Friday, July 18, 2008

Space Mana

For years scientists have suspected that God kept a reserve supply of mana in the depths of space. Now one Hawaiian claims to have enough pictures to open their own gallery of the elusive space mana (Hebrew: החלל החיצון מָ‏ן). Hopefully "soon" is before the end of next week, so we can all experience space mana ourselves, at least in gallery form.


Fun Facts:
1. Since Hebrew is written right to left, when you copy and paste it, the blinking cursor (no, not you, Hazama) stays to the left until you type something western, like sarsaparilla or boy-howdy!
2. Whlie manna itself is now spelled with two "n"s, "space mana" retains the antiquated one "n" spelling because Hawaiians enjoy spelling it that way. And since they are always puting extra apostrophes into words (e.g. Hawai'i, O'Brien, it's) scholars figured why not let them take something out of a word for a change?
3. The Battle of Hastings was in 1066. Also in 1066, Sima Guang wrote a detailed 8-volume Tongzhi (通志; "Comprehensive Records"), which chronicled Chinese history from 403 BCE to 207 BCE (the end of the Qin Dynasty).
4. Later in life, Sima was reported to have said he was "glad he sold off his time-share in Hastings in 1065."

Mahalo

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