2010_01_08 Board Meeting I

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2011_01_08 Petaluma

Petaluma, CA

2011_12_04 collop \KOL-uhp\, noun: A small slice of meat, or piece of anything.

collop \KOL-uhp\, noun:
1. A small slice of meat.
2. A small slice, portion, or piece of anything.
3. A fold or roll of flesh on the body.
He took up a knife and fork, and collop after collop disappeared.
 -- Allan Cunningham, Gowden Gibbie
There was cheesecake and spicecake, along with a most extraordinary dish, exactly like collops of bacon only sweet to the taste...
 -- Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt
Collop is derived from the Middle English word colhoppe meaning “a dish of stewed meat.”

2011_12_03 operose \OP-uh-rohs\, adjective: Industrious, as a person.

operose \OP-uh-rohs\, adjective:
1. Done with or involving much labor.
2. Industrious, as a person.
It seems to me a circuitous and operose way of relieving myself to put upon your community the emancipation which I ought to take on myself.
 -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
But what an operose method! What a train of means to secure a little conversation!
 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
Operose is from the Latin word operosus meaning “taking great pains.” It shares a root with the word opus meaning “work.”

2011_12_02 bobbery \BOB-uh-ree\, noun: A disturbance or a brawl.

bobbery \BOB-uh-ree\, noun:
A disturbance or a brawl.
“Allow me, Mr. Ivolgin,” Ippolit suddenly interrupted, irritably, “what's all this bobbery for, if I may ask...”
 -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
Kicked up the most delightful bobbery that had ever been witnessed!
 -- Anthony Trollope, Is He Popenjoy? A Novel
Bobbery, unexpectedly, is from the Hindu phrase bap re meaning “O father!” It was first recorded in print in 1816 in The Grand Master.

2011_12_01 altruistic \al-troo-IS-tik\, adjective: Unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others.

altruistic \al-troo-IS-tik\, adjective:
1. Unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others.
2. Animal Behavior. Of or pertaining to behavior by an animal that may be to its disadvantage but that benefits others of its kind, often its close relatives.
I thought you were an altruistic banker, nothing more, nothing less. A civic-minded altruistic banker.
 -- Inman Majors, The Millionaires: A Novel
An altruistic act is an act performed for the welfare of others. It is unselfish, as opposed to an act performed for self, which is selfish.
 -- Jack London, The Sea-Wolf
Altruistic was coined in 1830 by philosopher Auguste Comte. It originates in the French word altrui meaning “of or to others” from the Latin word alteri meaning “other.”