20190131

Thu 31 Jan 2019 09:29:56 AM EST Slept from ten-thirty to six-thirty. High of two degrees today. Bah! Work: - Work on a log watcher utility A bit. - Email Alltronics about Ubiquiti No. - Check out HAProxy routing based on client TLS cert fields No. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40847638/how-chrome-browser-know-which-client-certificate-to-prompt-for-a-site https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/4/html/Security_Guide/s1-ipsec-host2host.html Stayed out of the cold. Twenty-minute tromp around the office during lunch. Spent some time chasing network and equipment woes. Home: - Bye farewell gift for Kristen Done. - Do something https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/feck-a-history-of-swearing-from-the-very-first-f-to-the-21st-c-1.2676617 > 4. Gropecuntelane – Many of today’s obscene words were not offensive in the Middle Ages > Although many of today’s swearwords were in use by the 15th century, they were not obscene at this time. They were simply direct terms for the things they represented. Words that are obscene today appear everywhere in the Middle Ages, in street names (Gropecuntlane, Shitwellway, Fuckinggrove), personal names (Gunoka Cuntless, Godwin Clawcunt, Thomas Turd), the names of common plants and animals (a heron was a shiterow; the medlar was the open-arse tree), in literary texts and medical treatises (“in women the neck of the bladder is short and is made fast to the cunt”), and in translations of the Bible (“the Lord will smite you with the boils of Egypt [on] the part of the body by which turds are shat out”). > 5. Roger Fuckbythenavel – Scholars argue about when the f-word was first used in a sexual sense > The name Roger Fuckbythenavel was recently discovered in the Chester County Court rolls of 1310-11. It has reignited debate about when the f-word was first used in a sexual sense. There are earlier examples of it in names – John le Fucker (1278), Henry Fuckbeggar (1286), Simon Fuckbutter (1290)– but scholars usually explain them away as misspellings or closely related to Germanic words meaning “to hit” or “to strike”. Henry would then be known for walloping beggars, not sleeping with them. The first “real” use of the f-word is thought to occur in a poem partly written in cipher from around 1475, which complains that some monks are damned because they “fuccant” women around the monastery. Fuckbythenavel could be an example of either sense, really– it could refer to striking someone in the belly or some sexual proclivity (or youthful error?). Without context, it is impossible to tell. > 6. An envious Windfucker – Modern swearing began in the Renaissance > In the Renaissance, the power of oaths began to decline. From the worst, the most shocking words a person could utter, they became mild expletives, only slightly more offensive than “um” or “uh”. 17th- and 18th-century conversations were peppered with ‘sblood (“God’s blood”), zounds (“God’s wounds”), and a new one, bloody. Words that were simply direct in the Middle Ages started to take over as the new obscenities. The transition was rough, however – sometimes words were censored, and other times they still appeared in print, as when in 1616 George Chapman published a beautiful, expensive edition of Homer but in it attacked one of his critics as “an envious Windfucker”. Watched some anime. Servings: grains 0/6, fruit 3/4, vegetables 4/4, dairy 1/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5 Breakfast: two eggs, celery, tomato, carrots, banana, coffee Lunch: apple, banana, carrots, yogurt, coffee Dinner: pizza 142/85

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