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Windycon on Saturday
mia_mcdavid and I are continuing to have a great time at Windycon. The theme of the convention is Steampunk
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Working in space
We saw a great presentation about the recent mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. The speaker was Christian Ready, who has been a regular and popular guest at Windycon for many years. This latest mission has a lot of tasks that are easy to relate to, e.g.
- Removing screws without dropping and losing them.
- Stuck bolts
- Replacing circuit boards.
- Changing batteries
The point was that even simple tasks are much harder in space.
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Windycon
Mia and I are again at Windycon, a Chicagoland science fiction convention. We had a fast and easy drive down. We had dinner with some old friends from local fandom.
The convention looks good. Once again, we were impressed by the Dealers’ Room. Though Windycon is much smaller than Convergence, the biggest SF event in Minnesota, there are many more booksellers here. There is also excellent science programming. It is our idea of what a con should be.
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Irish Class, Monday, November 9. 2009
Irish Class, November 9, 2009
Rang Gaeilge, 9ú lá Mí na Samhna 2009
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Five Items: A Quiz — Answer the question as Gaeilge.
The way the world is
Computer Necromancer
Somewhere on one of our old filk tapes is a song that begins “I’m a computer necromancer. I can raise your system from the dead.”
So am I. Continue reading
Irish Class–Monday Night, November 2, 2009
Irish Class, November 2, 2009
Rang Gaeilge, 2ú lá Mí na Samhna 2009
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Paraphrase exercise
“There’s a map for that.”
A good college education
Sister Edith Bogue, a friend for over 40 years, and a high school and college classmate, just wrote My Alma Mater tops the $50K mark. She currently teaches sociology at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth: Continue reading
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