Ursula Vernon's Hugo 2017 acceptance speech. (I went for Best Related Work.) Thanks to
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I haven't been finding a lot of time for reading lately, but here are a couple of short reviews.
Crosstalk, by Connie Willis
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is mise bó
tá mé an-caoin
léigh mé an dán
ar idirlíon
nuair is mian leat
canaim amhrán
fanaim rómhall
lím an t-arán
( for the confused )

Coláiste Lurgan (Lurgan College) is an Irish-language summer school in Connemara; it has a musical project called TG Lurgan which does lots of brilliant translated covers. Here are a couple, worth watching even if you have little or no Irish 'cause they're obviously having such a good time with it!
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I came across 17776 a little while back via
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TL;DR: if you're concerned about another Con/LD coalition, you should know the Lib Dem constitution was changed a few years ago to make that harder. Details follow.

There was a conversation over on
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I'm very lazy. Rather than having to keep track of Cambridge bin collection days manually, especially around holidays, I wrote a thing to convert it into an iCalendar file for me so that I could import it into Google Calendar. Here it is in case it's useful to anyone else:

#! /usr/bin/python3 ( Read more... )

Happy Christmas and happy Hanukkah (they coincide this year)! This is not especially festive except that I was reminded of it at Midnight Mass while counting verses of a rather long litany.

When I was a teenager, I invented what as far as I know is an original method of finger-counting; at least I was unaware of having based it on anything else ( Read more... )

I wrote this to my MP (Daniel Zeichner, Labour, Cambridge) today:

Dear Mr. Zeichner,

Thank you for your efforts on behalf of the Remain campaign. Although I'm normally a Lib Dem voter, I'm quite in agreement with your article in today's Cambridge News: this was likely a protest vote in many areas, it should never have been a referendum in the first ( Read more... )

ghoti and I have been watching our way through Once Upon a Time. It's basically televised urban fantasy, subgenre "mining folk mythology for fun and profit". The central conceit is that fairy tales are real and their characters live in other realms, until an event where an ensemble-cast-ful of them are cursed into our world and lose their memories of ( Read more... )