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October 2014

October 11, 2014

The TCL/TK Conference Approacheth!

On Saturday mornings recently I've been writing about my views on the esthetics of software...

October 10, 2014

Hold Tight, said the Boogie Woogie Washer Woman

I think most people are familiar with the Andrews Sisters singing "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy";...

October 09, 2014

Stephen Maturin on Grumbling

I chose this quote from Patrick O'Brian's Desolation Island because it seems to me to...

October 08, 2014

Think About These Things

It's rare that one of the Sunday mass readings really resonates with me, but today...

October 07, 2014

Review: Desolation Island, by Patrick O’Brian

I've been working my way through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series over the last few weeks;...

October 06, 2014

The Method in Aristotle’s Madness

Today I'm continuing last week's discussion of Aristotle in response to Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry's post "How...

October 05, 2014

Christ Promised a Crown of Thorns, not a Bed of Roses

When I was rather younger, and attending an evangelically-flavored Episcopal parish, I participated in a...

October 04, 2014

Software: When It Don’t Work, It Ain’t Pretty

So last week I broached the topic of beautiful software: beautiful, that is, from the...

October 03, 2014

You’ve Heard Shatner; Introducing Mrs. Miller

So one of my FaceBook friends posted this video of Nancy Sinatra singing her trademark...

October 02, 2014

Patrick O’Brian on Unsuccessful Interior Design

Lord Clonfert had the cabin of his sloop-of-war decorated in the Eastern style; now he...

October 01, 2014

Brandon Watson on being a Competent Critic

Brandon Watson is always worth reading; here he gives an extended meditation on what is...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

Review: The Mauritius Command, by Patrick O’Brian

The Mauritius Command is the fourth of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels, following after H.M.S. Surprise....

September 29, 2014

Giving Aristotle His Due

My fellow Patheos blogger Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry wrote an excellent article last week entitled "How our...

September 28, 2014

How Can You Love the Siblings You Haven’t Seen If You Don’t Love the Siblings You Have?

It's been said that home is where, when you have to go there, they have...

September 27, 2014

Truth, Beauty, and…Software?

The three natural roads to God are truth, goodness, and beauty. That's because even though...

September 26, 2014

Jerry Reed Gives Us The Bird

So the other day I discovered that my wife Jane, the country music fan in...

September 25, 2014

Patrick O’Brian on Having Your Cake

Jack Aubrey sometimes misspeaks, and Stephen Maturin is always ready to help. Here, all hands...

September 24, 2014

Should Luke Trust His Feelings?

I was watching Star Wars with my kids during our vacation last summer, and repeatedly...

September 23, 2014

Review: H.M.S. Surprise, by Patrick O’Brian

Last week and the week before I reviewed the first two books in Patrick O'Brian's...

September 22, 2014

CT 13: God Not A Genus

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

September 21, 2014

The Enlightened Family: Why, It All Makes Sense!

In paragraphs 52 and 53 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis talks about the light that...

September 20, 2014

Sudo, Sudon’t: Decreasing the Cognitive Load

Last week I talked about the joys of using the "sudo" command to manage resources...

September 19, 2014

Remembering Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach

I don't really remember Dionne Warwick. Well, except that she sang a surprising number of...

September 18, 2014

How to Describe Characters

Magrat arrived at as near to a run as was possible in the queen outfit,...

September 17, 2014

The Family that Mines Together, Dines Together

So my youngest (who is ten) came to me on Sunday afternoon and said, "Daddy?...

September 16, 2014

Review: Post Captain, by Patrick O’Brian

Post Captain is the second volume of Patrick O'Brian's well-known Aubrey/Maturin series; and as with...

September 15, 2014

CT 12: God Not Contained Under Any Genus

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

September 14, 2014

The Terrible Contradiction of Staffing

In Chapter 4 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis notes that the story of faith isn't...

September 13, 2014

Do You Sudo? Or, Increasing the Cognitive Load

One of Quill's functions is that it lets you list the third-party libraries you need,...

September 12, 2014

Dance to the Tune of Elsie Marley!

I have met at least two folk songs that speak in their lyrics of dancing...

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