. Coffee still made the situation not so bad, though.

We walked back to the subway station in the rain. Oh well! We finally got back to the hotel and took a nap. When we got up, we decided to go to this Greek place by foot. Unfortunately, we misjudged the distance, and ended up taking the subway. We got to the Greek part of the city, and since we didn't feel like walking any more, we decided to go to this other Greek place, Mr. Greek.

What a great place! I had some kind of chicken souvlaki wrap thingy, but Melissa had something with a name that escapes me right now. It was all great! Melissa's meal was gigantic! I had to help her eat it, and even then, I didn't finish it. One of the servers was really doing the Greek voice thing. It was disturbing and amusing at the same time.

And then we went back to the hotel. It was time for sleep! I remember waking up at around 4:00 the next morning. It wasn't so bad because I could read in the closet, which had a light. In the closet! That's hilarious!

Our plane was scheduled to leave at around 10:40 in the morning or something like that. We had Starbucks coffee before we got on the plane! And it's a good thing that we had to go on one plane. Excellent! The worst thing about the plane experience is that there was this one kid that just wouldn't keep quiet. How irritating!

Do we want children? "NOOOOOOOO!" Mashka can have children if she wants.

I'm glad to be back! Melissa is too, I'm sure.

"Revenimus!"
"We're Back!"

Melissa needs a rest.

I'll nap later.

"Heri: Dies Excellens!"
"Yesterday: An Excellent Day!"

It was! Melissa came home from Sackville! We saw Mary and Nathan! We had breakfast at Tim's and lunch at Cora's! We got stuff!

Melissa began to feel a bit icky, but she's better now!

Very nice!

"Heri: Dies Excellens"
"Yesterday: An Excellent Day"

It certainly was! How exciting!

My father wanted to call me sometime during the late morning, but since certain parts of late morning over where he lives are after noon here, I emailed him telling him to call back sometime during the evening.

Not long after noon, we went to the Fredericton mall to find some things to do. We first bought some of those huge caramel apples at the great candy store there. I had a regular-ish one, while Melissa had one with mint and chocolate morsels. We also got some coffee with that from Starbucks! We had a nice lunch! Those apples always turn into a meal themselves. We decided to walk around and then later get some poutine.

After that, we walked around and looked at some of the other stores there. We went to a magazine shop and bought a few magazines -- Wired and this anime one with a Marimite poster! More exitement!

As we were walking toward the direction of the video game store in the mall, we noticed this pizza stone set at, I think, Stokes. Since I've been wanting to get something like that (when it comes to pizzas, our not-so-large plates don't, um, cut it) for a while now, we bought it! It was even marked down from a higher price!

We went to the video game store after that. There wasn't anything there that interested, so we left the place without getting anything. We did see something scary, though: some kind of Hannah Montana game for the DS. I don't know much about Hannah Montana, but I'm naturally appalled by that sort of thing. Apparently, the music is really bad (or at least not great).

Anyway, then we headed back to get some poutine! Before we got back, we saw this one lady (or girl -- I didn't have that good of a look at her) with her pants down so low that you could see part of her butt crack -- you know, the "coin slot" thing.

When our delicious poutine was finished, we left the mall and headed downtown. We walked around there a bit, and then decided to go to Strange Adventures. We didn't get anything there, as far as I remember. The place had a copy of the first volume that Christian-values comic Serenity. Although the characters are cute (especially the main character Serenity), the rest of the art leaves much to be desired. The main reason that I remember this book is that someone stuck a yellow Post-It note on one of the pages with the word "language" written on it. Naturally, I looked around on the page to find the "language." The word was "skank." LOL!

Then we went to the used bookstore that is near the comic book store. The place actually had Latin books for once! Excellent! I didn't get any of them, though. Perhaps we'll go back again soon to pick them up. The cat who lives with the bookstore owners was there! Signs around the store say that he's not friendly, but he has always been friendly with us! He (or she?) allows us to pat her!

After that, we got bananas, orange juice, and bread from Victory Meat Market downtown! When we say that we're going to the grocery store to get the "regular" stuff, we mean that stuff. We go through a lot of bananas, orange juice, and bread (actually, Melissa would say that I do, but we know what I mean). Then we went hope for a bit.

