Hi there. My name is Mathew Ingram, and until recently I was the chief digital writer for the Columbia Journalism Review in New York. I live in Canada. I post things I've written for work here, and other things that interest me, but I also publish and crosspost a daily newsletter called When The Going Gets Weird that is filled with interesting links, and a more serious newsletter with my thoughts about technology and culture called The Torment Nexus.
Traditionally (already in the Odyssey itself), Odysseus was thought to be so called because he was ‘hated by gods and men’, and the name derived from ancient Greek ὀδύσασθαι to hate (aorist middle) < the same Indo-European base as classical Latin odium odium n., but the true etymology of the word is unknown. Thus OED.
Always ready to spoil a joke™
Thanks Jonathan 🙂