Thursday, August 6, 2026

Cuillin, Scotland: Happy Clan MacLeod Parliament on the Isle of Skye this first week of August 2026


Happy Clan MacLeod Parliament on the Isle of Skye this first week of August 2026 


Mark and Tammie, All,  

Happy Clan MacLeod Parliament on the Isle of Skye this first week of August 2026 - https://www.clanmacleod.org/parliament/parliament-2026/clan-macleod-parliament-august-2026-update/!

Are you on the Isle of Skye at Dunvegan castle now, or on the Isle of Raasay where Norman MacLeod father of James MacLeod, our ancestors, came from, before James MacLeod emigrated to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - and became a kilt maker and tailor - in the 1820s, I think, n'est-ce pas?


How are you doing? How is your MacLeod genetic genealogy further research going. Mark? 


Thanks to Tammie Vawter, Mrs. Pacific MacLeod, 

Am recalling a 

'MacLeod Piping Stories and Traditions and some of PM Donald MacLeod's Bagpipe Music by Scott MacLeod June 2011' 

talk and bagpiping performance I gave in 2011 at the Clan MacLeod Pacific gathering - https://clanmacleodusa.org/pacific.html -  in the SF Bay Area:


Academia.edu
(PDF) MacLeod Piping Stories and Traditions and some of PM Donald MacLeod's Bagpipe Music by Scott MacLeod June 2011



which talk is also here - 

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Kilt rock 

Would be fun to explore this further at another  Clan MacLeod Parliament on the Isle of Skye! 

Was taking stock of my Scottish piping generativity and see the PS.

Greetings to all the MacLeods at Clan MacLeod Parliament on the Isle of Skye.

Hold fast, As Aye, best wishes, 
Scott

Mark, next time we see each other, will you help me edit the MacLeod family parts ~






PS

taking stock of my Scottish piping generativity - 


Scott GK MacLeod 2 Scottish bagpiping albums +

Searched 

Scott GK MacLeod 2 Scottish bagpiping albums "Honey ..." SoundCloud 4 + World University and School Bagpiping wiki schools 





Scott GK MacLeod 



2 Scottish small pipes' bagpiping albums "Honey ..."



Scott GK MacLeod's 


'Honey in the Bag' 

Scottish Small Pipes' Bagpiping
Berkeley, California


AND

'Honey Piobaireachd'

Scottish Small Pipes' Bagpiping album
Berkeley, California 



Scottish Small Piping & Highland Piping on 
Youtube 

eg
'Seamus MacNeill' on the Scottish Small Pipes (from Canyon CA 94516) 





SoundCloud 



4 World University and School Bagpiping wiki schools 





(and beginning Northumbrian and Uilleann Piping wiki schools too) 



All in the WUaS Music School -





Innumerable bagpiping  blog posts


eg 



And blog label 



Wanting to grow further a new genre of piping music 

Piobaireachd Rock and Roll Blues Laments

eg 

Improvising with Piobaireachd melodies 
Playing with the Allman Brothers and Jerry Garcia on 12/31/1973 ...


And in real real time in a realistic virtual earth for music making (think Google Street View with time slider) as music studio in a WUaS Multimedia Room from our homes 


Are you on Twitter ?


World Pipe Band Championships Glasgow Scotland 9-15 August 2026 #RealisticVirtualEarth, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForPerformance






Retweeting - 



Academia.edu
(PDF) MacLeod Piping Stories and Traditions and some of PM Donald MacLeod's Bagpipe Music by Scott MacLeod June 2011



Saturday, September 1, 2012

Kilt rock 



-- 
- Scott MacLeod 
- 415 480 4577


- World University and School
- (planned for all instruments in all 7,159 living languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages - each a wiki page for open teaching and learning to begin)




--


Society, Information Technology, and the Global University, (forthcoming, Academic Press at World University and School, 2026) 

Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)  
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 


2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
- wuas_ceo@worlduniversityandschool.org





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Paul Murton BBC MacLeod history Isle of Skye - on a Clan MacLeod web site

searched on too - 
Paul Murton BBC history of the Hebrides email address Linkedin Twitter



3 videos of MacLeod history

1 
Highland Clans - Episode 3 - MacLeod (1/3)

 
2
Highland Clans - Episode 3 - MacLeod (2/6) 




3
Highland Clans - Episode 3 - MacLeod (3 /3)


from - 
Hugh MacLeod makes appearance in this episode (first time I've 'met' him)


Hugh MacLeod of MacLeod Skye email











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Hi, Jeff, 

Thanks for the invite. I can't seem to get into the Punchbowl invite (seems to be a phishing scheme for password). When and where is your party? Is this a bagpiping party for music-making even potentially? 

