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Latin Football Cheers

Football season is over of course, but you can use these for any sport.  It’s not like Latin had a real equivalent for “touchdown” anyway.

 

Sequimini, sequimini, facite ut pilam relinquat! 

Pursue them, pursue them, make them relinquish the ball!

 

Illos repellite, expellite, compellite ad fugiendum!

Repel them, expel them, compel them to retreat!

 

Utinam vincamus!

Oh, would that we would score!

 

Volebamus atque volemus pilam trans metas deponi!

We have been wanting and shall continue to want a touchdown!

 

Those are from Latin For All Occasions, by Henry Beard, a Classics major who went on to co-found National Lampoon.  For years people gave me books like that.

Here’s a bonus (under “LATIN AT THE AIRPORT”) that might come in handy as we enter the imperial era:

 

Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!

Stand aside, plebeians!  I am on imperial business!

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Mixed Emotions

On the one hand, Sir Paul is still out there doing it on his terms, at almost 83 years old!

On the other … yeesh …

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So You’re Saying There’s A Chance

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered several weeks ago.

Between 100 to 300 feet across, it has something like a 1.5% chance of striking earth in 2032. Anything larger than 150 feet with a 1% chance of impact gets put on the watch list of the International Asteroid Warning Network.

An asteroid that size could easily cause something as significant as the Tunguska Event in Siberia in 1908, estimated at 1000X the explosive force of the Hiroshima bomb.

And still not remotely close to the Chicxulub impactor at the end of the Cretaceous. When it struck the Yucatan, the 10 – 15 kilometer meteor caused a rim of mountains higher than the Himalayas to form around the impact zone, blasted debris that achieved escape velocity and left the atmosphere, and brought instantaneous extinction as far away as what is now North Dakota and New Jersey.

NASA (funding pending) and Jet Propulsion Labs, among others, will follow YR4’s progress. If they upgrade this current threat, presumably some half-baked plan ensues to mitigate damage. I have personally volunteered Makerbot – the youngest, spryest, least whiny bastard – to lead Space Force on that dangerous mission.

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This Guy

My first post on the originale blogge was David Lynch. It seems fitting that I should comment on how he affected me, the central character of the universe.

I’ll spare you.

Someone asked me what Lynch I would be staying up late watching. I thought “probably none; his work is always spinning in my head anyway; it’s easy to call scenes to mind simply by thinking about them.”

[partial view of the home Lynch shelf]

Please note Lynch on Lynch on the far left, too worn to be legible anymore. I love his intuition and his thinking, the dream logic, the credit he seems to give to his audience for being as artistic as he is. And Alan Splet (sound engineer) and Angelo Badalementi. The struggle to find expression in images and sound when words just won’t do. An endless source of inspiration, fascination, humor, and wonder for me. A lot of great tributes out there, including Kyle MacLachlan and Defector.