Tunguska centennial
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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Visiting Tom
Tom, our severely autistic younger son, has been living away from us for the last two years. We go to visit him most weekends. Today I went to see him.
Busy Saturday
- Edited, printed, and mailed the hard copy edition of colgaffneyis newsletter.
- Tried to blacken some rivets. Continue reading
Some sewing
A couple weeks ago I decided I really should finish a project that had been sitting on my shelves for months Continue reading
Hebridean/Highland armor
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Galloglas
Found a long-lost favorite
A transcript of Severn Darden’s “Metaphysics Lecture”, which I heard many times on WFMT’s Midnight Special, is on-line.
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Better late than never
From Dante’s infernal crimes forgiven:
After 700 years, Dante Alighieri, Italy’s most famous poet, will have his criminal record scrubbed clean.
Florence’s city council has approved a motion revoking a sentence on Dante from 1302 which stated that he would be executed if he stepped foot in the city again.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 