I only play the Scottish small pipes with bellows these days (due to an ear condition I developed).

Want to explore playing harmonies / seconds together on the Scottish small pipes, if you have a set? 

Gave lessons to Rees Parker (above) some years ago - and he started teaching a class at UC Berkeley when he was a student there.

Was taking stock of my Scottish piping generativity and see the PS (above).

Best wishes,
Scott






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Continuing - 

Dear Hugh (MacLeod of MacLeod, and please forward - info@dunvegancastle.com), Mark and Tammie (all on the Isle of Skye at Dunvegan Castle presently, I think), MacLeod family, All,  


Greetings from Berkeley, California - 

Just blogged about this email thread and more - 



Also, I found too these 3 films about MacLeod history by Paul Murton (on the Clan MacLeod USA web site) very edifying as well - a great way to participate in the Clan MacLeod Parliament 2026 virtually in a sense - 


Paul Murton BBC MacLeod history Isle of Skye - on a Clan MacLeod web site

(searched on too - 
Paul Murton BBC history of the Hebrides email address Linkedin Twitter)



3 videos of MacLeod history

1 
Highland Clans - Episode 3 - MacLeod (1/3)
https://youtu.be/TAe8Kg53mkU

 
2
Highland Clans - Episode 3 - MacLeod (2/6) 



3
Highland Clans - Episode 3 - MacLeod (3 /3)
https://youtu.be/YUCxXR6ZUh0

Hugh MacLeod makes an appearance in this episode (first time I've 'met' him)


Hugh MacLeod of MacLeod Skye email


Found Paul Murton on Twiter too - 

Paul Murton
@PtmurtonG
Another day - another bay!

& here - 


Happy Clan MacLeod Parliament on the Isle of Skye this first week of August 2026,
Scott


PS
There's a budding wiki "MacLeod Society Worldwide" school at free-to-students World University and School (building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages, and like Wikipedia in 348 languages, and planning to develop in all 7159 living languages) - 
'MacLeod Society Worldwide' - 
(and see the Bagpipe Tutorials' wiki school here too for example)
stay tuned ...


PPS
Mark, next time we see each other (eg in Maine or on Skye ...), will you help me edit the MacLeod family parts ~
http://scottmacleod.com/ScottMacLeodFamilyHistory.htm ?


https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/genes








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4 @WorldUnivAndSch #WUaSBagpipingWikiSchools


4 @WorldUnivAndSch #WUaSBagpipingWikiSchools eg 
All in the #WUaSMusicSchool for All Instruments ever in all Languages 




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Dear Hugh (MacLeod of MacLeod, and please forward - info@dunvegancastle.com), Mark and Tammie (all on the Isle of Skye at Dunvegan Castle presently, I think), MacLeod family, All,  

Congratulations on the Clan MacLeod Parliament on the Isle of Skye this first week of August 2026, which I think may have concluded today!

MacLeod regards, 
Scott

Thursday, August 6, 2026
Cuillin, Scotland: Happy Clan MacLeod Parliament on the Isle of Skye this first week of August 2026 



PS

Just added this to these free wiki bagpiping schools and more for all the MacLeod musicians on the Isle of Skye and around the world (and see too the PPS) 

4 @WorldUnivAndSch #WUaSBagpipingWikiSchools eg 
All in the #WUaSMusicSchool for All Instruments ever in all Languages 


to the 

PPS

and regarding 

What's a rough timeline to getting to real real-time music making or quasi real-time music making say from WUS World University and School multimedia studios or multimedia rooms in rooms in our houses so that individual players of musical instruments could play in real real-time across the globe and between countries?



Regional quasi real-time music collaboration is already possible today, while true global real-time synchronization is constrained by the speed of light and relies on an evolving 5-to-10-year technology timeline.

Timeline & Physics Breakdown

  • Now (Available Today): Regional Real-Time (< 500 Miles) Using software like JackTrip, Yamaha SYNCROOM, or Jamulus over fiber internet, musicians within roughly 300–500 miles can achieve sub-25ms latency—the threshold where audio delay feels natural and imperceptible.

