For a first post, you all (is that the plural of 0 as wall as >1?) will probably be wondering who I am, why I'm doing this, and what the heck is up with that name...
So let me tell you what the Sheldon Cooper man is all about!
Hypergnomemesist is my attempt to wield ancient Greek and sound really smart and scientific. Lets break it down:
Hyper = prefix for over, beyond, excessive. (also mathematically existing in more than 3 dimensions, which is pretty cool!)
Gnome = thought, opinion, thinking. Compare gnosis, or knowledge.
Emesma = vomit (the actual said contents). Compare emetos (m. vomiting... because throwing up is a man's past time! the women of ancient Greece did not vomit. they forcefully eject the contents of their intestines with probably some form of "a" sound at the end.). Medically speaking, emesis is the actual act (verb) of vomiting. If you are like me you look at that and say "slap an N on there and you have nemesis", which other than archenemy is actually the proper name of the Greek goddess of retribution. so delivering and dispensing divine justice and retribution are fun concepts, actually look at what the verb nemesis translates to and it is ... "distribute", deal out, dispense ...So the gods distribute retribution and justice, you and I distribute our lunch. I suppose you could say "Nemesis nemesis'ed her dinner on the floor, and so the janitor needed to mop up her emesma. He was angry at her emesis, and told her to go the nurse's office for an antiemetic (such as Pepto-Bismol). However, the nurse was inept and gave Nemesis syrup of ipecac (an emetic) instead. after Nemesis manages to pick herself up off of the floor, you can bet that she will be nemesis'ing some swift divine retribution!" ...Also note how my brief definition tangentialized (yes I make up words all the time) into this huge exposition on puke. this practice plays a significant factor later.
-ist = suffix for doer, agent of. basically you get to take any word and add "ist" to the end and now you have a noun that describes a person who "works that ***!" ... Like maybe, Nemesis: purveyor or justice. retributionist, justice-ist?
So... put it all together and this blog is called "The Excessive Thought-Vomitter" (a vomitter is one who vomits, a vomitist no doubt! see what I did there?) Use it in a sentence? why glad you asked... "Sheldon is such a hypergnomemesist, he just spews whatever comes out of that head of his on whoever is in-front of him at the time. Seriously dude, it's like all the time, no regard for whether they want to be covered in that ick or not. I have no idea what that guy's malfunction is! he's like a veritable mount Vesuvius of absent-minded pedantry!"
In summary this came about as I was having some discussions with some friends. I told them about how many crazy ideas I had... crazy funny, crazy frequent, crazy unique, crazy interesting, crazy witty, crazy garden variety... and my desire to eloquent myself with satire, hyperbole, sarcasm, and facetiousness. I told them of my need to express myself, to capture ideas before they evaporated. I also expressed my fears. My fear of ruining grammar, fear of digressing down tangents, fear of inappropriate capitalization, fear of run-on sentences and sentence fragments, my fear of polluting the internet more...
They recommended I start a blog. "A blog you say?" as I remembered the motivational calendar in my office.
"Yes" they said.
"But what of my fears?" I retorted.
"Grammar? the English Language? Horse-Poopy!", was their reply, "The internet is all 'publish now, edit later' these days!"
"...but", began my final attempt at resisting, "over the last decade I've spent thumbing my nose from my elite high-horse at all these bloggers below me? Self-importantly stroking their web-egos, oblivious to their true lackluster significance as 1.45041155 x 10^-8 % of the earth? See... I am elite! I know how small and insignificant I am! Wouldn't I be hypocritical to start a blog now?"
"Only if you expect/demand/feel entitled/ that people read it.", they replied.
"Fair enough." I said. "besides, Twitter, Facebook, these aren't good media to use as a repository for such grand machinations as which my mind can create!"
"remember what we said about expect, demand, feel entitled?" they reiterated.
"Oh, right..." I responded.
And so here we are! or... uhm. here I am. and you. whoever you are, now know why I'm here, and err. that mutual knowing is kind of like "us" or "we" right?
- caveat #1) I believe this blog would be pronounced something like "HAI-per-NOAM--eM-eh-Sist"
- disclaimer #1) I know jack about IPA and am making the above caveat up.
- disclaimer #2) I believe caveat is pronounced "CAHV-ee-AHT" and not "CAVE-EAT" like you are eating a cave... like if bears were really hungry, but their cave was made out of gingerbread like in Hansel and Gretel or something.
- self-deprecating-anecdote #1) "Caveat" was one of those words that I had always seen written enough to know what it meant, but have never heard anyone actually say it... So I had spent half of my life saying "cave-eat" and never being corrected, until I saw someone on TV say "cahv-ee-aht" and was like "WTF is a 'cahv-ee-aht'? caviar? cavalier? caviar-yacht? Oh I get it! ...I'm such a dumb@#%!" soooo.... How about a "Fly-Check" sometimes people!?
