I spent last weekend at Gaeltacht Minnesota‘s summer workshop at the lovely Winona campus of St. Mary’s University (Some pictures here). I went there for the first time in 2007 and have been back every year since. As always, I learned a lot and had a great time.
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Happy Anniversary to my own dear mia_mcdavid. Looking forward to many more.
Irish Class, July 12, 2010
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Methane bubble “doomsday” story debunked.
Via Bad Astronomy, with the note “…this ecological disaster sucks enough without adding hysteria to it.”
Refurbishing Hand Planes
Notes from a presentation by Ralph Truesdell at
Woodcraft of Minneapolis,
July 10, 2010.
From ‘Hollywood Accounting’ Losing In The Courts:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, under “Hollywood accounting,” ended up with a $167 million “loss,” despite taking in $938 million in revenue.
Via Slashdot
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 