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2014-09-20T10:07:50-05:00

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The Enlightened Family: Why, It All Makes Sense!

Last updated on: September 20, 2014 at 10:07 am By willduquette

In paragraphs 52 and 53 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis talks about the light that faith shines upon the family; and it’s a light of considerable brightness. In normal human terms, a family arises when a man and woman marry and have children. It’s the natural social unit larger than an individual by which people support each other, and in which children are raised and educated. But the light of faith reveals so much more: The first setting in which... Read more

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2014-09-19T18:01:42-05:00

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Sudo, Sudon’t: Decreasing the Cognitive Load

Last updated on: September 19, 2014 at 6:01 pm By willduquette

Last week I talked about the joys of using the “sudo” command to manage resources installed as “root” on Unix-like systems, and some of the unpleasant links you have to jump through in the name of security. The context of the discussion was ActiveTcl’s “teapot”, which is a repository of Tcl library packages available to all Tcl programmers on the machine. That’s a very good thing; and it’s because the teapot serves all users that it’s installed in a central... Read more

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2014-09-18T13:06:27-05:00

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Remembering Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach

Last updated on: September 18, 2014 at 1:06 pm By willduquette

I don’t really remember Dionne Warwick. Well, except that she sang a surprising number of songs I never ever think about, except that I recognize them immediately when I happen upon—or they come across my eclectic Pandora channel. When I think of the 1960’s, I think rock’n’roll and hippies and psychedelia; but it was also the era of Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick, and their songs were very much in the air when I was small. Here’s one I recently... Read more

Woof Guide to Popular Music

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2014-09-17T20:28:15-05:00

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How to Describe Characters

Last updated on: September 17, 2014 at 8:28 pm By willduquette

Magrat arrived at as near to a run as was possible in the queen outfit, which ought to have had castors. * * * * * Ponder said nothing. When you’re a cork in someone else’s stream of consciousness, all you can do is spin and bob in the eddies. * * * * * Granny Weatherwax seemed to generate a gyroscopic field—if you started out off-balance, she saw to it that you remained there. — Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies. Read more

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2014-09-15T19:43:02-05:00

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The Family that Mines Together, Dines Together

Last updated on: September 15, 2014 at 7:43 pm By willduquette

So my youngest (who is ten) came to me on Sunday afternoon and said, “Daddy? Will you play a Minecraft LAN game with me?” She loves playing Minecraft, and building outrageous pink and gold structures, but sometimes she wants company. Now, Minecraft is designed to be multiplayer, but in our house it’s generally played single-player because we’ve never managed to get it to play reliably on our LAN. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. This particular day it didn’t,... Read more

Woof Guide to Technology

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2014-09-15T18:48:40-05:00

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Review: Post Captain, by Patrick O’Brian

Last updated on: September 15, 2014 at 6:48 pm By willduquette

Post Captain is the second volume of Patrick O’Brian’s well-known Aubrey/Maturin series; and as with my review of Master and Commander I’m writing this with an eye to those who have tried to read O’Brian and have failed. Most fail in the first book, for reasons I noted last week; but some last to the second, and here again the failure is understandable. Do not get me wrong: Post Captain is not a bad book; I’ve read it with enjoyment... Read more

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2014-12-23T16:21:21-05:00

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CT 12: God Not Contained Under Any Genus

Last updated on: December 23, 2014 at 4:21 pm By willduquette

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here. In the previous chapter, Thomas shows that God’s essence is simply existence itself, ipsum esse, a point he’d been working up to for some chapters. In this chapter and several that follow, he’s concerned to prove some corollaries, and to situate God within certain traditional metaphysical categories—or, more accurately, to show that He is a special case, and the standard categories don’t really apply. In... Read more

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Thomas Aquinas

2014-12-23T16:22:07-05:00

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The Terrible Contradiction of Staffing

Last updated on: December 23, 2014 at 4:22 pm By willduquette

In Chapter 4 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis notes that the story of faith isn’t simply the story of a journey; it’s also the story of the building of a city, a place where all can live together in peace: In presenting the story of the patriarchs and the righteous men and women of the Old Testament, the Letter to the Hebrews highlights an essential aspect of their faith. That faith is not only presented as a journey, but also... Read more

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2014-09-12T19:00:19-05:00

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Do You Sudo? Or, Increasing the Cognitive Load

Last updated on: September 12, 2014 at 7:00 pm By willduquette

One of Quill’s functions is that it lets you list the third-party libraries you need, and it goes out and fetches them for you. It fetches them from ActiveState‘s “teapot repository”, using a program called “teacup” which is delivered with ActiveTcl. And therein lies the problem. When you install ActiveTcl, it naturally wants to be installed for all users on the machine. On Windows you just need “admin” privileges, and then there’s no problem. (And if you’re a working programmer,... Read more

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2014-09-11T22:59:48-05:00

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Dance to the Tune of Elsie Marley!

Last updated on: September 11, 2014 at 10:59 pm By willduquette

I have met at least two folk songs that speak in their lyrics of dancing “to the tune of Elsie Marley”: the song “Byker Hill“, which I blogged some while back, and Steeleye Span’s “Harvest of the Moon”: So my son asked at breakfast today whether I’d ever heard the tune of Elsie Marley, and did it have words? Youtube is your friend; and it turns out that it does: Di’ ye ken Elsie Marley, honey The wife that sells... Read more

Woof Guide to Popular Music

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