mia_mcdavid and I are at Convergence, the biggest of the local science fiction conventions. We are having a good time. The programming seems more interesting (for me, anyway) than in some previous years.
At Convergence
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From Science Fiction to Colgaffneyis
Convergence is coming soon and colgaffneyis, as usual, will be well represented there. I wonder how many of my fellow members have read Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. I read it in High School, more than 40 years ago. I was immediately fascinated by the pike-and-shot era, and soon afterwards read Oman to learn something of the real history. I have been reading more ever since. It was all started by science fiction.
Yours in service
This morning I heard a radio announcement about local chefs doing charity events. I immediately thought of another interpretation of the benefiting organization’s name.
Priorities….
Out of the past
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Three day weekend
Unlike a lot of people, I actually worked on Friday. The office was very quiet. Then I took three days off.
Windycon
mia_mcdavid and I are at Windycon. We attended this convention for 20 years when we lived in Chicagoland and it, with some help from Capricon, defined our sense of what a science fiction convention should be. We are having a great time. Continue reading
More on Early Modern Irish
A few weeks ago I wrote a note on classical literary Gaelic/Early Modern Irish. Today I found more about Dán Díreach at Medieval Irish Poetry.
I hope I remember to look up Mo-chean do theacht, a sgadáin in Lent next year :-)>
Looking at the parent site, I noticed that the author is also interested in science fiction and filk.
The State Fair
mia_mcdavid was weaving this morning as a demo for the Minnesota Weavers Guild exhibit at the Minnesota State Fair. I followed along somewhat later. Continue reading
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 