Busy, busy day. Jody had a dental appointment this morning, so we came in to town for that, then he went back home. I went back in to Austin, took a couple minutes to get some juice at the super-charger, then off to a 1 o'clock meeting. After the meeting, it was in to the office for some power real estate, then it was off to the movies. Tonight was the annual ABoR TREPAC Movie Night, and it was The Avengers: End Game. I have no intentions of spoiling it for anyone, and even if I DID intend to spoil it, I couldn't, since I have absolutely NO IDEA what was happening or what was going on. Needless to say, I did find out that the bad guy was not portrayed by the guy that does the Hefty Bag commercials. That is pretty much all I took away from the movie. So, my suggestion is, if you want to know what happens, go see the movie. And next year, come and get a sneak preview with us. Stay tuned!Ab Ovo -- Adverb. from the beginning. Since the first prototype had so many flaws, Jeanette recommended that we scrap the whole thing and design a new one ab ovo.
Did You Know? Ab ovo usque ad mala. That phrase translates as "from the egg to the apples," and it was penned by the Roman poet Horace. He was alluding to the Roman tradition of starting a meal with eggs and finishing it with apples. Horace also applied ab ovo in an account of the Trojan War that begins with the mythical egg of Leda from which Helen (whose beauty sparked the war) was born. In both cases, Horace used ab ovo in its literal sense, "from the egg," but by the late 16th century it had been adapted to its Modern English meaning of "from the beginning," as evidenced by Sir Philip Sidney in his An Apology for Poetry: "If [the dramatic poets] wil represent an history, they must not (as Horace saith) beginne Ab ouo: but they must come to the principall poynt of that one action." I did not make any of this up...
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