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Irish Class, Monday night, January 25, 2010
Irish Class, January 25, 2010
Rang Gaeilge, 25ú lá mí Eanáir 2010
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This is late, partly because of the sheer volume of the work, and partly because of
family developments that have taken
a lot of time.
Wes was sick two weeks ago, so his class did not meet. I stayed home. This was really a mistake, because
some of my classmates did turn up and joined Will’s class for
the evening. There they started reading a Sean
Mac Mathúna Story. Will has split the story into four parts, and the combined class worked through the
first part that evening. My classmates like it so that they wanted to come back for the rest of the story, so
I have to catch-up. It is worth it.
Geoffrey Burbidge, R.I.P.
From Cosmic Variance:
Geoffrey Burbidge passed away yesterday afternoon. He was a giant in the field of astronomy and cosmology, and (despite himself) was one of the main contributors to the establishment of the standard Big Bang model of cosmology. He was perhaps best known for his work in stellar nucleosynthesis (encapsulated in the B2FH paper: Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler, and Hoyle 1957, Rev. Mod. Phys. 29, 547), which in some sense established that we are all made of “star stuff”. There are few research papers that are widely known simply by their author’s initials (especially over 50 years later); the paper even has its own wikipedia page. (Off hand, the only other one I can think of is EPR.)
….worth a thousand words
Is it a language, or not??
Jings! Crivens! Most Scots dinnae think Scots is a language at all.
Both of my parents were linguists, so I regard this, as the Buddhists say, as “a question tending not to edification.”
Strange computer error
Linux e-mail notes
Dear News Media:
This old PC: Episode 2
(Continuing from Tuesday’s post).
Fluxbox is a nice lightweight window manager, but on this system it came up with a screen resolution of 1400×1050 — too high for my 59 year old eyes on a 15″ monitor. Continue reading
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 