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Went to a Wedding
Today mia_mcdavid, carpe_noctum_93 and I went to the wedding of a friend from colgaffneyis. Thoughts on the ceremony
Visit to Carleton
Fantasy before Reality
I stumbled on 5 Ancient Acts of War That Changed the Face of the Earth. The history is accurate, though the style and vocabulary are …. not what I used when writing papers for History 10 at Carleton 40 years ago. Also interesting are the parallels used to describe historical events. Mildly NSFW language behind cut
A good college education
Sister Edith Bogue, a friend for over 40 years, and a high school and college classmate, just wrote My Alma Mater tops the $50K mark. She currently teaches sociology at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth: Continue reading
A bad dream
Fun fact: Decades from now, with school a distant memory, you’ll still be having this dream.
It is true for me: I left grad school in 1976. Allowing for trivial variations, this is still one of my two most frequent nightmares.
The latest Minnesota college rivalry
What happens when you miss a meeting?…
….You get assigned a job!
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For all who have loved, or hated, calculus
I will derive. Via Slashdot.
FYI, I loved calculus, although the TI calculator in the video did not exist when I took it.
Linux as Gaeilge — a second look, with some thoughts about keyboards
As I suspected, I could not let go of this. I did some more research on the subject of my
previous post about this. Then I made a slightly different change to the keyboard section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 