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Log. Logarithmic. Logistic. Log. Etymonline includes: "It [the log-book] is a journal of all important items happening on shipboard, contains the data from which the navigator determines his position by dead-reckoning ... and is, when properly kept, a complete meteorological journal. On board merchant ships the log is kept by the first officer: on board men-of-war, by the navigator. [Century Dictionary, 1897]" Weblog. We blog. We belog. To the city ... Aristotle was correct when he wrote that man is an urban animal. Log. To measure speed. The volume and velocity that mark our urban anim ... ad ... versions.
But remark him in his study, when matter crowds upon him and words are not wanting—in what a continual series of small successes time flows by; with what a sense of power as of one moving mountains, he marshals his petty characters
R. L. Stevenson
