Monthly Archives: December 2011

If you respect alcohol as a God-given foodstuff and chemical, and if you respect your own body’s God-given limits and don’t try to push yourself (or others) into crazy drinking, you’ll probably stay out of trouble. This is pretty much … Continue reading →

We hear a lot of bad stuff coming out of Canada. Here’s some good stuff for the New Year, about the making and selling of possibly the world’s cheapest tablet, for India and other countries.

If you have QR code (you know, the funky barcodes in a square) scanning apps on your phone, make sure you’ve got one that lets you look at the link and confirm, before you go there. Anyone can make and … Continue reading →

I don’t know much about her career, but she hailed from Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Apparently she was a fairly famous singer for many years and did a long stint in Vegas as well. According to her website, she was a … Continue reading →

Every so often, I ask myself whether anything I’ve done has really mattered, or whether the things I have done as an Internet citizen have done more toward harm than good. But every so often, because I’m pretty weak and … Continue reading →

Okay, so I’m listening to a presentation (on a proprietary jobsearch site that my former employer set us up with, so I can’t link it). The speaker was talking all Northern Cities, and he was probably from somewhere around New … Continue reading →

On another site, I sorta… um… spent way too much time in the comment box reporting my search for… what part Callista Gingrich sings in the choir at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Not because it’s a political … Continue reading →

It was a pretty pleasant Christmas, albeit without snow. Midnight Mass (or 11 PM Mass) went well, and my voice worked out pretty well. My presents were also fairly well appreciated. Made marzipan from almond flour and sugar, as a … Continue reading →

… But I think they’re prejudiced against bachelor degrees in the social sciences. And I’d have to move to Houston. Seriously, though, I’m sure there are plenty of math, science, and engineering folks who are qualified for this job, especially … Continue reading →

One of the most endearing things about animals and plants is that, every so often, the Garden of Eden doesn’t seem so far away. Sometimes we can talk to the animals and understand them, or grow plants in such a … Continue reading →

Turkey keeps on lying and lying about the Armenian genocide. You know, the bit where hundreds of thousands, perhaps a million, Armenian-Turkish people were driven from their homes, their stuff stolen, and then either killed outright or killed in a … Continue reading →

A big post of Vaclav Havel remembrances and video links. He was a great man. And how often does a poet and playwright excel in politics as well?

One of the entertaining and disturbing things about learning languages is finding out how badly people have misrepresented the world to you. Translations of Latin mottos are particularly prone to mishandling, in these sad days when few people learn Latin. … Continue reading →

We sing Elizabeth Poston’s arrangement of “Jesus Christ the Apple Tree” in my choir. Her melody is a drastically slowed, minored, extremely boring version of Jeremiah Ingalls’ in-period hymn tune, BICENTENNIAL. It’s a very beautiful piece, mind you, but it … Continue reading →