Not exactly a day of rest
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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Change of Plans
Looks like I will not be driving to Bloomington today to recycle our old computers. The event shut down early because of an overwhelming community response.
Progress on various fronts
Monday Night Irish Class — November 12, 2007
Irish Class, November 12, 2007
Irish Class. November 12, 2007.
Checked
against Nick’s
Official Version.
The conversation in the first hour was a “debate” (conspóid)
on the merits of reading books vs. watching television and movies, and
talk about changes in the Twin Cities Metro in the last decade.
Geek goes to Church
The Psalm this morning at St. Mary’s was Psalm 17. In particular I noticed verse 3. In the translation we heard it went:
Weigh my heart, summon me by night
melt me down, you will find no impurity in me.
“Melt me down…find no impurity…” What did I think of?…. That the Psalms were written before the time of Archimedes (True, BTW).
Friday Night and Saturday
I must have been exhausted: I went to bed at 8:30 last night and slept until 9:30 this morning.
It has been a pleasant day in a low-key kind of way. Progress on various fronts for the house and colgaffneyis, and spending a lot of time with mia_mcdavid.
Mia wants me to make a weaver’s bench to sit on in front of her loom. So we went to the Textile Center in Minneapolis, where there was a loom just like what she has here and a bench that she finds comfortable when using it. Key dimension: Height 25″.
One bit of geekery: I got the streaming audio from “A Prairie Home Companion” to work under Linux (Slackware 12). It hung with Firefox, but worked with Konqueror (under Xfce). Different plug-ins. I should look into this some more, but for now I have to give a point to the KDE team.
All in all, a good Saturday.
The Hollywood Writers’ Strike
An interesting and informative analysis by <lj user="jeff_duntemann".
Clinton on Science
Scientific Integrity and Innovation: Remarks at the Carnegie Institution for Science. Also comments by Phil Plait, aka “The Bad Astronomer”.
Monday Night Irish Class–November 5, 2007
Sunday morning
It is not often that I can be brought to tears, especially in public, but it happened this morning in Church. Nothing wrong happened–quite the contrary. The parish was observing All Saints and All Souls Day, translated from last Thursday and Friday. Our Rector preached on grief–You can hear what she said here. That got me thinking about Tom, and hence the tears.
It was not easy, but it is important to deal with these things. So on balance I do not regret missing colgaffneyis pleasant and successful expedition to Fargo. What happened here was important. It was difficult at the time, but I am glad I went through it.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 