Chronos

So I was thinking about the prefix 'chrono' and some of the words it appears in, when I wondered if there were any more I didn't know about. First I tried looking up 'Chronible' to mean 'that which can be chronicled' and the only significant result was a youtube channel where some guy plays video games and then spoils them by talking over all the best bits. Then I realized that maybe 'Chronible wouldn't even be correct for that definition so I revised it to 'Chronable', which I think makes more sense. After that I looked up the 'chrono prefix' on wikipedia and learned some new words. My new favorite word is now 'Chronometer', which is 'something that measures time'. I also was very impressed with 'Chronomancy' which is 'Divination to determine the right time for action' which seems like a fantastic premise for a fantasy novel. It was also very interesting to look at other words with 'chron' in such as 'Synchronicity' and 'Chronic' which I hadn't really analyzed before. I also just really like the way 'Chron' sounds when spoken, I'm not sure why. It just sounds nice to say and hear. Chrono.

Nerdlings in the IT department

I couldn't help but notice some of the things on the college systems are references to Tolkein's works (on a side note, my great grandmother lives next to his absolutely minted descendants in oxford) and some of them are rather obscure. I don't know much about IT, but I do know that something server-related is named 'GIMLI' and another is named 'Fimbrethil'. Ah, who doesn't remember Fimbrethil? A most memorable character indeed. I am sarcastic of course, as a google search revealed Fimbrethil to be... Treebeard's entwife. Remember the tree that Merry and Pippin climb in the second one that talks to them and helps spurn the ents into action? That was Treebeard. Fimbrethil is his wife. Huh.