For the first weekend in months I did not log on to my work computer. I was checking my Blackberry, but I had no planned tasks and no emergencies came up.
What I did not do this weekend….
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Stocking the organ banks
We have a couple old computer monitors waiting to be properly recycled. Since I am finding myself more interested in electronics lately I decided to save any useful components. Following the advice here, I was well aware of the dangers. So I took a screwdriver and made a probe for discharging any lingering high voltage: Continue reading
Fiber display stands
I made these today for mia_mcdavid, for her business.
Apologies for the cluttered background. There is a lot going on in our workroom. Continue reading
Think your Mac can’t be hacked
….Think again.
Via Slashdot
“Think Green”
With “encouragement” from management, many of my fellow employees now have this as part of their e-mail signature:
Please consider the environment before printing this email.
At least one has made the message even stronger:
Think Green! Please do not print this e-mail unless
absolutely necessary.
While another is less enthusiastic:
Please consider the unemployed loggers before printing this email.
Long Overdue
Self-Rescuing Princess kids T-shirt
A lot done today
- A good day at work.
- A long walk at lunch hour.
- colgaffneyis dance group this evening.
- A little time on a woodworking project.
- Edited and posted my notes from last night’s Irish class. Sometimes I don’t get those up until Thursday or even Friday.
Cold war tech
Soviet nuclear detonator console used in the fifties and sixties
Part of the Equipment from the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site.
Via Make.
Irish Class, April 13, 2009
Irish Class, April 13, 2009
Rang Gaeilge, 13ú lá mí Aibreáin
Again most the lights in
the classroom were out this evening when I arrived. However, this time I was able to
find one of the building staff and get it fixed before class started. Much better!
(Looking at the cuts
on my left hand:)
I fought the saw, and the saw won.
Throid mé an sábh, agus
an sábh bhuaigh.
| scríob | scratch, scrape | f2 |
| scráib | scratch, scrape | f2 |
| sméar | (black)berry | f2 |
More on the special construction for the case of
Tá + verbal noun +
pronoun object
New language
From War By Any Other Name: Obama’s new terminology has started a trend
The Obama administration has come under intense criticism for replacing the term “war on terror” with the emaciated euphemism “overseas contingency operations,” and for referring to individual acts of terror as “man-caused disasters.”
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Yet, if the intention of the Obama administration is to tone down the confrontational rhetoric being used by our enemies, the effort is already reaping results. This week, in a pronounced shift from its usual theatrical style, the Taliban announced that it will no longer refer to its favorite method of murder as “beheadings,” but will henceforth employ the expression “cephalic attrition.”
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In Darfur….the archaic term “genocide” — so broad and vague as to be meaningless — has now been supplanted by “maximum-intensity racial profiling.”
Via Ann Althouse
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 