Eric S notapenguin's blog: "Profile titles can take a blog in themselves"

This "birdie" is getting a haircut (feathertrim?) soon, soon... (Hirsute = hairy!)

I've got a whole lot to do today Feb 3, but will try to replace this with an explanation of why I support the recent ratings review... change... later this evening (eastern US time).

I don't mean as romantic partners. *G* (If you've read Piers Anthony's Xanth series, or Terry Pratchett's Discworld - with Patrician Havelock Vetinari- he of "one man, one vote"- he's the one man who has the one vote ;) - anyway, his line about alloys being stronger than "pure metals"- that's much closer to my very, very indirect and jump-about line of thought...)

status line "herded to sound slee(p)" is a pun. A variant on "Herd(er)ed into sound sleep" or " Schlaf sanft mein Kind, schlaf sanft und schön!" (J. Herder, quoted by Brahms, atop a late piano piece. "Sleep sound my child, sleep sound and soft (well)!") Which I'd better go, and do. Eric

I wanted to keep the length of my new title reasonable, so I abbreviated a few words... and ended up with prate for photo rating- of course, prate is a word. I'm at my prating and prattling on limit indeed for the day. Pity! :)

"Language games" is not to denote something frivolous, by the way- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language-game and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein -Eric

Has anyone heard the song Swinging on a Star? or similar songs? I think I've now had to explain my general sort-of-direction-of-intention with the title, "Have you ever seen, a penguin fly?" (and that breathing-space comma is not arbitrary) several times- it's not clear. Back in summer camp we sang quite a lot of songs and I keep imagining the general outline of one, where one of the lines would end- ...Have- you ever seen, a penguin fly? much to the rhythm in fact, of Swinging on a Star, with its "Or would you like to ..."- that same refrain, different words. But with penguins flying representing to my mind- aspiration. Something wanting to go up, not yet there. (Though- as I keep joking cheerily: 60% of penguins polled expressed indifference when asked if they wanted to fly. The other 40% (think of that scene at the end of the US version of March of the Penguins, with the penguins just walking past the camera people, looking, and waddling right on by with an avian sort-of-shrug I suppose) seemed to think about it, said nothing at all but had a good story for their family later on.