….But Tony Bourdain will be pleased.
Evolving Bigger Brains through Cooking: A Q&A with Richard Wrangham, Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and this Scientific American article.
Russia has long held a special fascination for me. Continue reading
Gaeltacht Minnesota held its Christmas party at Kieran’s last night. It was a good time, although the room was too hot and the band (when they were playing) too loud for easy conversation.
mia_mcdavid and I felt very fortunate: We managed to find street parking even though the Minnesota Vikings were having a home game nearby.
This evening St. Mary’s is having a Service of Lessons and Carols, followed by a festive dinner. Yesterday I was at the church all morning helping to decorate and move furniture.
Mia stayed home this morning, but I came in for the service. I did not want to miss an Advent Service, and I wanted to satisfy my curiosity about a bit of liturgical trivia: Continue reading
I have color-coded the in-box on my e-mail system (Lotus Notes) here at work. A yellow background indicates a message from a fellow sufferer DBA. A red background means a message from my supervisor or my manager. This gives me a quick assessment of the threat level urgency of what is waiting for me there.
From this morning: image behind cut
First notes toward a scéal which I did not present this week, but
might sometime.
Tá strus mór orm ag obair. Tá agam bainisteoir olc.
We looked at some Christmas carols from Carúil
na Nollag – Irish Christmas Carols. Given the Irish, we tried
to translate them. The standard English versions are included
here, which do not necessarily match a translation from the Irish.
Also, I do not entirely trust this site–A couple checks in
Foclóir Póca found some fadas were missing.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 