  • The Global Physical Limit (Speed of Light) Light travels through fiber at ~200,000 km/s. Transmitting raw audio round-trip across oceans (e.g., California to Asia or Europe) incurs an unalterable 100–200ms latency floor, making unassisted synchronous jamming physically impossible across continents regardless of bandwidth.

  • 2026–2030+: Global Quasi Real-Time via AI & Control Signals To achieve global ensemble play from home or World University and School studios, systems are shifting toward:

    • Predictive Audio Models: AI algorithms predicting lost/upcoming audio buffers in real time to mask latency.

    • Control Signal Streaming: Transmitting local instrument control data (like MIDI or spatial parameters) instead of full audio streams, paired with server-side beat quantization.







PPPS
will add here further - 


As Aye, Scott





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Saturday, August 8, 2026 


Dear Mark, Hugh (MacLeod of MacLeod at Dunvegan), Clan MacLeod Parliament 2026 gathering online (by extension) in this email thread, all, 

Greetings the day after the Clan MacLeod Parliament 2026 gathering - and on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, if you're still there, Mark, and all. 

After watching your excellent MacLeod genealogy genetics' video (which just came onto my smartphone near Tilden Park near Inspiration Point in the San Francisco East Bay) - 

The DNA of Leòd's ancestors and descendants

Mark MacLeod presented this talk on August 4 at the 2026 Clan MacLeod Gathering and Parliament on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

Here we use Y-DNA results from the MacLeod DNA Project at FTDNA to characterize the genetics and genealogy of the ancestors and descendants of the progenitor of Clan MacLeod, a man named Leòd.

By Mark K MacLeod, Andrew P. MacLeod, Colin Macleod, and Rod MacLeod



... This partner Yoga video popped up from Pinterest boards - 

Partner Yoga video  

I added this to one of three Yoga Pinterest boards, I'm active with, like - 

8 Limbs of Yoga 
(http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html ... which in a way is a riff with '8 Limbs of Yoga')


Appreciating your very clear, well-reasoned and thought out genetics tied to MacLeod-name family origins, identity, troop bondage, ethnic community through time and the name MacLeod, the genetic genealogy historical focus, and the need for more data regarding specific genetic molecules that you posit originated with the Leòd ( c. 1200 to 1290). With your Stanford University geo-physics' degree, how can MacLeods all over the world develop as biologists and geneticists further to study these questions ... and even in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics at World University and School for free-to-students' #freeWUaSdegrees online from home ... and have kids too, as well as send in their MacLeod Y chromosome data ... and to grow these databases and data sources  e.g. in a #RealisticVirtualEarthFor Genealogy eg at an emerging https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland World University and School, from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (as well as matriculate at Sabhal Mor Ostaig on Skye to study in Scots Gaelic too, and possibly meet life partners there too)? 

But when I went to try to send my Y-Chromosome in to https://www.familytreedna.com/products/y-dna and began to check out eg -

Discount code -

GP20CMacLeod26
at about the 33:25 minute marker

for a 

Entry-level test for the direct paternal line
Connect with distant paternal-line relatives
Provides a predicted haplogroup for migration insights

to lower the cost of this Y-DNA test from $79.99 to $59.99 or similar - 

I got this message - 

"This coupon requires a greater amount to be purchased"


Mark, would you suggest my calling them in Houston, Texas, (and other people in this email thread too who might send in their Y-Chromosome data to https://www.familytreedna.com/contact), - and to make a connection on the phone with them regarding MacLeod DNA project? (I don't want to become a member of somewhat expensive https://www.familytreedna.com/), having been a member of ancestry.com and let that go).

I'm continuing to find the free WikiTree.com 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524#Ancestors

edifying, helpful (and am even seeking eventually to interoperate it with free wiki World University and Schools' #RealisticVirtualEarth (and see Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306. - mentioning a #RVE for the first time other than World University and School that I know of) #RVEforGenealogy and a #RVEforDNA a #RVEforMolecules, a #RVEforElectronicHealthRecords and our #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords re a #RVEforGenetics).


I searched for and found on Wikitree 

how-do-i-enter-results-from-a-y-dna-test? 

How best to proceed? And thanks for your super "The DNA of Leòd's ancestors and descendants" which you shared with the 2026 Clan MacLeod Parliament on Skye on August 4, 2026!

Thoughts? 

