Irish Class, October 24, 2016 Rang Gaeilge, 24ú lá Mí Dheireadh Fómhair 2016
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Is fearr filleadh as lár an áthe ná bá sa tuile.Better to turn back at the middle of the ford than to drown in the flood.Is cuimhin liom an t-amhrán Waist Deep in the Big Muddy le Pete Seeger Bíonn súil le muir ach ní bhíonn súil le cill.There ( Read more... )

From Gilbert & Sullivan on Leap Day For some ridiculous reason, to which, however, I’ve no desire to be disloyal,
Some person in authority, I don’t know who, very likely the Astronomer Royal,
Has decided that, although for such a beastly month as February, twenty-eight
days as a general rule are plenty,
One year in every four, its days shall be ( Read more... )

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On December 8 Metro Transit added a new express bus line to downtown Minneapolis, where I work. The northern terminus of this bus line is about 1¼ miles from ( Read more... )

Windycon 2011
We spent this past weekend in Chicagoland, at Windycon, as we did in 2008 and 2009 (Also see these posts). Our old friend Frank Hayes was Music GOH and Christian Ready was Toastmaster, so we had been looking forward to this. We were not disappointed.( Read more... )

In Praise of Crap Technology
I actually did have an iPod once, a sleek 30-gig number with a brilliant video screen and space for nearly half of my comically large music collection. I watched a video on it exactly once-Breaking Bad, season one-cringed with horror every time I dropped it and felt the $400 hole in my wallet for longer than I'd owned ( Read more... )

Teddy Bears' Breakdown

via this post by mdlbear

We have a vegetarian in the house, and are adjusting our family meals to meet her needs. I am OK with this, but I have these occasional thoughts ..... Well, long ago Steve Goodman expressed them much better than I will ever be able to:

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Bill Millin, piper at the D-Day landings, died on August 17th, aged 88

ANY reasonable observer might have thought Bill Millin was unarmed as he jumped off the landing ramp at Sword Beach, in Normandy, on June 6th 1944. Unlike his colleagues, the pale 21-year-old held no rifle in his hands. Of course, in full Highland rig as he was, he had his ( Read more... )

Higgs, Higgs, glorious Higgs