Ninja Pajamas, and other good things.

Things I know about, that other people tend not to know about, that there is really no point in knowing about, but I know about anyway.

Someone asked for it, but since I haven't really collected enough to make a solid three part bit, you only get ONE, in the true tradition of the hasty ill-conceived sequel.

Have you ever gone somewhere or seen something that contained the words "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit sed do eiusmod tempor...." etc. etc.? Generally this is used for filler text in templates and mockups. Anyway, Lorem Ipsum is latinish text that has been used as filler in printing since the 16th century.

In graphic design, using this text (or any text) to dummy in text is called "greeking" which really makes no sense.

Lorem ipsum is derived from Cicero's De Finibus - an essay on ethical theory hailing from about 45 BC. You could rightfully say that it isn't latin at all, because it doesn't translate directly. However, the original reads "Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." etc. so you can see that someone just cut out some of the words or parts of words.

For those of you who are masochistic, that passage translates to "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain" because it was written before the advent of BDSM.