Z/Yen was founded in 1994, so now boasts an immense team of successful alumni. Supposedly, the Latin nouns alumnus and alumna mean "foster son, foster daughter, pupil" and are derived from the verb alere "to nourish", which is not too far from alea, a dice game, i.e. chance and risk/reward management. Z/Yen hopes that it has nourished its alumni, and perhaps they may nourish Z/Yen, but this discussion group was formed to help alumni nourish eac ...
Informal yet semi-regular pointers to things going on in Z/Yen you might miss if your head is down doing work, but you look up from time to time and wonder what’s going on.
S. B. Lady Daphne is one of the most famous of London's classic wooden vessels still sailing. 91 feet long (28 meters), 21 feet wide (6.5 metres), built in 1923 at a gross tonnage of 117 tonnes, able to transport 220 tonnes of cargo, Lady Daphne was one of the many thousand Thames sailing barges built for the English coastal trade from the 18th century until the middle of the 20th century. Now there are fewer than 40 barges left in Britain, and ...