Celebrate Lughnasadh

Celebrate! Today is Lughnasað. The word Lugnasað is Gælic in origin and hearkens the Gælic god Lugh:1 In Celtic mythology, the Lughnasadh festival is said to have been begun by the god Lugh, as a funeral feast and games commemorating his foster-mother, Tailtiu, who died of exhaustion after clearing the plains of Ireland for agriculture. The word is Gælic, but the time is universal. Every culture that noted the...

Our soldiers should die in war

This is one of those essays that someone writes only because they have no plans on ever running for any public office, but I think it’s something important and something that needs to be said. Our soldiers should die in war. Now, before you fly off the handle and send one of Insitu’s unmanned aircraft to bomb my house, I’m going to lay a bit of foundation. I’m a disabled veteran who’s...

Wolf Leaves Salmon’s Tail

This is the real beginning of the background story on the design of my tattoo, for those interested in the long wannabe epic essays that I tend to write. I thought that a very “Native story style” title would be good, since I tend to write like I talk, and I talk like an Indian. I’ve broken the story up, however, into a series of (fairly) short posts, so that people will actually feel they can...

Time Capsule Over Wireless: No drive listed

Time Capsule set up with a networked harddrive on a wireless network? Pretty simple really, Apple squares everything away by itself. One small thing that caused me problems, however, so here it is– hopefully so that it can be pulled up in a search. My configuration is a Seagate FreeAgent 1 TB drive, connected to an AirPort Extreme. I can see the drive in Finder, and have iTunes set up to use it as the music...