2021-11-13 04:00
1. Joy hath no joy like a two-year-old with a bubble machine and a new puppy. 2. Writing – good writing – is often a long and painful process. 3. The less there is on my calendar… Read More
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2021-11-13 02:30
My sweet little goose My hippie little doosie Mine now and always
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2021-11-12 04:00
Don’t miss this blurb about David Ogilvy writing copy. Kinda funny, kind of just a glimpse behind the curtain. The guy was a legend. I have never written an advertisement in the office… Read More
2021-11-12 02:30
A robin in the Window speaks an instinct that Makes me lean to peek
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2021-11-11 04:36
Heck, I don’t know. I mean, if we are not here for anything eternal (i.e., we serve no greater purpose). Why shouldn’t powerful people use us all as a means to an end? Why should… Read More
2021-11-10 14:00
Running from the sun I lie and count these made sheep Methodical sleep
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2021-11-10 03:30
I think this is saying that if you throw meaning and ethics out the window, everything becomes a practical statement. But even a practical statement – in a world of only physics &ndash&hell…Read More
2021-11-10 02:30
I caught the rona So here I sit, quarantined Tired, foggy, cleaned
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2021-11-09 04:00
When education has worked well – it has not been forced. Of course, this is true of anything else too. People, of course, want freedom in their personal lives, and everywhere else&hell&hell…Read More
2021-11-09 02:00
We were best friends for Nearly two years, I am lost Without you here
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2021-11-06 03:00
Random Thoughts – 314 Where I Sit 17 5000 Posts Nature And Destiny Of Man Managed From Cradle To The Grave
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2021-11-06 01:30
1. I’m teaching my child to ride a bike. In a way, it’s one of the sweetest, most tender, things. 2. Can people not simply leave other people alone? I guess not. 3. I’m fee… Read More
2021-11-05 01:30
Where I Sit 17: Just trading cotton
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2021-11-04 01:00
Welp, this marks 5000 posts. Whoop! Whoop! (Here was 4000.) I know, I know: Who cares, right? I care! Even if this is still a small little blog that only a few of my friends read (it’s… Read More
2021-11-03 02:30
It should seem obvious that science cannot speak about anything in metaphysics. Right? One can perform the scientific method on an atom under conditions X and Y, etc. But that line of invest… Read More
2021-11-02 03:00
Why must governments try to manage us so? And from “cradle to the grave?” I mean, that’s awfully specific – and without regard to individuality and preferences. Even… Read More
2021-10-30 03:30
Random Thoughts – 313 Yoast SEO Readability A Single Set Of Ideas In Multiple Genres The Playful Approach to Writing Absorbed, Weary, And Interested
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2021-10-30 01:30
1. There are about half a dozen blogging experiments I want to try. This is just not the season for having that extra bandwidth… Ugh. 2. I’d love to be remembered pouring it all… Read More
2021-10-29 01:30
Ok, I am all for the Yoast SEO plugin. The SEO tab is fantstic. It’s simple and easy to use – even if you are not worried too much about SEO. But I think we should take the &ldqu&hell…Read More
2021-10-28 01:30
I think, if I think about it, most writers have a single set of ideas that they hover around. They poke and prod and push these ideas around their entire lives. The job of writing then becom… Read More
2021-10-27 01:30
Maybe if you are stuck writing – try drawing it out first. I like the playful approach to writing he takes here. Feel like I need to at least try this… (Wish I was better about… Read More
2021-10-26 01:30
I can think of few things better, that one friend could say about another. And I just love that line: “absorbed, weary and interested, pouring all of himself into this effort.” M… Read More
2021-10-23 01:30
1. Sometimes you got nothing. And that sucks when you just want to finish a blog post and go to bed. 2. What if most evil things rarely look evil, especially at the beginning? 3. I saw a hig… Read More
2021-10-22 01:30
I read this poem the other day and simply could not put it out of my mind. I think it speaks to something nearly lost. What happened to virtue and sacrifice and stoic courage for your family… Read More
2021-10-21 03:30
Well – is shampoo a scam? I don’t know. But I think I am going to have to eventually experiment and see. You?
