I have admired some of my hosts posts about her struggles with faith, mine are ancient, and not resolved in ways that I think would aid her. I moved far away from church and organized religion in my mid teens, after being an obnoxious brat of a choir boy earlier. [...]
While I am of eccentric opinions on global climate changes, considering the warming from LGM (last glacial maximum) up to now to be a mostly positive set of circumstances, I had this visual thought today, after yesterdays red sun and moon, we need a technology of sky dye’s. Litmus paper for the atmosphere.
It needs to [...]
Today, I spent an hour in a safety and checkout class for some welding equipment, which mentally took me back about 30 years to when I was the worst applied student in a semester class of welding. Fortunately for me in the college class, a fair bit of the grade was on [...]
The afternoon sun, and for awhile the late night moon have been ember red, tinted I assume by smoke from fires in the hills west and south of here but all of that is out of site and over the horizon. Makes one consider omens … I look now and the moon [...]
Thank you for the opportunity to taste test top level blogging and for a good setup topic, first the angst of being a renaissance wannabe in the age of math based engineering and data explosion.
The world and counseling needs some words for the mental states related to failures to Grok, Grok being a made up [...]
I’ve always been fascinated by the seven deadly sins — so much more interesting than the seven virtues. I once tried to match each sin to one of Snow White’s Seven Dwarfs (close, but no cigar). A character in Robertson Davies’ The Cunning Man made a party game of rating one’s friends on [...]
Family duties call me away for a couple of weeks, but a dear friend has kindly agreed to guest-blog in my absence. The nearest thing I know to a true Renaissance man, excentricbahhumbug is an artist in many media, electronic musician, software QA guru, poet, gardener, and tirelessly curious observer. When we worked together at [...]
Editing his older sister’s Mii (personal avatar for the Wii game system) to include warts, wrinkles, and facial hair.
Live webcam of a mama lion and four cubs, all the way from Norway. Squeeeee!
As always, Dennis Perrin offers a sardonic take on what is, admittedly, becoming a premature celebration of President Obama, and goes on to offer a very cold bath on the potential role of liberal political bloggers in the upcoming New Era:
The Web is good for many things, but creating and sustaining serious social and political [...]
