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Busy Day
… but I think I did everything I really had to. mia_mcdavid is on her way downtown, where she will pick me up and we will drive to Northfield for my 35 Year College Reunion weekend. Yesterday I was in a bit of a funk, what with stress from work and other activities, and not feeling quite up to this. But going through the motions of packing, browsing the on-line schedule, and getting a good night’s sleep have changed that, and I am ready.
On the schedule I noticed that Boiled in Lead is scheduled to play tomorrow night. I wondered briefly how the College managed to arrange that, but the answer is simple: One of the members is a graduate. Connections….
More bad news for Pluto fans
Eris is more massive than Pluto. After being reclassified from planet to “Kuiper Belt Object”, Astronomers have now determined that Pluto is not even the largest such object. Eris, being heavier and further away from the Sun, has the bragging rights, at least for now.
Looking at it the other way, if you insist that Pluto really is a planet, you now have to admit that Eris is as well.
Seeing myself
I was looking at an Irish Grammar Book today, and working through a variation on an example in the text. I came up with
Ceannaím an iomarca leabhar.— “I buy too many books.”
Not pretty
.,..when you have two devices on a LAN with the same IP address. The amazing thing is that it was not immediately and totally disastrous. Most of the LAN did just fine. However, this caused a lot of the recent trouble I had with my employer’s computer here at home. Still not out of the woods, but the remaining problem I can clearly refer to the Help Desk.
It’s good!
I opened the first bottle of my St. Patrick’s Day stout, bottled 2 1/2 weeks ago.
What do you bury a dead programmer in?
Irish Note
In Irish class last night we saw a video about Irish Television. It is interesting to see how new Irish words are formed to deal with 21st century life. In modern Irish the term for “soap opera” is sobalchlár, literally “foam program”.
A modern look at an old question
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