A comment to Vodkapundit says “Lileks . . . must be the only writer in America to know and use the plural hiatii.” Lileks is of course free to invent words if he likes, in which case he’s naturally the only one to know them; but in Latin, there is no word in which singular -us corresponds to plural -ii. hiatus is a u-stem abstract, and its plural is hiatūs (with a long u).
And by the way, the plural of Elvis is Elvides. I have spoken.
Satellites Reveal a Mystery of Large Change in Earth’s Gravity. In the last five years, Earth has grown more oblate, reversing a trend since the Ice Ages. Amazing what they can measure nowadays, eh?
I need to vent, and welcome any advice, on several matters which are somewhat entangled with each other.
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GPS sparks boundary wars. New measurements tell Rhode Islanders that they live in Connecticut, and so on. (Thanks to Monty Solomon for the link.) If it were a question of private property, I believe the rule of adverse possession would decide in favor of the occupants. But in matters of Government one can’t allow common sense, or such trifles as the reasonable expectations of the people affected, to get in the way.
No fair! This list of blogs ranked by number of links (each way) omits me, though I’ve been linked (at least in passing) by about fifteen of those on the list. I must have forgotten to turn off the Romulan device.
“Oh my God, it’s Chianti! And from a year when the grapes died and they used foo instead!”
Who the heck said that, and what was foo?
You already know about the peculiar poetry of the Arcata Eye police log, right?
How about Ed Pegg’s Mathpuzzle? It’s a dense log of matters Gardneresque, with new material about once a week.