just curious

This is a diagram of a four-way intersection of two paths. Corners A and D (or B and C) are:

1. Kitty-corner
2. Catty-corner
3. Something else

I usually say #1, but apparently #2 is better etymologically (from Old French catre, four).

(note to self: need icon for "curious")

eta: I wonder if this is related at all to cattywampus (which I would have spelled caddywompus). Wiktionary seems to think so since it links to cater-corner as a "see also".

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Plum Blossom

(flickr picture; they turned off the share links)

These kinds of trees are blooming around here, too. We have a lot of cherry plums which have purple/red leaves and pinker blossoms. They're actually the trees I look to for a "green world" cue as to when Imbolc (by whatever name) has arrived. And true to form, the persimmon tree down the street has been blooming since mid-January and was beginning to come out in leaves today.

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We just saw a Kia commercial where the car, driving down the road, is first clamped onto by some kind of magnetic (?) thing dangling from a helicopter, flown out to sea and past a cruise (?) ship, whereupon a giant CG Neptune/Poseidon kind of figure rears up out of the ocean and grabs the car in his hand, but aliens take it away in their tractor beam.

Or something. I mean, by any measure, WTF, right? ("Optima: No ordinary sedan" was the tagline, I think. Uh. Yeah, I guess it's not?) I said we ought to go to Korea and see what was in their rice because clearly there was some kind of problem.

But the thing that really made me LOL was that as the helicopter flew in and got a grip on the car, that was when they put up the tinytext "Do not attempt" warning.

Do not attempt?! Just how the fuck would I attempt anything that happened in this commercial?!

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enotsola: [peering at my left lower eyelid] You have an eyelash crawling up your face.

arethinn: What, like this? [makes appropriate silly hand motions]

enotsola: ...Yes.

arethinn: [wipes eye, looks at fingers, sees nothing]

enotsola: Ummm... you must have knocked it down.

arethinn: Oh dear! Will it get up again? I'm never gonna keep it down!