MolluScan!
Reading Gould just now, I ran across the word molluscan meaning pertaining to a mollusk.
This is so cool. I haven’t been so excited about an animal adjective since cygneous.
Now I have to quickly learn how to program a TWAIN driver so that I can release a Linux scanning program called MolluScan. It will, of course, need hooks into the Nautilus file browser, but I can skip having to write OCR functionality into it because no mollusk — not even a cephalopod — can, to the best of my knowledge, read.
(Yes, this is a joke.)
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October 17th, 2008 at 18h18
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October 18th, 2008 at 01h04
When I was 14, Lovecraft introduced me to the word “batrachian”, and I’ve held it close to my heart ever since.
October 18th, 2008 at 05h02
Wow. Just last night and this morning, I was thinking through the details of a speculative future religion that deifies Kermit the Frog. Seriously. I had to do something while I was lying awake all night. I still cannot sit for long periods of time in a desk chair. So I lay on the couch and thought about a Kermit the Frog religion. Like you do.
Of all the days to learn a word such as “batrachian”. Wow.
“Batrachian” is going straight into the credal elements of the religion — à la Douglas Adams, use of esoteric vocabulary (and the unwillingness to define the words when asked) would be crucial aspects of top-down control in such a religion.