Scott
Will add this further here, especially your video - 

Chillin' Scotland - 
rather 

Thursday, August 6, 2026

Cuillin, Scotland ... , and would like to hill-walk some of these mountains eventually (having only been to the Isle of Skye about twice I think, having studied for 2 full years in Scotland, at Fettes College high school in 1977-1978, and at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies in 2003-2004, just before beginning ethnographic field work at Harbin Hot Springs' Heart Consciousness Church in NorCal in around 2005) - 


PPS
Here's the beginning of the iterating realistic virtual earth WUaS is developing -  

Harbin Hot Springs' Gate house in Google Street View with time slider - 
~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~


Scott MacLeod's
Naked Harbin Ethnography:                  
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin
by Scott MacLeod
sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org
Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropology
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html
Academic Press at World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html




PPPS

(planned at the GCellView GMoleculeView GAtomView and GQubitView levels too ...)

building out from the Harbin Gate House and its 3 dates, 2007, 2012, and 2024 presently, and for aging reversal genetics eventually too - 


PPPSa
and see - 


How best to interoperate the years 2007, 2012 & 2024 AND when we were 7, 12 & 24 in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider @ #HarbinGateHouse ~ WITH #AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords? 



retweeting - 

Acclaimed Scientist Dr. George Church Describes Your Need For AgeMeter®️ Functional Age Test
Info and Shipping for Medical Practices https://bit.ly/3WMqPdz
Info and Download for Consumer iPad App https://bit.ly/3WSrni4
#AgeMeter #Longevity #Health #Wellness #FunctionalAgeTest


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Centers For Age Control Inc Developer of AgeMeter®
@agemeter

Elliott Small, who is the CEO/founder of AgeMeter linkedin 

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How best to interoperate the years 2007, 2012 & 2024 AND when we were 7, 12 & 24 in #GStreetView WITH #GTimeSlider @ #HarbinGateHouse with #eRapidFoulingResistantSensor- ~ WITH #AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords??

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How best to interoperate the years 2007, 2012 & 2024 AND when we were 7, 12 & 24 in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider @ #HarbinGateHouse ~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~
w #eRapidFoulingResistantSensor-https://wyss.harvard.edu/technology/erapid-multiplexed-electrochemical-sensors-for-fast-accurate-portable-diagnostics/ '#GStreetViewInRoom'
https://youtu.be/q9FBhEAXRY4 w our #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords w @geochurch https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bnCEIPQFNnk & for #AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity Medicine?

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PPPPS

And how to interoperate 

GeneralBiologicalIntelligenceAI


in exploring a #YogaAndLongevityGeneticsConvo


exploring an 8/1/26 #YogaAndLongevityGeneticsConvo -https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/07/twin-flower-linnaea-borealis.html?
How with #GeneralBiologicalIntelligenceAI to #GTimeSlide to years 2007, 2012 & 2024 AND when we were 7, 12 & 24 in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider @  https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~ #AgingReversal #AvatarAgentEHR?



PPPPPS

Stanford CS professor Eric Nguyen

How might @WorldUnivAndSch in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program, & building on #MITOCW in 7 langs, interoperate w this #GeneralBiologicalIntelligenceAI (#GStreetView w #GTimeSlider) for #AgingReversalGenetic #LongevityGenetic #GeneDrugTherapies in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForBiology AND with a #RealisticVirtualEarthForYogaAsana? 

