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This brings back memories
I have several real slide rules at home, and I still know how to use them. I could not afford an electronic calculator until 1976, when I got an HP-21.
Via Slashdot.
End of an Era
Chicago Reader, RIP. See also Chicago Reader sold to Florida publisher. Via Planet Carleton and Elizabeth Tamny.
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>
Carleton Reunion
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….
I have thought so for a long time….
Division Street in Downtown Northfield (Minnesota) was nominated as a Great Public Space.
Connections at the Fair
haddayr and I were pleased to see two of our friends from our Irish Class stop by colgaffneyis camp. We introduced them and showed them around. c_nocturnum showed one of them how to wear a greatkilt, and bullettheblue sold him a bonnet that twolodge had made.
Another visitor was a computer consultant I know from work and his wife. Recognition was delayed a second because of unfamiliar dress: I had never seen him in shorts and T-shirt, and he had never seen me in a kilt. One of those “he looks familiar…” moments, then I recognized the corporate logo on his shirt.
I also saw one of my Carleton folk dance connections, who came by with his wife and child. He works for the college now, but Farmington is at least as easy to reach from Northfield as from the Cities.
Birds
From a Carleton classmate:
….big news from the Arb! M spotted a short-eared owl twice this week in the arb. This is a fairly big deal – he’s a pretty fair birder & has only seen one once – in Hawaii! He says that they are really ungainly flyers. He said it looked like it was flapping two ironing boards.
It looks like the restoration efforts are paying off – they’re beginning to see the return of new & fairly uncommon animal species.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 