Monday, December 30, 2019

Travels

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The only true traveller is the business traveller. Like Marco Polo, he travels with a purpose. ... Most travel writing is bogus, unreal a...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

Simplifying too soon

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I got halfway through The Righteous Mind by Haidt before duty called me away. My first reaction is that the philosophical systematizers (e...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Magus

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Yes, I remember the journey well. Messengers from their king got to Nisa before we did, and the Shah was not happy with us. And if it were...
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Sunday, December 22, 2019

Prayers

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"Blessed are all thy Saints, O God and King, who have travelled over the tempestuous sea of this mortal life, and have made the harbor ...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

Ambition?

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It's been suggested that Biden was far from the only one with his snout in the Ukranian trough. That might help explain a curious aspec...
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Missing the point

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Student calls on Oregon School District to end calorie tracking assignment The assignment has Oregon Middle School students track their eat...
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Tip for Introverts

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If you find the ThanksChristmEve crowds a bit draining, you can arrange for privacy by opening a jar of kimchee.
Thursday, December 19, 2019

Gratitude

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In Lord of Light Zelazny has Yama say "None sing hymns to breath. But, oh to be without it!" A spot of pneumonia can cure that...
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Symbolism

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Our Wednesday Bible study is finally done with Ezekiel. We started back in April, I think. The last few chapters beg for symbolic or alleg...

Comedians

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IceCube's budget is tight. So whoever taped bananas to walls and even printers(*) must have been trying to help us bring in a little e...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Words

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Does anyone else remember this radio show?
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Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Extreme noise

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Richard Fernandez suggests, hopefully, that People are filtering political noise out . People keep going to work, inventing new things and ...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

Joseph

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A re-run from 2006: Think about Joseph. We slide over him--the shepherds get more air time than he does in the Christmas plays. Of course h...
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Jumping the gun

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Quanta posted an article claiming that all the laws of physics could be derived from symmetries surrounding particles of different spin angu...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Misrepresenting Afghanistan War

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Somebody who was there has some acrid thoughts about blame and perspective and little gaps in reporting.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Panspermia followup

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A few years back I mused a bit about life from Earth seeding other planets . You'd need speeds of order 27km/sec to get to Mars, becaus...
Monday, December 09, 2019

Peace and the internal combustion engine

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When I was a baby sometimes my father would take me out for a drive around the block in LA to put me to sleep. On long trips across Texas t...
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Sunday, December 08, 2019

Simplicity

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Does the simplicity of God bear on the Incarnation? Start with something easier. In some ways a man is like a wave. The matter that make...

"Mild"

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"Peace on Earth, and mercy mild; God and sinners reconciled." The rhythm and rhyme work, but "mild" doesn't seem qu...
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Saturday, December 07, 2019

Algocracy

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Youngest Son and I decided we needed a new word to describe rule by the dead hand of computer algorithms. Some sci-Fi, and some modern poli...