Saturday, May 7, 2016
Quick hit for family members
I was riding down the highway and saw (ooh, I just remember I saw what had to be a condor; I've never seen a bird that large except Rodan, from Japan), a sign that read "Loma Vista". First thought through my mind was that it probably means "dynamite view". Now - anyone want to decipher that?
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Loma Is a letter of map amendment, or an application to change a map.
ReplyDeleteFrom the Italian visto (sight), vista means a view. However, a second definition could be constued as an extensive mental view (as over a stretch of time or a series of events); a large number of things that may be possible in the future
Much like your trip on the the ICT, you have a view of the future that will result in changing many maps.
There's your sign.
(Oh, I though we were playing Balderdash)
(Remind me not to play Balderdash with Lisa for money. . . .)
ReplyDeleteThe true story--no offense, Lisa!--is that our dear cousin Phil, aka Mr. Alofasuden, is the son of the man we all knew as Uncle Diney. As in Dynamo, for his compact and energetic presence. His grandfather, which would be Phil's great-grandfather, if I've got the generations right, was one of the founders of a southern Californian utopian community in the . . . I'll guess the 1920s, around the time that Los Angeles was becoming a metropolis. The grandfather's given name and middle initial were handed down to son and then to next son, which was Diney. Whose middle initial was "I." (for Irvin) and whose actual first name was . . . Loma.
Heeheehee.
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