Golden
April 8th 2010 08:51
This post has a thing about gold, gold coins, Kontakt Player Gold, the gold in a family crest, and gold teeth.
Firstly, gold coins. This is a subject I've written about a number of times, because I used to write posts for Blogitive, and time after time, the subject matter was gold, or gold coins. There's only so much you can write on this, but here are some examples.
Kontakt Player Gold is the name of one of the programmes I use with Sibelius, the programme for writing music. I had an earlier version of this programme with my first edition of Sibelius - ed 4. Kontakt Gold was a huge advance over Kontakt Silver, which came with the programme itself - you had to buy the Gold version separately, and at considerable expense.
Now Kontakt Gold is included in the latest version (6) along with other possible sound files. If I put 'gold' into Google Desktop, I get page after page of results of files all with numbers for names, and strange extensions such as 'nki.' I think nki stands for Native Instruments - with Kontakt in the middle. But I'm not sure.
Our family name is Hannagan, which apparently is an anglicization of the Irish surname O hAnnagain, and means ‘the grandson of little Annadh’ or ‘the descendant of the little slow old man.’ Charming. So one of my long gone forbears was a 'little slow old man.' Well, he can't have been that slow if he had sons who took his name...
The coat of arms (or Blazon of Arms) consists of: Quarterly gules and or, overall on a bend sable, three crosses pattee agent. I'm not sure which of the crosses shown on the Wikipedia page belong on our crest, as I don't have a picture of it in front of me, only the description. (And unfortunately, the information I do have has the link to its origins missing.)
Anyway the gold aspect of it comes in because gules can stand either for red - for magnanimity - or gold - for generosity. Neat, eh?
And the translation of the motto on the crest is 'God is a tower of strength to me.' Nothing like having a line out of psalms on your family crest.
And finally 'gold teeth.' I discovered a review I did of one of Alexander McCall
Smith's books, 44 Scotland St in which I wrote: Pat meets an artist and his dog, Cyril; both of them have some gold teeth, while Cyril also drinks beer and winks at ladies. Obviously the dog's gold teeth appealed.
I nearly forgot the thing that set me off on this golden post: a photo I came across on another blogger's site today. It's perhaps more yellow than golden, but it fits the bill. It comes from Jehan Casinader's blog - he's a journalist here in New Zealand.
I love this t-shirt...think I might put it on all my blogs!
Firstly, gold coins. This is a subject I've written about a number of times, because I used to write posts for Blogitive, and time after time, the subject matter was gold, or gold coins. There's only so much you can write on this, but here are some examples.
Kontakt Player Gold is the name of one of the programmes I use with Sibelius, the programme for writing music. I had an earlier version of this programme with my first edition of Sibelius - ed 4. Kontakt Gold was a huge advance over Kontakt Silver, which came with the programme itself - you had to buy the Gold version separately, and at considerable expense.
Now Kontakt Gold is included in the latest version (6) along with other possible sound files. If I put 'gold' into Google Desktop, I get page after page of results of files all with numbers for names, and strange extensions such as 'nki.' I think nki stands for Native Instruments - with Kontakt in the middle. But I'm not sure.
Our family name is Hannagan, which apparently is an anglicization of the Irish surname O hAnnagain, and means ‘the grandson of little Annadh’ or ‘the descendant of the little slow old man.’ Charming. So one of my long gone forbears was a 'little slow old man.' Well, he can't have been that slow if he had sons who took his name...
The coat of arms (or Blazon of Arms) consists of: Quarterly gules and or, overall on a bend sable, three crosses pattee agent. I'm not sure which of the crosses shown on the Wikipedia page belong on our crest, as I don't have a picture of it in front of me, only the description. (And unfortunately, the information I do have has the link to its origins missing.)
Anyway the gold aspect of it comes in because gules can stand either for red - for magnanimity - or gold - for generosity. Neat, eh?
And the translation of the motto on the crest is 'God is a tower of strength to me.' Nothing like having a line out of psalms on your family crest.
And finally 'gold teeth.' I discovered a review I did of one of Alexander McCall
I nearly forgot the thing that set me off on this golden post: a photo I came across on another blogger's site today. It's perhaps more yellow than golden, but it fits the bill. It comes from Jehan Casinader's blog - he's a journalist here in New Zealand.
I love this t-shirt...think I might put it on all my blogs!
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