Random kewl thing about Arabic: the young African gentleman who watched me write out the same words over and over for a few hours in the middle of the ER (not really relevant, but a fun place to practice) pointed out that Arabic script is often more like drawing than Romanized lettering. I hadn't thought about it that way, but most Muslim art really is centered around really arabesque'd writing when not geometric designs, and while it isn't image-based like Asian characters, even texts on it suggest certain flairs.

kewl word of the day: aporia, "the 'impasse' of an undecidable oscillation, as when the chicken depends upon the egg but the egg depends upon the chicken"

"And I say: 'Look! I have no hands!' But the people all around me say, 'What are hands?'"