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June 2014

June 21, 2014

Six Pilgrims (Plus One) Along the Camino de Santiago

An old friend of mine from the Newman Center community at Stanford has begun a...

June 21, 2014

Tools for Learning Clojure, Part IV: GitHub

In Part I, I talked about Clojure and the need for a convenient "REPL": a...

June 20, 2014

Mississippi Squirrel Revival!

Ray Stevens' classic novelty song "The Mississippi Squirrel Revival" randomly appeared in my music stream...

June 19, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Angelfood Cake

The Mouser made a very small parry in carte so that the thrust of the...

June 18, 2014

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats—Or Does It?

Recently the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has been calling for an increase in the...

June 17, 2014

Review: 1491, by Charles C. Mann

Subtitled "New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus", Charles C. Mann's 1491 is a delightful...

June 16, 2014

CT 4.2: Another Principle of Change

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

June 15, 2014

Lumen Fidei: The Pursuit of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful

Continuing with Paragraph 35 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis talks about those who seek God...

June 14, 2014

Tools for Learning Clojure, Part III: Nightcode

In Part I, I talked about Clojure and the need for a convenient "REPL": a...

June 13, 2014

Wondrous Love, by Blue Highway

So Elizabeth Scalia sent me a YouTube video the other day, a performance of the...

June 12, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: A Serious Mummy Problem

Here's something you didn't know about the Incas: Because the royal mummies were not considered...

June 11, 2014

Watchman For Daybreak Watch

After a couple three weeks in which I didn't work on Watchman for Daybreak at...

June 10, 2014

Review: Scholastic Metaphysics, by Ed Feser

Prof. Ed Feser's latest book is Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction. I think enough of...

June 09, 2014

CT 4.1: The Immobility of God

We're blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas' Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the...

June 08, 2014

The Mystery of Trust

And yet God continues to trust us. He trusts us with the Body and Blood...

June 08, 2014

Lumen Fidei: Mirroring God

In paragraph 35 of Lumen Fidei I find this interesting comment. Pope Francis is saying...

June 07, 2014

Tools for Learning Clojure, Part II: Leiningen

In part I, I talked about Clojure and the need for a convenient "REPL": a...

June 06, 2014

Mark Knopfler, Southbound Again

I was a sophomore in high school when Dire Straits made it big with "Sultans...

June 05, 2014

Elizabeth House: How Charity is Done

In the last couple of days I've seen lots of stories about a "Home" for...

June 04, 2014

Tools for Learning Clojure

As I wrote on Saturday, I'm learning to program in Clojure; and being a tool...

June 03, 2014

Review: Cyador’s Heirs, by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

Cyador's Heirs is the latest outing in L.E. Modesitt Jr.'s long-running cash cow, the Recluce...

June 02, 2014

It’s Worse Than That, It’s Physics, Jim!

I'm taking a short break from St. Thomas Aquinas to talk about the Aristotelian underpinnings...

June 01, 2014

Lumen Fidei: Remounting My Hobby Horse

One of my hobby horses is the relationship between faith and reason in general, and...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

Coming to a Clojure

I'm a software engineer at my day job, and I'm a long-time programming language junkie....

May 30, 2014

Celebrating the Full Orchestral Grunt

Or, another chapter in the long-running series, "Odd Things from Pandora". So across Pandora one...

May 29, 2014

Word I Wish I’d Written: Sweaters

It really was an awful garment, that pullover. It had a queasy zigzag pattern, in...

May 28, 2014

The Long and the Short of Infinite Regressions

One of my favorite philosophy bloggers is James Chastek at Just Thomism. I find his...

May 27, 2014

Review: Killing Rommel, by Steven Pressfield

Most of Steven Pressfield's war novels take place in the distant past; Killing Rommel takes place more...

May 26, 2014

CT 3.4: The End of the Causal Chain

In which we see what's at the end of the causal chain. Continuing my look...

May 25, 2014

Lumen Fidei: When Practice and Theory Don’t Match

There's an old joke that's not really a joke: Q: What's the difference between theory...

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