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Mr. Strega, being an alpha geek, enjoys reading Slashdot (every day), and came across the following article:

"Harvard University celebrated its 356th Commencement on Thursday. It is tradition at Harvard is to have an undergraduate deliver a Latin Salutatory address. This year's speaker, Charles Joseph McNamara, delivered an address all about Star Wars in Latin! TheForce.net has a write-up of the event, and the speaker was really hilarious. He apparently doesn't like Star Wars that much, but it's still awesome. The video is available online, and you too can see him do a Yoda voice and make light-saber motions ... in front of over 30,000 people. The speech is under "Morning Exercises" on the Harvard site. The Latin Oration begins at about 1:09:30."

Viewing this video clip takes a bit of work, but is interesting to see (the commencement speaker is an actor as well as a classics scholar, so he's pretty
fun to watch). You have to have Real Player. Click on the link, which will take you to the Harvard commencement site, click on "Morning Exercises." RealPlayer (if you have it) should open at that point, and if you want to skip the dulcet tones of the Harvard choir and such, you can fast-forward the film (Slashdot recommends 1:09:30, but 1:10 is okay). His speech is about seven minutes long.

Thanks to all who have wished me a happy birthday, by the way! The theme of my birthday was "The White Raven," a cafe in my town, and I got my own personal stash of Larry's Famous Chai, among other things, and one of the cool candles they sell there.
So now I can pretend I am at the Raven, even when I am home.