unipuutarha

Oh to live by the sea and have fresh bread every morning

— Virginia Woolf

I love the finnish word väkivalta, not because of what it means (violence) but simply because looking at it from a modern finnish point of view it’s meaning might seem different. as I said it means violence, but the indivual words väki and valta mean people/crowd and power/rule, respectively. so if you only knew those individual words, you’d think the meaning might be somewhere closer to ”people’s rule” as opposed to violence. however the archaic meaning of the word väki has been power, strength or force and it’s still in use as a compound modifier with that meaning, in words like väkijuoma (an alcoholic drink, lit. ’force drink) or väkevä (adjective, meaning strong). anyway that’s all for today, I found this all interesting.

Perfect standing wave on a computer-controlled wave pool

If you, like me, did not know what a standing wave looks like, please keep watching this until about halfway through when the whole pool is synced. It’s eerie and cool af