Later, at around 5:30, we drove up to East Side Mario's! What a great place! I wasn't disappointed at all! I'm not entirely certain what Melissa's main thing was, but I got pizza with all-you-can-eat Italian Wedding soup! We were also given all-you-can-eat bread that had some garlic-ness on it. I loved it! The pizza was ensmallened, yet nomulent. I didn't care too much about the size because I was pretty full by the large amount of bread and soup! We had room for desert! Melissa had something I'm not familiar with, but I had this chocolate moose thingy. And coffee, naturally! I loved it!

We went home after that. My opa called some time after we got back home! It was great talking to him! It's been a while since I last talked to him. My cousin Aaron is not a father, and Opa is now a great grandfather! That is great to know! What does that make me? Something like second cousin? I dunno, really.

My father called later! We talked for about a half an hour. I told him about what we did during the day! It was even more excitement! If only I could talk to him more often!

Melissa and I didn't have my birthday cake yet! We were just too full from East Side Mario's! But we intend to have some later on. Excellent!

That was my day!

"Dies Bonus Adhuc!"
"A Good Day So Far"

That's right! The cat show was fun! There were, naturally, kitties of many kinds! Some of them were sleeping (like kitties like to do), others were meowing, and others just were hiding. We couldn't touch any of them. Some of them were so cute and it was difficult not to want to pat them! Melissa bought a book that she's been wanting to get!

She also wanted to get a cat or two. But we can't keep the poor things here in this apartment! Fortunately, she got over that. It took some snuggling! After we left the cat show, we had food and coffee at Tim's! How exciting!

While we on the way back home, we saw some girls (perhaps teenagers) with bikini tops holding up signs. There was apparently a car wash thing going on, so, yeah.

We noticed that the little Japanese store was open! It's been closed for months! We went there and bought some good things! After that, we went to The Happy Baker to get my birthday cake and some coffee! More excitement! It's going to be even more exciting tomorrow! I'm going to be thirty!

I want East Side Mario's on Sunday afternoon or evening. I'll definitely want us both to nom pizzas and I don't think we'll play any videogames in any location, whether that location be easy for people to get to or not, but I'll leave open the possibility. But if videogames are involved, it would be great if Mary and Jody could join us. It would be fun!

I hope my parents call me tomorrow! I hope, I hope!

"Igitur Quid Possunt Feminae Facere?"
"In That Case, What Can Ladies Do?"

Melissa posted this:

http://www.engrish.com/2009/06/temple-sign-from-bali/

So, what can ladies do?

Look at Melissa's response:

http://azalaisdeveyrac.livejournal.com/76126.html

I realise this was posted because of the Engrish, and yes, it's kinda funny. But now I want to go there and smear menstrual blood ALL OVER THE WALLS.

LOL!

LWotP: possum "to be able."

"Star Trek Vidimus!"
"We Saw Star Trek!"

And we loved it!

Melissa kept going on about how much of an ass Kirk is!

Of course!

LWotP: Iter Stellare "Star Trek."

"Revenimus!"
"We're Back!"

And Melissa is napping because she is exhausted.

LWotP: revenire "to come back."

"Melissa Dixit!"
"Melissa Said!"

"There are other X-Men besides Wolverine?"

Yeah, I think there used to be. Maybe.

"Melissa Adest!"
"Melissa Is Here!"

And I'm very happy!

LWotP: adesse "to be present."

"Hodie Melissa Reveniet"
"Melissa Is Going to Come Back Today!"

She has been out of town for the week.

I missed her! It's going to be exciting when she's back!

"Euge, Beatissimus Sum!"
"Wow, I Am Very Happy!"

Indeed! Really! And truly!

Mreow!

Melissa is for 'nuggle! So are kitties!

"Desipiens Res Quam Melissa Accepit"
"A Silly Thing That Melissa Got"

A really silly thing in her email inbox:

( Desipiens Res )

"Libri Novi e Chapters!"
"New Books from Chapters!"

We has some!

We bought them yesterday.

Melissa listed the books she got:
http://azalaisdeveyrac.livejournal.com/73846.html

These are my new books:

• The Last Days of the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport
  
  
• The Atheist's Way by Eric Maisel

Those books are Relevant to My Interests!

OTMA have their own chapter in the former! How excellent!

LWotP: liber -bri m. "book."

"Coffeum Habeo!"
"I have Coffee!"

Melissa got it from Tim Hortons!

How exciting! Melissa is very nice!

LWotP: coffeum -i n. "coffee."

"Protegite Campum Lusorium Aequum Vobis Interretis"
"Protect Your Internet's Level Playing Field"

Melissa showed this to me:

http://saveournet.ca/

Send a comment if you wanna!

LWotP: campus lusorius "playing field."