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gmcdavid- November 20th, 22:50
- As seen on Jay Leno....
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- gmcdavid
- November 20th, 9:57
Gas mask bra secures Ig Nobel prize
Picture here.
I need to look at The Register ("Biting the hand that feeds IT") more often.
- Windycon photographs
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- gmcdavid
- November 18th, 17:24
- Interesting evolutionary path
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- gmcdavid
- November 18th, 17:23
- Irish Class--Monday Night, November 16, 2009
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- gmcdavid
- November 18th, 17:22
Rang Gaeilge, 16ú lá Mí na Samhna 2009
Five items (actually only three done in class). Quiz
( Read more... )From the video of Wes and Mary
cineál kind, sort, species /kina:l/ Cois. /k'ina:l/ C.O. An bhfuil tú ar meisce? Are you drunk? Tá mé ar strae. I am lost Tá mé dul amúl I am lost. Cleachtadh Uraithe agus Shéimhithe i gClásail Choibhneasta
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"Practise Eclipsis and Lenition in relative Clauses"
- Steampunk wheelchair
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- gmcdavid
- November 15th, 8:58
impressed
From Windycon.
- Windycon on Saturday
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- gmcdavid
- November 14th, 16:41
mia_mcdavid and I are continuing to have a great time at Windycon. The theme of the convention is Steampunk
- Working in space
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- gmcdavid
- November 14th, 14:31
We saw a great presentation about the recent mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. The speaker was Christian Ready, who has been a regular and popular guest at Windycon for many years. This latest mission has a lot of tasks that are easy to relate to, e.g.- Removing screws without dropping and losing them.
- Stuck bolts
- Replacing circuit boards.
- Changing batteries
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- Windycon
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- gmcdavid
- November 13th, 20:59
- happy
Mia and I are again at Windycon, a Chicagoland science fiction convention. We had a fast and easy drive down. We had dinner with some old friends from local fandom.
The convention looks good. Once again, we were impressed by the Dealers' Room. Though Windycon is much smaller than Convergence, the biggest SF event in Minnesota, there are many more booksellers here. There is also excellent science programming. It is our idea of what a con should be.
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- Irish Class, Monday, November 9. 2009
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- gmcdavid
- November 11th, 11:55
Rang Gaeilge, 9ú lá Mí na Samhna 2009
Five Items: A Quiz — Answer the question as Gaeilge.
( Read more... )Lenition and Eclipsis with Direct and Indirect Relative Clauses - a Toe Dipping.
[The worksheet, annotated.]
( Read more... )Direct relative clause
Cé hé an duine bhualann tú?
Who is the person that you hit?bualann pres. hab. of buail "hit, strike", hence "Who is the person that you hit on a regular basis?" [!]
No preposition, so this is a direct relative clause. Hence lenitition
- The way the world is
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- gmcdavid
- November 11th, 10:41
- Computer Necromancer
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- gmcdavid
- November 7th, 21:31
Somewhere on one of our old filk tapes is a song that begins "I'm a computer necromancer. I can raise your system from the dead."
So am I. ( Read more... )
- Irish Class--Monday Night, November 2, 2009
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- gmcdavid
- November 4th, 16:32
Rang Gaeilge, 2ú lá Mí na Samhna 2009
Paraphrase exercise
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From Wes's official notes: The shopping exercise, annotated.
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- "There's a map for that."
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- gmcdavid
- November 4th, 9:59
- A good college education
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- gmcdavid
- November 3rd, 20:30
nostalgic
Sister Edith Bogue, a friend for over 40 years, and a high school and college classmate, just wrote My Alma Mater tops the $50K mark. She currently teaches sociology at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth:( Read more... )
- Smart kid!
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- gmcdavid
- November 2nd, 17:56
- 37 years later...
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- gmcdavid
- October 30th, 10:46
- nostalgic
- Antivax nonsense
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- gmcdavid
- October 29th, 19:26
jeff_duntemann linked to Amy Wallace's article: An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All, an excellent article about the anti-vaccination movement.( Read more... )
- Einstein wins again
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- gmcdavid
- October 29th, 12:04
- pleased
- The President wrestles with a pig
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- gmcdavid
- October 29th, 11:52
Fox News relishes Obama administration scorn...the White House's stance also gave extra lift to the network at a time when it is on track to record its best ratings year ever. This year, Fox News has averaged nearly 1.2 million viewers across all its programming, a 16% increase over the same period last year, according to Nielsen. In the two weeks since aides to President Obama took after the coverage, the audience has been 8% larger than the previous two weeks.
Via Ann Althouse
If anything, the Obama administration has succeeded in reinforcing Fox News' identity as a thorn in the side of the establishment -- a role the network loves to play.
"We may be No. 1, but there is sort of an insurgent quality to Fox News," said senior political analyst Brit Hume. "And that's kind of our attitude: 'Hoist a Jolly Roger, pull out our daggers and look for more throats to slit.' This is tremendous fodder for us. My lord, we've been living on it."
