Odd Lots

[jeff_duntemann]

• Egad. No, egad squared: A major literary agency has asked to see the full manuscript of Ten Gentle Opportunities. The novel is done, but I still have to format it for submission and write the synopsis and logline. I'm going to be busy for a few days, that is fersure.
• IBM is taking a new slant on fluidic computers, one that operates via charged

Comments

[apostle_of_eris]

Back to analog for simulating brains?!?!

[beamjockey]

Having recently touted The Secret of Kells, you are aware, I presume, that the medieval copyist's cat portrayed in that film is a historical figure-- though he actually lived in Germany, not at Kells.

I am told that the Gaelic poem about Pangur Bán typically turns up in Irish classroms; we also hear it recited over the credits of the film.

[jeff_duntemann]

No! I didn't know that, and never thought to look. I did look up Aisling, because to me she seemed a tween female version of the Green Man, though the white wolf thing threw me off. Celtic mythology is more complicated than I thought.

I found two English translations of the Old Irish poem here: http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/pangur.ban.html