Curious Meets Google

I occasionally get curious about random things and research the answers.

Today, I wondered why the letters "RX" are tied to pharmacies or prescription medication.

Here is what I found:

Once again, we can blame Latin for a curious term. In English, "Rx" doesn't seem to have any connection to "pharmacy." However it does in Latin, albeit in a roundabout way.

According to Yahoo! Reference, "Rx" means "prescription for medicine." The letters abbreviate the Latin word recipe, which is a form of the verb "to take."

Doctors write Rx in the heading of prescriptions as an instruction to "take" the medicine. The pharmacists filling the orders understand this shorthand (and hopefully they can read the doctors' handwriting) and print it on pill bottles with whatever else doctors order, such as "take twice daily with food." Somewhere along the line, pharmacists started using "Rx" on their storefront signs so patients knew where to get their doctors' instructions translated.

So there you go.

The $24 Crack

Jenny and I went to Home Depot tonight looking at materials for a bathroom project we hope to undertake in April.

We found the piece we want our sink to stand on, and the sink itself as a "this item only" price for a display model. It was the last one in the store. We decided we would get it, and then noticed the smallest crack on the corner of the sink. They had one more sink piece in stock (it was the last stand), and that crack ended up costing us an extra $24 as we looked to get the flawless one.

Overall, we were happy. Jenny enjoyed walking out of the store with a smile.

Why Is Fire Fun?

We had a going away party tonight for a friend who is leaving the state tomorrow. In doing so, we had a bonfire as part of the evening activities.

Guys in their late 20s have too much amusement with fire. We should not be trusted with lighter fluid, wood, gasoline, more wood, paper, boxes, glass, people, soccer balls, and more wood.

What is it about fire that adds immediate excitement to anything you were already doing?

Answers Please

I love when I get questions, particularly questions that ask about my interpretation and theology based on certain parts of scripture.

At the same time, I don't want to present my opinion as "the" answer when other people may vary greatly.

So I'm posting this question from MDK for anyone to answer. I'll answer eventually, but am hoping not to be first.

"Now that I am reading deuteronomy, it struck me that God doesn't seem very merciful to Moses in not letting him enter Canaan. Any insights to this?"

Photo Finish (a guest blogger edition)

Well, the time has finally arrived. Decisions have been made, photos have been printed and the framed product has been hung upon the wall. I must admit that no one was really capable of guessing all three photos that I eventually chose. One photo wasn't quite working the way I had hoped, so I added a new one into the mix. I created another one using a picture I had never shown before. Sorry.

Okay, here are the photos I chose and then a picture of them on the kitchen wall (the mattes I used are square so the signature is where it would show in the bottom right corner):