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Happy New Year 2023!

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It is a new year, 2023. Happy New Year! It may be a wild ride, but let's hang in there! Note: I do know that we are already somewhat into the new year ... but I didn't find time (or willpower, perhaps) to put a new post together, so the timing is a bit weird ... In 2022, the scary Covid-19 pandemic became mostly an epidemic and is on its way to end up as an unpleasant endemic. The scary Russian imperialism became even scarier Russian imperialism, now mostly focused around the Black Sea but with more nuclear sabre rattling and genocidal flair. (I hope they lose.) The unreasonably low inflation and interest rates became an unreasonably high inflation (with interest rates somewhat catching up). As always, each year the dictionary people present their "word of t...

Christmas 2022

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Merry Christmas   from   snowy   Montreal!   May   Santa   get you all the presents your heart desires,   whether he finds you   packed   with others   or alone in the   wilderness .   Here is how I spent Christmas Eve morning: - shoveled snow - while drinking coffee got kicked in the head by a vagrant Muse - composed a Christmas poem in Czech - translated it to English  (the Czech variant is better, but so be it...) Here it is, starting with a verse from a famous mid-19th century Czech poet   Erben , followed by my own thoughts:   Hoj, ty Štědrý večere, ty tajemný svátku, cože komu dobrého neseš na památku? Oh Christmas Eve, oh holiday - so mysterious is your ring. What memorable goods and things for people will you bring? Kotníkové ponožky pro skutečného muže, či kosmetický balíček - to dárek jeho družce? Ankle socks for a   real man , cosmetics for his girl/fan?   Vtipný dárek ostatním jež humor v kr...