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August 2014

August 16, 2014

Trimming the Quill: Some Development Notes

I've been continuing to put a lot of time into Quill, a build system for...

August 15, 2014

Byker Hill: Collier Lads For Ever More (Now with Trombones!)

"Byker Hill" is an English folk song about coal miners in Newcastle; and not coincidentally,...

August 14, 2014

On Tyranny

Being an absolute ruler today was not as simple as people thought. At least, it...

August 13, 2014

Jack McDevitt: Antiques in Space!!!

Recently I re-read Jack McDevitt's "Alex Benedict" series, which begins with A Talent For War...

August 12, 2014

Praying for the Islamic State

One of my friends at Patheos, Rebecca Hamilton, recently wrote a post about the monstrous...

August 11, 2014

CT 9: Simplicity of God

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

August 10, 2014

What’s a Meme? Let me count the ways….

In last Tuesday's post I referred to an image with superimposed text as a "meme",...

August 09, 2014

Adventures in Clojure: The Fact Base

When you're writing a game based around a game world of some kind, be it...

August 08, 2014

St. Dominic

Pray for us.

August 08, 2014

The Aquabats: Magic Chicken and Midget Pirates, with Snakes

Apropos of absolutely nothing, here's a track from one of the stranger albums in my...

August 07, 2014

Dr. Who does the Time Warp

OK, this is simply brilliant...and rather better done than most Youtube videos I've seen.

August 07, 2014

The Mystery of Presence

This month's post at CatholicMom.com is about the Fifth Joyful Mystery: the finding of Jesus...

August 07, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: The Check’s in the Mail

If, somewhere, any possible world can exist, then somewhere there is any letter that could...

August 06, 2014

Mistake No Identities!

Do not confuse your parish priest with the Almighty. Do not pass go. Do not...

August 06, 2014

In Mosul, Crown Him with Many Thorns

There's a fine old hymn I learned in college: Crown him with many crowns, the...

August 05, 2014

Meme Watch: Economic Bullsh*t

I hate memes like the above with a deep and fiery passion. Not because it...

August 04, 2014

CT 8: Absence of Succession in God

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

August 03, 2014

Lumen Fidei: The Ten Commandments, an Invitation to Love

The first thing that comes to most people's minds when you say, "The Ten Commandments,"...

August 02, 2014

Quill: A Build System for TCL/TK

I'm taking a break from posting about Clojure this week, because a few weeks ago...

August 01, 2014

Stan Rogers: Watching the Apples Grow

I've finally got my Internet access back (at close-of-business on Thursday) and so I'm scrambling...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: On Using Magic

Oh, you could do it all by magic, you certainly could. You could wave a...

July 30, 2014

Technical Difficulties

The internet has been broken at our house since yesterday morning. It isn't clear whether...

July 29, 2014

Review: Going Postal

So last night I finished reading Terry Pratchett's Going Postal to my wife and kids....

July 28, 2014

CT 7: The Everlasting Existence of God

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

July 27, 2014

Lumen Fidei: Claiming the Community

In paragraph 45 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis makes a point about the Profession of...

July 26, 2014

Adventures in Clojure: Nearly Constant Data

As I noted last week, the Clojure way is to keep immutable (unchanging) data separate...

July 25, 2014

My, My, This Here Anakin Guy…

We were on vacation last week, and during the week the kids managed to watch...

July 24, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: On Murder

“You mean you knew there was going to be a murder before it even happened?”...

July 23, 2014

Active Contemplation—Wait, What?

I've sometimes thought that Dominican contemplation is very active contemplation, because Dominicans are active contemplatives....

July 22, 2014

Review: Night and Demons, by David Drake

Night and Demons is a collection of some of David Drake's short stories. Each story...

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