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Monthly Archives: June 2007
A Death in Pagan Britain
Family on the ‘Net again
An old (1949!) Time article about my father and his work: Isoglosses.
Another Reenactment Group
Clan MacColin of Glenderry, based in California, reenacts part of the Scottish Highlands c. 1570, so they could be grandparents of colgaffneyis. Their focus is much more on the Gaelic culture and society of the Highlands and Ireland, which I don’t think receive nearly enough attention in Clann. Most of our military interpreters wrongly portray Highlanders as simple impoverished barbarians, when in fact they were part of a rich culture with a written literature older than English can claim. As I have written before, I have a big problem with this attitude in colgaffneyis.
Still, it is the only game in town.
Real Sweatshops and Virtual Reality
The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer.
“Min leaned back and stretched, then set about the tedious business of resurrecting his character, a drawn-out sequence of operations that can put a player out of action for as long as 10 minutes. In farms with daily production quotas, too much time spent dead instead of farming gold can put the worker’s job at risk. And in shops where daily wages are tied to daily harvests, every minute lost to death is money taken from the farmer’s pocket. But there are times when death is more than just an economic setback for a gold farmer, and this was one of them.”
Via Slashdot.
Different Monday Night
Gaeltacht Minnesota has gone to its summer schedule, so I have (roughly) alternate Monday nights free. I had planned on going to a class at Woodcraft, for which I had registered by a telephone conversation with wolfsword. However, I got a voicemail this morning that the class had been canceled for lack of students, and that my payment would be refunded.
So I ended up going into Minneapolis with mia_mcdavid for a session of the Speculative Readings Series at Dreamhaven Books, where haddayr read three excellent very short stories and another author read a single longer work, which was very different but also very good. Gaeltacht Minnesota was quite well represented there–All three teachers and several students came to hear haddayr.
Times have changed!
Carleton Reunion
Busy Day
… but I think I did everything I really had to. mia_mcdavid is on her way downtown, where she will pick me up and we will drive to Northfield for my 35 Year College Reunion weekend. Yesterday I was in a bit of a funk, what with stress from work and other activities, and not feeling quite up to this. But going through the motions of packing, browsing the on-line schedule, and getting a good night’s sleep have changed that, and I am ready.
On the schedule I noticed that Boiled in Lead is scheduled to play tomorrow night. I wondered briefly how the College managed to arrange that, but the answer is simple: One of the members is a graduate. Connections….
More bad news for Pluto fans
Eris is more massive than Pluto. After being reclassified from planet to “Kuiper Belt Object”, Astronomers have now determined that Pluto is not even the largest such object. Eris, being heavier and further away from the Sun, has the bragging rights, at least for now.
Looking at it the other way, if you insist that Pluto really is a planet, you now have to admit that Eris is as well.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 
