Actor’s Risque Past Halts ‘Adam’ Film
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Creationist Museum hires the old Adam
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Monthly Archives: June 2007
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Great history
I have been reading Seán O’Fáolin’s The Great O’Neill: A Biography of Hugh O’Neill Earl of Tyrone, 1550-1616. Hugh O’Neill led the last and greatest Irish revolt against Queen Elizabeth of England. Continue reading
Medieval Helpdesk
From Cosmic Variance
Politics in the background
I am waiting for mia_mcdavid. Her mother is watching political commentary on TV–just after the Republican debate. All I can think of are H.L. Mencken quotations:
- A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
- A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
- In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
As I often find…
…H.L. Mencken said it very well:
“The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.”
Via GetReligion.
Druids: Myth and Reality
Mia’s Mother is here
Gen, mia_mcdavid‘s mother, arrived yesterday for a visit. She will be staying until next Saturday. This is good. I get along with her very well. last night she took us to a great dinner at a well known (to foodies) restaurant in St. Paul. A rare visit to the culinary stratosphere.
Gen is a political junkie, so we have had the Democratic presidential debate on for the last couple hours. Very low signal-to-noise ratio.
Difficult Sunday
Trouble at work all afternoon, and through dinner. I had to drive into downtown Minneapolis three times. Not fun. Very obscure issues with SQL Server connectivity. We seem to have ended up with something that works, but there are still some unexplained issues.
New Tool
After my computer class finished today I went to the local Woodcraft store, which is in the same part of the Metro. wolfsword was working there and was in at the time. I had a discount card, so I did something I have been wanting to do for a long time: I bought a Lie Nielsen block plane. Lie-Nielsen makes some of the best hand tools for woodworking available today. Perhaps some day I will be able to get one of their larger planes as well. Meanwhile, a good block plane is a very useful thing to have in a shop, and I expect this one will serve me well.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 
