Cyde Weys Musings

Sometime last week I adjusted the HTML title of this blog to be “Cyde Weys Musings - Inscruting the inscrutable” (the subtitle is the new part). Yes, I’m well aware that “inscruting” isn’t a real word, but I do love fake words. This one in particular ironically invokes the bubbly technobabble that embodies much of what is wrong with Web 2.0. I first came up with “Scrutinizing the inscrutable” but that just didn’t feel right going with “Cyde Weys Musings” (which is, of course, a silly pun). It needed to be more cheesy, more tacky, more nonsensical (shouldn’t it be scruting?). I think the use of the word inscruting, which hardly rolls off the tongue, fits that bill perfectly. And logically it’s a contradiction, which goes well with the pun.

As for the meaning of the subtitle, inscruting the inscrutable is one of my favorite pastimes. I’m not particularly orthodox or conservative when it comes to anything, and I love speaking up on subjects that cause so many other people to waver. I’m talking about the tough issues: politics, religion, abortion, Intelligent Design creationism, Big Endian versus Little Endian, etc. Many beliefs that so many of us take for granted aren’t actually inscrutable; we just think they are; for instance, the widely held belief that old age is inevitable.

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