On Thursday, Sept. 1, Mia McDavid and I drove to Chicago for Chicon 8: The 80th World Science Fiction Convention at the Hyatt Regency Chicago . This was our 5th Chicon. Previously we had attended:
Despite some glitches, we really enjoyed the Con, and visiting downtown Chicago again.
I upgraded my Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) to 22.04.1 (jammy jellyfish), the current LTS release, last week. I simply followed the prompts from the Software Upgrader. The updates succeeded and the systems are completely useable, but there were a couple glitches.
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X130e laptop. It came with Windows 10 Home Edition, which does not work nearly as well for me as the Profession Edition I have on other systems. It hangs frequently. I have also installed Ubuntu Linux on it, which does better.
These days Chromebooks are everywhere, so I have become curious about Google’s Chrome OS Flex, the installation of which can turn an ordinary old (but not too old) PC into a Chromebook. Continue reading
‘Tá crann idir mé agus an doras. Ní maith liom crainn. Níl gá
leo,’ arsa Tomkins go crosta.
‘Tom labhrais atá ann,’ arsa an tAthair Pádraig.
‘Sssss! Éist!’
Nior chuala siad ach doras a oscailt agus a phlabadh arís
láithreach.
‘Duine ar bith!’ arsa Miss Sweetman nuair a d’fhill sí.
‘It must be the milkman!’ she said. ‘Excuse me, a second.’
She ran out of the room, closing the door behind her.
Father Patrick would have followed her out into the hall but Abraham beckoned him to stand,
along with him, in the bay window.
‘There is a tree between me and the door. I do not like trees. No need for[??] them,’ Tompkins said crossly[?]
‘That is a laurel there,’ said Fr. Patrick.
‘Shhhh! Listen!’
They only heard a door opening and slamming again immediately.
‘Nobody!’ said Miss Sweetman when she returned.
| ní foláir | it is necessary | |
| bagair | brandish, beckon, threaten, drive(animals) | |
| teannta | Strait, difficulty, predicament | m |
| i dteannta | along with, in addition to | |
| crosta | Fractious; troublesome, difficult; (Of child) Mischievous, contrary | |
| labhras | (Bay) laurel | m |
| plabadh | plopping, banging | m |
| láithreach | Present, immediate | |
Recently there were a few times when I was using VS Code under Windows and the response time got worse and worse. A reboot would fix it temporarily, but the problem would come back. A look at task manager showed that the Shell Infrastructure Host, sihost.exe, was using a lot of CPU. I thought about killing the process, but the dire warnings about system instability deterred me the first time.
I spent the weekend of June 16-19 at Carleton College. The occasion was my 50 year class reunion, for which I was a member of the gift committee, which in turn was a part of the overall planning committee. Mia (my wife) and I had a room on the third floor of Watson Hall, “3rd Watson” was how we would have referred to it back in the day. I don’t know if the current students refer to campus locations like that. I lived on “6th Watson” my senior year.
Ivory found in Kyiv in 12th century originated from Greenland – study
Fragments of walrus tusks unearthed in 2007 were traced back to Greenland, indicating that trading routes in the Middle Ages were more advanced than previously thought.
Botún, pl. -i, a smith’s paring knife; an unfledged bird; misfortune, irreparable mistake; ní raibh aon bhotún. ‘na béal nuair d’ith sé an fheoil … rinne mé mo bhotún …
‘Umf,’ a d’fhreagair Abraham.
‘Fágaimis Dia as an áireamh, cad ann a chreideann tú?’ a d’fhiafraigh an Duinníneach de.
‘Ahem!’ said Dineen to the eminent geologist looming behind him, the atheist Abraham Tomkins, in the National Library.
‘Umf,’ answered Abraham.
‘Let us leave God out of the reckoning, what do you believe?’ Dineen asked him.
| taibhsigh | loom | v |
| geolaí | geologist | m |
| aindiagaí | atheist | m |
| áireamh | Count(ing), enumeration; census | m |
Over the years I have acquired three anvils.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 