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2021-10-20 01:30
If you don’t know the story of Eric Liddell, check it out ASAP. I think it is a fantastic case of knowing exactly who you are and exactly what you want out of this short life. Of cours… Read More
2021-10-19 01:30
The problem is that evil deeds rarely start out looking exactly like that. We can all agree on the atrocities and obvious things like genocide and the abuse of children. But what happens whe… Read More
2021-10-16 01:30
1. WIFI is down at our house and it’s like we don’t know how to live now. 2. No, this bible is not “convenient” at all. 3. I love my job. That’s it. That’… Read More
2021-10-15 01:30
So here’s Rainbow, By: Kacey Musgraves. My wife has been listening to this song – and now I can’t seem to get it out of my head. It has a certain rainy-day melancholy to it… Read More
2021-10-14 01:30
I find it fitting that Jacobs explains here that Frank Kermode wrote in the dedication of The Genesis of Secrecy: “To Those Outside.” But what is the answer here? Why the differe… Read More
2021-10-13 01:30
This line, the imposition of belief, reminds me of a talk I heard the other day about how the Christian gospel is both attractive and repulsive at the same time. It offers redemption, hope… Read More
2021-10-12 01:30
Cotton is over $1 per pound right now and so producers have got to hedge – but keying dollar cotton is another issue… See, for a cotton trader, you key cotton prices all day. Th… Read More
2021-10-09 03:30
Random Thoughts – 310 Without Grace Costco Membership Is This Important To Costco Great Literature If Everything Became Absurd
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2021-10-09 01:30
1. My cough sounds like a sneeze. My sneeze sounds like a typhoon. 2. Will great literature ever return? 3. I think everyone would do better if they quit caring so much about their careers… Read More
2021-10-08 01:30
I am not sure what we are capable of much in this life without grace. You can agree on the importance of the specifics. We just start falling all over each other when we start arguing about… Read More
2021-10-07 01:30
Costco membership is not part of Costco’s business. Membership is Costco’s business. Pretty crazy, actually. (Good grief I love Costco.) Have a watch:
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2021-10-06 01:30
Sure, I would agree that great literature has been shunned – a result of schools and parents not teaching literature, writing, and ethics (humanities) in the first place. (This idea is… Read More
2021-10-05 01:30
Of course, everything became absurd – has become absurd – just look around you. We sit on this ball of rock, as it hurls through the abyss of space at hundreds of thousands of mi… Read More
2021-10-02 03:00
Random Thoughts – 309 Indirect Communication, Like This From The Distant Past The Last Stars Everything Can Be Done
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2021-10-02 01:30
1. 50 year old men arguing about what a particular college football coach “should” be doing makes me laugh. Get a hobby dude. Or, at least a better one. 2. This is still blowing… Read More
2021-10-01 01:30
Indirect communication, I think, can be such a powerful tool. An example? Take the word you out of it. For instance, I might be talking about parenting to someone. I will never point out wha… Read More
2021-09-30 01:30
Uh, yeah there is much to be learned from the distant past… If anything you can take comfort in being part of this giant wellspring of humanity that has drifted through the ages. I me… Read More
2021-09-29 01:30
I am still pondering the time and space of this: The last stars will die out 120 trillion years from now, followed by 10106 years of just black holes. Condensed, that’s like the univer… Read More
2021-09-28 01:30
Everything can be done to the glory of God, right? (If that is what you really believe….) Not flippantly – like none of this matters – but with the weight of eternity stan… Read More
2021-09-25 03:30
1. If your idea of penny pinching is “investing” in a new car (and keeping it longer) – but then still getting a new car every four years – you are not penny pinching… Read More
2021-09-24 22:30
In all of their hay The poets could not relay The grace of this day
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2021-09-24 01:30
I mean, if you want a forever tattoo, the law of supply and demand is nearly as eternal as you can get here on this earth. Hahhahahahahhaha. No, really though… H/T:
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2021-09-23 01:30