Stanford CS professor Eric Nguyen
which George Church above retweeted - 

https://x.com/exnx/status/2066496190502555888



... and for MacLeod Genetic Genealogy re 'identity' - 'blog label too  





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Mark MacLeod <mark_k_macleod@yahoo.com>, Tammie Vawter <mrs_califmacleod@yahoo.com>, florahalmac@gmail.com, davinahalmac@gmail.com, Abigail Sophie Burnyeat <ab2.smo@uhi.ac.uk>, Janie MacLeod <jkbmacleod@icloud.com>, Scott MacLeod <yogamacflower@gmail.com>, Byron Hann <byronhann1@gmail.com>, Edward Smyth <esmythmd@gmail.com>, George Preston <em4gdcp@btinternet.com>, Andrew Lownie <lownie@globalnet.co.uk>, "norvig@stanford.edu" <norvig@stanford.edu>, Scott Gordon MacLeod <president@worlduniversityandschool.org>, Brad & Arlene MacLeod <macleod@usm.maine.edu>, Gerry & Mary Lou Kennedy <geraldkennedy1155@gmail.com>, Sandy MacLeod <sandysculpture@hotmail.com>, macleod2000@gmail.com, Ken MacLeod <MACLEODK@ecu.edu>, Sandra MacLeod Coyle <scoyle@ju.edu>, Gerrard & Minna MacLeod <gerrardmacleod@gmail.com>, Bruce MacLeod <macleod@maine.edu>, Anne MacLeod Shoemaker <annemshoemaker@gmail.com>, Jim MacLeod <jim.macleod@ymail.com>, Claire MacLeod Ohman <ohmanclaire@gmail.com>, Jennifer MacLeod Murray <jenmurrayalice@gmail.com>, minnamacleod@gmail.com, neelammacleod@gmail.com, jacobyount19@gmail.com, smyount3@gmail.com, rainamacleod04@gmail.com, kaylamacleod@comcast.net, Anne Kennedy <annekendoit@hotmail.com>, Susan MacLeod <susanmacleod@gmail.com>, katherine.a.macleod@gmail.com, ayers.katie.m@gmail.com, christine.macleod@ndus.edu, James Kerian <james.kerian@gmail.com>, eleri.kerian@gmail.com, akerian3@gmail.com, mkerian001@gmail.com, joan.kerian@gmail.com, MACLEODG@ecu.edu, coyle.michael@comcast.net, kcoyle2013@my.fit.edu, Morgan MacLeod <morganmacleod@gmail.com>, eshoemaker4@gmail.com, susannahcshoemaker@gmail.com, nmacleod14@gmail.com, akholdfast@gmail.com, Kyle Mark MacLeod <kmm607@mun.ca>, Claire MacLeod <clr_mcld@yahoo.com>, Kenneth MacLeod <kmacleod32@yahoo.ca>, Roberta DiDonato <roberta_didonato@yahoo.com>, Mary Lindmark <mlindmark@lindt.com>, Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>, S Mac <sandysculpture64@gmail.com>, Valerie Mcfarlane Smyth <valerie.mcsmyth@gmail.com>, Erinn Andrews <erinn.andrews@gmail.com>, "Brennan, Karen" <karen_brennan@gse.harvard.edu>, Catherine Muller <catherinemuller57@gmail.com>, "Matchett, David" <dmatchett@gmail.com>, Dean MacCannell <edmaccannell@ucdavis.edu>, Elliott Thurston <esthur7362@gmail.com>, Shawn T Flaherty <pgh.shawn@yahoo.com>, "Hildebrand, Gabrielle" <gabrielle@elasticmedia.com>, George Church <gchurch@genetics.med.harvard.edu>, Henry Robb <robb-h@comcast.net>, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de>, Scott MacLeod <musicalmacflower@gmail.com>, Roland Vogl <rvogl@law.stanford.edu>, Sid Mazumdar <sid.mazumdar@gmail.com>, Patti Cobb <pkcobb23@gmail.com>, Jeff Campbell <piper4peace@gmail.com>, Rees Parker <cavemano727@yahoo.com>, Dave Parker <dparker213@yahoo.com>, Wilson McLeod <w.mcleod@ed.ac.uk>, Stuart Liddell <liddellstuart@hotmail.com>, stuart.mcnish@ohboy.ca, stuart@stuartliddell.com, "jessie.b.ramey@gmail.com" <jessie.b.ramey@gmail.com>, Tom Hess <yogitom@comcast.net>, Rolene Walker <rolenewalker@gmail.com>, info@dunvegancastle.com, Heather Jane MacKay <hmackay@sbcglobal.net>, "Sturgeon N (Nicola), MSP" <Nicola.Sturgeon.msp@parliament.scot>, Linda Henderson <linda2907@sbcglobal.net>, Alex Welsh <alexwelsh555@gmail.com>, gary@garywest.scot, Henry & Catherine Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, John & Kerstin Phillips <john.h.phillips@blueyonder.co.uk>, John & Kerstin Phillips <kerstin.phillips@blueyonder.co.uk>, "Hugh M. Thomas" <h.thomas@miami.edu>, Robert Byrne <rob.f.byrne@gmail.com>, "Scott MacLeod (Helianth)" <helianth@gmail.com>




Sunday, August 9, 2026


Dear Mark, Hugh (MacLeod of MacLeod at Dunvegan), Clan MacLeod Parliament 2026 gathering online (by extension) in this email thread, all, 

Nice to get your message, Mark, on your way back to the United States from the Isle of Skye - 

Scott, 

Thanks for your compliments related to my talk. I'm on my way home now from Skye after a long week!

