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Cake Mix as Gateway Drug
I am on a baking kick lately. It started with cake mixes and brownie mixes, thus the title, whipped up quick on Thursday nights to feed the hungry JCLers at Certamen practices on Fridays. I've made cupcakes, brownies, a pound cake, etc., all easy enough to build confidence until I felt like trying some "real" baking. Sucked in by Read more... ) -
Flowers aren't the only colorful things in those fields.
So I am working tonight on my translation of Eclogue 4 for Tuesday night's online Vergil class, and this is my new favorite Latin quote:
nec varios discet mentiri lana colores,
ipse sed in pratis aries iam suave rubenti
murice, iam croceo mutabit vellera luto,
sponte sua sandyx pascentis vestiet agnos.
My translation:
Nor will the wool ( Read more... ) -
Favorite Socks
I have a new favorite sock pattern. Ironically...or coincidentally...or perhaps just quite fittingly, it is from this book:
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A hat, cabled, from the top down = ???
I have a hat, in search of a name. I knit this hat for Uncle Bruce for Christmas, my own design. I wanted to try out starting a hat at the top and working down to have better control over the length of it, rather than casting on at the bottom edge, knitting up until it seemed about the right place to start shaping the crown, then working crown ( Read more... ) -
Is it spring break yet?
What, do I still have a blog ( Read more... ) -
Calling all Latinists...
If you can speak Latin (I don't think you have to be fluent - just familiar enough with it to be comfortable with the pronunciation), Rosetta Stone is looking for participants for an audio data collection study. Once they confirm that your recordings are of good enough quality for them to use (I really don't know how good that means, but again, as ( Read more... ) -
The rapper in this video has to be a teacher.
Found this at sartorias' journal:
See, this is the sort of thing I try to get my Latin and French kids to do, although not about science. I had a girl write a "Rap of the Sabines" once but we couldn't get anyone to perform it. Ah, so sad. -
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Lines of Latin translated so far this week: 952 ( Read more... ) -
Tempestas Floridiana mutabilis est, ut personae in libro "Metamorphosibus".
I've translated so much Latin this week that I had to use it for the title! This year I am attending my second Summer Latin Institute on the University of Florida campus. Spring and fall I take distance courses with UF online for my Master of Latin degree (at which I laugh, because in Latin, that degree would be called Magister Latinae....or ( Read more... )
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