This is C.S. Lewis’s answer to the question: What use is there for academic studies in a time of war? That “permanent human situation” here, I think, being pain, suffering… Read More
2021-09-22 01:30
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against RealityBy: Peter PomerantsevPublicAffairs (August 6, 2019)256 pages This Is Not Propaganda is a book about exactly that: Propaganda. See… Read More
2021-09-21 01:30
First things, as described here by Lewis, reminds me of necessary but not sufficient. In short, two things are needed to achieve a desired outcome. But in this case, it matters what order yo… Read More
2021-09-18 03:00
Random Thoughts – 307 Developer Music The Problem With Atheist Humanism Theology of Humanists Anonymous Group
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2021-09-18 01:30
1. If you think you are poor – you don’t get to retire. 2. Evil compared to what exactly? By what measure? According to who? 3. I think 50% of successful trading is giving in and… Read More
2021-09-17 03:30
On that theme of IT/developers, I am enjoying listening to the website musicforprogramming.net. This week it has been just the right type of music to tune out and work to. I’m no dev&h&hell…Read More
2021-09-16 03:30
I feel like this idea of atheist humanism (opposed to Christian Humanism) bears out what I have already said elsewhere. Mainly, that if we are all an accident, without purpose or meaning, it… Read More
2021-09-15 03:30
Here’s a bit more on Christian Humanism, the point being simple: That: Teaching outside of the bible is not necessarily “unbiblical” teaching. (I’ll take a good quote… Read More
2021-09-14 00:30
Remember back in the day when we all dressed up as the Anonymous Group, as the theme for our company IT conference?! Well, I do. It’s one thing to just put the mask on for fun or what… Read More
2021-09-11 04:00
Random Thoughts – 306 Who Were The Umanistas? This Probability Riddle Is Just Wrong What Is Christian Humanism? How Russia Got Big
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2021-09-11 03:30
1. Got locked out of my office building today. Everything with key fob entry automatically locks down at 1:00 PM. Who knew? Not me, locked in the stairwell. Not me. 2. No really, there is no… Read More
2021-09-10 03:30
Umanistas is the term from which we get the word “humanist.” Derived from 15th-century Italian universities – it was slang for one that advocated for teaching the humanitie… Read More
2021-09-09 03:00
Seriously, this probability riddle made me chuckle. Of course, y’all know I love these types of little puzzles and stats questions. Here too. So here goes: If you pick an answer at ran… Read More
2021-09-08 03:30
Humanism, even Christian Humanism, is a curse word among certain circles. And I admit I fell into this category for a long time… I brushed the term aside as a fancy word for saying: … Read More
2021-09-07 03:30
If you didn’t know, Russia is big. Like really big. This is how it happened. 🤔 Kinda interesting…
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2021-09-04 03:30
Random Thoughts – 305 Anne Lamott On The Tim Ferriss Show Literary Education As A Foundation What Is Quid Sit Homo? Norton Gin
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2021-09-04 01:00
1. I have found joy (lasting joy) in fewer things as the years have gone by. 2. The foundation of learning is reading – pure and simple. 3. I am continuously amazed at how ignorant peo… Read More
2021-09-04 00:30
OMGoodness – I love Anne Lamott. And this interview with Tim Ferriss was absolutely fantastic. Lamott is just so relatable for so many people (speaking what we are subconsciously think… Read More
2021-09-03 00:30
We overlook literary education today almost entirely. And why? Probably the same way that teaching writing is done poorly: They are both hard to teach. In fact, if I were designing a classro… Read More
2021-09-01 00:30
Quid sit homo is Latin for “what is man?” No really – I’m now asking – what is man? An animal? An accident? Evolved? Created? Responsible for anything? Deservin… Read More
2021-08-31 00:30
So I got to tour Norton Gin last week. It’s a small old cotton gin that has been closed down for a year or so now (located in Norton, TX – between Ballinger, Bronte, and Winters)… Read More
2021-08-28 03:30
Random Thoughts – 304 Failure Of The Schools How Might Becomes Right Peaches, The Presidents Of The United States of America Churches Allowed It
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2021-08-28 00:30
1. Instead of serving everyone a drink and snack on my last flight, they asked people who wanted one to press their attendant button. I heard that ding go off about 28 times. I think it woul… Read More