The discount code requires that you spend at least $100. 

I'm sure your results will be entirely consistent with my results, and those of our cousins Paul and Gerrard, and our great half uncle Jim Alan MacLeod. While you may find this comforting, you might find a better way to spend the money!

All the best, 

Mark



Mark, did you by chance meet Abigail Burnyeat (or know her from previous MacLeod parliaments, - and since her husband spoke at this one - whom I know from the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh in 2003-2004, & greetings, Abigail, ... or, less likely, Flora Halford-MacLeod ... Hi Flora)?


Mark, Hugh, all, I'm also wondering about free-to-students' Scotland World University and School (building on free CC-4 licensed MIT OCW - https://ocw.mit.edu/), with early beginnings here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland in Scots Gaelic too (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_language - planned in Scottish Gaelic) collaborating with Sabhal Mor Ostaig even (to extend and enhance its mission - https://share.google/aimode/PpzX41DSfJIMA90r1 ) e.g. for or with  biology and genetics' science, and potentially many other science, social science and humanities etc courses in Scots' Gaelic.  ... Maybe Mark's MacLeod genetic genealogy talks - https://www.youtube.com/user/markkmacleod - could be translated even, or you could teach this as a novel genetics' genealogy course too ... and how Scotland WUaS and the WUaS Academic Press and WUaS Educational Services' Stores, in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS could be a ginormous business, knowledge-generation / learning, and jobs' creation opportunity for Skye, for Dunvegan itself, for the north of Scotland, for all of Scotland. (And see the PS below too where I explore this with my mother, Janie MacLeod, in Pennsylvania, Pin - Sid Mazumdar in the US federal government in the greater DC area, and Ed Smyth MD in Berkeley, and affiliated with Kaiser Permanente NorCal).

 As Aye, all the best, Hold fast, MacLeod greetings, Yogically, as in 8 limbs of Yoga, Friendly NtF Quaker and Unitarian Universalist church Greetings, 
Scott
will add all this further here - 



PS

Hi Ma, Pin, Ed, Yoga, greetings, how are you on this Saturday? Fahad is back from Pakistan in the 7-11 in Moraga after 5 months, and is married, to a Pakistani woman who is well educated and whose visa with the US state department is on hold or pause; they will likely start a family here.(Could he even know T.. L......., my good friend from Reed College from 1979, who was based in the US Foreign Service in Pakistan)? Fahad was the one who said there had been inquiries by law enforcement - US or CA - about intl org crime - international organized crime - in the area in that 7-11, and then Fahad disappeared ... what happened I wondered at the time ... to Pakistan - for a much needed break Fanad said.  Could he also help develop the physical-digital WUaS Educational Services' Stores in Pakistan, and think Walmart in 19 out of 200 countries, and with WUaS Educational Services' Stores seeking to develop in all 200 countries, and with a WUaS store within a Walmart store model initially, eg in those 19 countries? The Indian cashier at the register, whom I know only a little, had a name tag on newly 'Daman'  ... and said Fahad had been away for 6 months ... Wondering what relationship all the employees there (Neil & Kush too, both also from India, and Hindus culturally, with whom I've kind of connected) have with the US State Department, and even their own developing countries' uniformed services ... Heard back from Mark MacLeod on way back from Skye, will add here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/08/pine-hill-flannelbush.html?m=0 ... Free-to-students' India and Pakistan WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pakistan  ... in all their languages & main languages for free online WUaS degrees are developing ... And https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland in Scots Gaelic collaborating with Sabhal Mor Ostaig e.g. for  biology and genetics' science courses in Gaelic.  ... Maybe Mark's talks could be translated even ...     Thoughts?  Alameda island shower time, Yogically, Scott


Will add Mark's email too here actually - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/08/cuillin-scotland.html?m=0 💕




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Also, see - 


Scott Gordon Kenneth MacLeod's St Kilda paper is his September 2004 Master of Science dissertation from the University of Edinburgh's Department of Celtic & Scottish Studies, titled Physical and Online St. Kilda: A Comparison of 'Senses of Place'. 

http://scottmacleod.com/MacLeod%20Physical%20and%20Online%20St%20Kilda%20A%20%20Comparison%20of%20Senses%20of%20Place%20MSc%20Dissertation%20University%20of%20Edinburgh.pdf

https://share.google/aimode/EBSTGybpX1eifaNfG



http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm



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Sgùrr nan Gillean from Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Scotland
















































https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuillin

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cuillin

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