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Good News
My Carleton classmate NA has been undergoing treatment for cancer over the last few months. At her latest exam the doctor (A cancer specialist) said:
….he sees “NOTHING”! No tumor, no lymph node involvement, no new bogies!
He’s a surgeon so you just know he wants to slice and dice … but he’s going to see me again in six weeks (the radiation’s still at work for a few more weeks) and then six weeks after that. Somewhere in there he may do a biopsy, depending on what I’m doing with my blood thinners. He says there’s no reason to talk about surgery for months, in any case, and possibly never!
….We’re not out of the woods yet, but the path we appear to be on is a pretty one inhabited by lots of lovely living things. Including ME! <grin>
“A single ant or bee isn’t smart, but their colonies are.”
Historical Research Notes and Sources
Air Muir ‘s Air Tir ‘s Air Loidhne
The traditional motto of Clan Donald (MacDonald, MacDonnell, etc.) is Air Muir ‘s Air Tir (Scottish Gaelic), Per Mare Per Terras (Latin), “By Sea and By Land”. The version above, from the Gateway to the Clan Donald translates to “By Sea and By Land and Online”.
An Insult
kass_rants claims to have the Best insult ever! Not sure I would go that far without further research <g>, but I do like it.
Bhí scéal agam (I had a story)
Every Monday night in Irish class we are all supposed to tell a scéal–a story about something that had happened in our lives. The idea is provide to practise composing and speaking Irish. The truth value of the scéal is not particularly important–It can be completely made up. This is personally difficult, since mistakes are inevitable and I do not deal well with making mistakes in public. But it is obviously important, so I go ahead.
In the scéal I try to talk about something that really happened, simply because I want to relate Irish to the rest of my life. Last night I said a little bit about Convergence. This may have been too ambitious, since I had to look up some specialized vocabulary. However, the work was fun. Continue reading
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 