HTML, zomg.

This site...

...is where I'm learning to do cool things like that. :)

Oh, why not

After a healthy-- what? year?-- of hiatus, I figure I'll add to this blog a bit more. Just for kicks. (And because I'm taking a couple months off from work, so I suddenly have lots of free time I don't know what to do with.)

And so, to get back in the swing of "interesting things you didn't know before," a few fun facts:

-The Arabic language has very few vowels. For the most part, they just add the vowel sounds in when they read words. Consequently, they don't do a whole lot with consonant blends.

- The abbreviation of "Madame" does not require a period: not "Mme.", but "Mme". The reasoning? "E" is the last letter of "Madame," so apparently Europeans don't think it needs a period. They also don't think "Doctor" (Dr) needs a period, for the same reason.

-Until recently in Massachusetts (and only just now beginning to pop up in the state), lawyers are not allowed to do screening interviews to select a jury. The screening process is called "voir dire." Instead of practicing "voir dire," Mass. lawyers can only object to jurors based on, essentially, demographic criteria. Not sure how that can be PC, but whatever.

-Mary Baker Eddy founded the Church of Christ, Scientist (different from Scientology). The international headquarters of the church is in Boston.