“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” from other languages… 1. The son of a duck is a floater (Arabic) 2. A snake’s offspring will always be a long thing (Igbo) 3. A frog’s child is a frog (Japanese) 4. Like pig, like oink (Slovak) 5. Where will the sauce be poured if not on the rice? (Malay)

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Happy National Apple Day! Speaking of apples, the most brutal Irish curse I’ve ever come across is go ndéana an diabhal dréimire de chnámh do dhroma is é ag piocadh úll i ngairdín Ifrinn. It means “may the Devil make a ladder of your backbone while he picks apples in the garden of Hell.”

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People are sometimes surprised when I say I don't like LLM's – but I just got sent a copy of a magazine that I had given permission to reprint a short story of mine. There was an "About the author" piece that followed the story and not a single fact there written about me was accurate.

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I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

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Hef aldrei átt heldur. Kaupi bara frosnar McCain og hendi þeim í ofninn.

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