OT>ScratchPad: CarpeNoctum, may I steal your name?

[rocklin]

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Hi CarpeNoctum:

I love your name!

Instead of Carpe Diem! ("Seize the Day!"), we have . . .

CarpeNoctum ("Seize the Night!")

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Incredibly empowering.

Imagine someone facing sleep disordered breathing, and how scary it all looks—then you tell then, in effect:

"Don't passively accept what the Sleep Medicine Industrial Complex (SMIC) has planned for you! Seize the Night! "

May I borrow it?

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I've read that the CEO of ResMed has a dream.

A dark, terrible dream.

He wants to put a ResMed mask on every man, woman and child . . . in the world.

That is his dream.

And our nightmare.

EDIT: My bad. Indeed it is Dr Farrell, of Resmed, who is angry at universities for pouring millions into sleep labs to study SDB instead of directing sufferers straight to treatments.

He says: "They are the sleep Taliban; they resist everything."

And I'm sure the vast industrial complex known as Philips / Respironics isn't any better.

They employ subliminal design to "push" their masks through your conscious filtering mechanism.

Yeah, I'm dead serious.

I'll explain it in depressing detail in a post someday.

F*ck them both.

F*ck the future they have planned out for all of us.

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Seize the Night, my sdb brother and sisters.

Carpe Noctum.

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[jamiswolf]

Hi Roc,
The dude known as CarpeNoctum probably never took Latin. Spelled it wrong. So you could call yourself CarpeNoctem and have a cool name and look smart too.
Jamis

[RandyJ]

I was wondering why he spelled it wrong... accusative case... 3rd declension, right?

This thread should have OT in the subject line.

[ems]

I was wondering why he spelled it wrong... accusative case... 3rd declension, right?


~~Forgit about it... when you can't spel, you can't spelle.



This thread should have OT in the subject line.


~~Rocklin -- take note!

[rocklin]

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Hi Roc,

The dude known as CarpeNoctum probably never took Latin. Spelled it wrong.

Hi Jamis!

I could be wrong, but I don't believe he misspelled it.

If you enter "Carpe NoctUm into a search engine, you'll get many Goth / Vampire hits.

Looking at his avatar, if I had to guess, I'd say he watches "True Blood" religiously.

(I know I do. Got V?)

So, I think it's possible that the "U" is quite deliberate.

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So you could call yourself CarpeNoctem and have a cool name and look smart too.

Excellent. Great suggestion, thank you.



Ultimately, I think I'll let the members of the board decide what name is best for this thang (y'all) I'm proposing.

But for now, CarpeNoctem or Carpe Noctem or (even Carpe Nox) really resonates with me.

roc

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[rocklin]

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I was wondering why he spelled it wrong... accusative case... 3rd declension, right?

This thread should have OT in the subject line.

Done.

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I was wondering why he spelled it wrong... accusative case... 3rd declension, right?


~~Forgit about it... when you can't spel, you can't spelle.



This thread should have OT in the subject line.


~~Rocklin -- take note!

Ummm, noted.



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[ems]

Ummm, noted.

Don't tell me you're conforming. Your posts and my morning coffee go so well together! My coffee usually hits the screen... not good... and you will soon have to call Dell and get me a new computer.

[rocklin]

Your posts and my morning coffee go so well together! My coffee usually hits the screen... not good...

Madame, please step away from your computer . . .



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As per UD:

carpe articulum: "Seize the moment"
carpe dame: "Seize the girl"

carpe diez nutsum: (When a NYC cabdriver cuts you off, gives you the finger, and yells "Carpe Deim, Sucker!", naturally, you grab your crotch and reply . . .)

carpe jugulum: "Seize the neck / jugular".
carpe manana: "Seize tomorrow" (Yo . . . I take it slow . . . for my motto . . . is carpe manana . . . amigo"

carpe peeum: (The act of seizing the bathroom before someone else does)


Finally, when someone insufferably pompous toasts: "In vino veritas" (In wine, there is truth).

You naturally reply: "Gesundheit! Carpe cerevisiam!" (Seize the beer).

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Quod erat demonstrandum,

rocum

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[2 B Sleeping Soundly]

Roc,

I am starting to keep selections of your comedic stylings. When enough are compiled and the movie eventually comes out (and we all know it will) do you want to play yourself, or if not, whom shall you chose to play you

John

[jamiswolf]

Rocklin wrote: Hi Jamis!

I could be wrong, but I don't believe he misspelled it.

If you enter "Carpe NoctUm into a search engine, you'll get many Goth / Vampire hits.

Looking at his avatar, if I had to guess, I'd say he watches "True Blood" religiously.

Morning Roc,

Well I have to confess that I never took Latin and my sources on the spelling were less then academic.

CarpeNoctem.TV... wacky conspiracy theory entertainment
CarpeNoctem Party Hostel...Budapest

So who do you want to believe: Eastern European Stoners, Conspiracy nuts, or Goths?

Carpe Omnious...Seize it all

Cheers,
Jamis

[chunkyfrog]

My suggestion: Carpe dormire --seize sleeping.
(please forgive my ignorance in Latin)

[mayondair]

Roc,

I am starting to keep selections of your comedic stylings. When enough are compiled and the movie eventually comes out (and we all know it will) do you want to play yourself, or if not, whom shall you chose to play you

John

Non compos mentis es, aut insanus es ?

[2 B Sleeping Soundly]

Non compos mentis es, aut insanus es ?

If that means what I think it means then no I don't understand Latin,
If it doesn't mean what I think it means then I have to say it is all Greek to me

[RandyJ]

Well I have to confess that I never took Latin and my sources on the spelling were less then academic.

You were not wrong, it was misspelled. The form "noctium" (with an "i") exists in the genitive plural, but as it was used together with "Carpe" it was obviously supposed to be accusative case, singular.

"Noctem" with an "e" is the correct spelling.

[SleepingUgly]

Did you know that "rectum" is Latin? I didn't (until just now). It means virtue or right. Hmmm...