Glenn McDavid

David W. Anthony,
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. ( Read more... )

....in cyberspace.

Via Slashdot

As I suspected, I could not let go of this. I did some more research on the subject of my previous post about this. Then I made a slightly different change to the keyboard section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

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This way the left windows key is simply a toggle between the two keyboards; I do not have to hold it down while typing the accents. I got this from the Gentoo Wiki( Table behind cut )

I could change the line

	Option       "XkbLayout"  "us,us(intl)"

to

	Option       "XkbLayout"  "us,us(intl),ru"

which would include a Russian (Cyrillic) keyboard in the toggle rotation. This is about 40 years too late. When I was taking Russian back in college I often wished I had a Russian typewriter. I am sure that my professors, who had to contend with my handwriting, also wished that I had had one.

Mikhail Gorbachev admits he is a Christian

Mikhail Gorbachev is a Christian say Franciscan friars

Via The Angels are in the Details, which asks some good questions and comments:

This going to be a major shock for the old “Gorby is the Antichrist” crowd. Or maybe not. After all, it seems that Gorbachev has embraced an ancient, liturgical form of the faith.

A remark by the rector of our church, in this morning's sermon, reminded me of visit I made in 1973 to the house of the Order of the Holy Cross in Santa Barbara, California. There I met Fr. John Walsted, who is an icon painter. Our talks made a deep impression on me, which sustained me through the dark years when we were realizing the full extent of our son Tom's disability. I had the good fortune to meet him again in 2003, and to thank him for what he had said, and shown, three decades earlier.

Russia has long held a special fascination for me. ( Read more... )