The Joys and Sorrows Of a Life At Sea

Learn about Darwin and natural selection through rap lyrics.

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“In 1984, George Orwell told the story of Winston
Smith, an employee in the propaganda office of a totalitarian regime.
Smith’s job at the fictional Ministry of Truth was to destroy
photographs and alter documents, remaking the past to fit the needs of
the present. But 1984 came and went, along with Soviet communism. In the
age of the Internet, nobody could tamper with the past that way. Could
they?”
Read the rest in The Ministry of Truth.

Dear friends,
after a small delay due to a broken chainplate, we have departed on 1. April, with little wind the first day (during which we caught a magnificent dorado) and night, then bumped through some 4m and rather unpleasantly steep waves the second day and night, and after another two days of beautiful sailing in 15-20kn we arrived to Kaohsiung. Here are some pictures we took before the departure and underway. Unfortunately, all of us were too lazy to take any pictures of the waves…

I have created a plugin for Zotero that simplifies management of Bibtex files. See LyZ: LyX plugin for Zotero.

It works quite smoothly on Windows and Linux.