At colgaffneyis dance group tonight there were seven women and only two men, me and vitamin_g_prime for most of the evening. We are the two oldest active male members of colgaffneyis — long since eligible for AARP membership, We danced every dance while the women took turns sitting out. Eventually another couple turned up, increasing the Y chromosome count by 50%, but the two of us kept on dancing to the end.
Irish Class, May 4, 2009
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There were four students present. All of us had been in the same section of
Saturday’s workshop. So the class was
devoted to a review of some of the topics presented there, linking them to what we had previously
discussed.
| Cloisim é | I hear it. | it/him |
| Chuala mé é | I heard it. | |
| Tá mé á chloisteáil. | I am hearing it. | |
| Tá sí cloiste agam. | I have heard it. | it/her |
| Tá sé le cloisteáil. | It is to be heard. |
See Basic
Irish, chapters 19 and 20, for more on the subject.
Tonight I noticed a pattern in my recent eating.
| Dinner Today (Monday): | Spaghetti again with the leftover sauce from Saturday |
| Snack Yesterday (Sunday): | A couple bites of spicy Italian salami |
| Dinner Saturday: | Spaghetti with a red sauce including pork sausage |
| Dinner Friday: | Pork and vegetable pot stickers. |
Let’s make this official: I am going to try to eat some pork product (pork, bacon, ham, sausage) every day until this media circus about swine H1N1 flu fades away.
I am making a woodcarving knife. I started with an old file. Continue reading
This is something I have been wanting to try for a couple years. I finally got around to it today. The general technique is well known. See, for example, the following:
About to start Gaeltacht Minnesota‘s Spring workshop. My section will be taught by DG, who has taught my section at the Winona workshops the last two years. This should be good.
I have done the first four of the items on Tuesday’s list of things to do after last weekend with colgaffneyis. Derusting the tools was not hard. Steel wool and oil sufficed for everything except the drawknife. A wire brush in an electric drill took care of that. Finishing the froe club was easy when I could hold it in the leg vise on my work bench and use one of the big drawknives I have here.
I still have to finish the Gaelic notes. Since Sunday I have found out something more about colgaffneyis war cry, “faugh a ballagh“, which to include. It solves a small mystery.
How to glue this to that . Via Make:
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 