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Trip to England
The last week of July, Dr. Wife and I took a trip to England, to do some sightseeing but mostly to visit our daughter and her fiancee. Our daughter has finished the requirements for a Master of Philosophy in linguistics at Cambridge (Newnham College). I have not yet really read her thesis, though I've skimmed parts of it. She submitted just ( Read more... ) -
Third run of 2016
Yesterday morning I did 28 laps in 93:17. That's a nice improvement, but more important than that, I actually managed to run on a weekday! Now if only I hadn't then gotten in to work after noon ... well, yeah, my schedule still needs work. -
Second run of 2016
It's a long weekend, so I didn't have any scheduling problems, and at about 9:45 I walked down to the track and put in seven miles in 97:01. That's more than a minute and a half faster than Saturday, and it's under an average of 14-minute miles. It was subjectively way harder than my first run, maybe because it was hotter out ( Read more... ) -
First (full) run of 2016
I have been a very bad runner this year. For one thing, the weather was depressing for a long time. But the more important factor is my sleep schedule. I want to wake up early enough to go for a run before I go to work, and I've been going to sleep too late and waking up too late to do that ( Read more... ) -
Petition to pardon Edward Snowden
Please look at this Whitehouse.gov petition to pardon Edward Snowden, and if you agree, sign it, and let your friends know it exists. Thank you. -
Recent reading
I don't know if anybody is waiting for Project Project Gutenberg to resume; I've never gotten a good sense of how many people actually read this. But it'll be a few more weeks, anyway, because I'm still in the middle of Hume's History of England. Still enjoying it, but not moving very fast. I'm in the reign of Henry VIII, and the history goes up ( Read more... ) -
Waiting for the Evening Star again
Over the last couple of weeks Venus re-entered the evening sky, passing behind the Sun on the far side of its orbit from us. I haven't seen it yet; it's setting just a few minutes after the Sun, and the sky is still very bright (and I have my usual trouble finding an unobstructed Western horizon). But I'm looking forward to its cheering presence. -
Reading aloud: Rushdie's Luka, Pohl's Crusade, Banks's Phlebas
Since I have been such a bad blogger, a considerable amount of reading aloud has gotten done chez nous since I last posted on the subject in February.
Because we so much enjoyed Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories when the kids were little, I decided to try the sequel, Luka and the Fire of Life. I at least found it an unsurprising ( Read more... ) -
What happened to Project Project Gutenberg?
Almost a year and a half ago, after reporting on Service's The Spell of the Yukon, I briefly mentioned that my Nook's battery was failing, and that there would be a "brief pause" in Project Project Gutenberg, my silly-but-to-me-fun project for reading things in the order that they were digitized by Project Gutenberg ( Read more... ) -
Me
I am still alive.