Dave Cameron Blink Watch: Developments Are Afoot
Because life is meaningless, morality is fiercely relative, and even the work of humanity’s most beautiful minds exerts its influence only for a few thousand years, the present author prefers to concern himself with mere trifles — nugae, a Roman person would likely say, were he not long dead and his language nearly as dead, too.
One such trifle with which the author has concerned himself — and has invited others to concern their own dumb selves with, too — is the matter of FanGraphs managing editor Dave Cameron’s blinking habits on (probably) award-winning television program Clubhouse Confidential, hosted by the vigorously coiffed Brian Kenny.
What one, upon inspection, has found is that Dave Cameron is wont to blink. What one finds in the very recent clip above, made possible by MLB.com and Maximum Technology™, is that Cameron blinks no fewer than three times, at the 0:54, 1:29, and 1:47 marks.
Here is the middle of those blinks, captured by even more technology:
And here is the declension of nugae (courtesy Wiktionary), which only appears in the plural form (as if one even needed to mention it):
Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
The vocative? Query whether and when one would ever vocally address frivolities.
Romans got hella apostrophic.
Indeed, though not nearly synechdochic enough, Cistulli’s left nut.
Bonus points for “hella” and “apostrophic” for what is surely the first time in recorded language those two words have been placed in apposition.
Yes! Words!