2021-08-26 12:30
Of course, the lack of moral education is a failure of the schools…. But who controls the schools? And why did we give the government agency over the schools anyway? Honestly, it's th… Read More
2021-08-26 00:30
This passage reminded me of the quote by Russian historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s. When asked to speak about his research on the bloodshed and heartache of the Russian Revolution he… Read More
2021-08-25 00:30
I love that songs like Peaches exist. I mean, oh my goodness, what is even going on here? Makes me think of my hometown, and high school – cruizing around town late at night with my wh… Read More
2021-08-24 00:30
Because the churches allowed it?! Choke. Ugh. I guess if you are willing to just go slower, you can do anything… They are doing this with countries here. And they are doing this with… Read More
2021-08-21 00:30
1. Not sure if it’s an age thing or not, but the importance of a comfortable pair of shoes is highly underrated. (Yeah, prob an age thing.) 2. Well, which airports have you been to? 3… Read More
2021-08-20 00:30
Nothing too fancy, just a site with all the airport codes. I don’t know, it’s kinda rad if you ask me! (Wish I had thought of it.) Just let your mind wander and search for bit if… Read More
2021-08-19 00:30
Well looky there, the Fabian Society is still around! Although I’m not linking to something shortsighted enough to side with socialism… Outside the poor economics of it, sociali… Read More
2021-08-18 00:30
Uh, I hate to tell you, but this bit about cleaning your kitchen is 100% true. Being an adult is awesome and all – but that kitchen ain’t going nowhere…. A thing I never r… Read More
2021-08-17 03:30
Good-grief, this is exactly what we are creating and leaving for our children, isn’t it? “…an impoverished ideal of democracy that cannot resist the greater coherence and… Read More
2021-08-15 00:30
1. The hum of a Saturday can be bliss. You wake. Coffee. Donuts. Cartoons. A load of laundry. The hum of the dryer. Maybe the park, or swimming. Afternoon movies and the smell of fried chick… Read More
2021-08-13 03:30
Yeah, without ethics, how is democracy superior to totalitarianism? Positivism/pragmatism will only give you the is – never the should. It’s true tho… And it is worth noti… Read More
2021-08-13 00:30
You should stop teaching your kids to share, because – well – nobody shares. We don’t. I mean, think about it. We admonish our kids to share toys with their siblings. We sh… Read More
2021-08-12 03:30
I get it, experimental verification is a powerful tool. (To some degree, I’m an empiricist.) The point is that I agree. But this assumes everything is observable, assumes that your obs… Read More
2021-08-12 00:30
Tonight in the light A fleck of fuzz ran on the Bed, thought I was dead
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2021-08-11 01:30
I love this idea of selfish writing. Pure and simple, it’s writing what you want to write – instead of fretting over what the audience thinks. If I am honest, this resonates with… Read More
2021-08-11 00:30
Bright light in this space Where the sky bends away at The edges of grace
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2021-08-10 01:30
I think the best “what is truth quote” comes from the Bible. If it were not such a pivotal scene it would make us laugh. In the light of day, the irony of it all makes it look tr… Read More
2021-08-10 00:30
Like watching fire Light, I stared out the window My entire flight
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2021-08-07 00:30
1. Here’s the Texas translation of Bakersfield, CA: Bakersfield is like Lubbock and Odessa gave birth to a city the size of Corpus Christi. Got it? 2. You can’t science your way… Read More
2021-08-06 00:30
Here a two spirit retrospective examples. As you can see – well – things were not going great. In retrospect it makes me laugh. But it sure didn’t at the time! Sadly, this… Read More
2021-08-05 00:30
Where I Sit 16: Phoenix, AZ
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2021-08-04 00:30
Today was my first day at Calcot, Ltd. I just need a post here to mark the occasion. (Celebrate more milestones and all.) Can’t believe it’s been three weeks since my last day at… Read More
2021-08-04 00:30
Positivists Theory is a philosophy that says that all knowable knowledge comes from science/observation. So yeah, positivists theory has a few problems. I mean, who can possibly think that?… Read More
2021-07-31 00:30
1. Guys. We look frail in a V-neck T-shirts. There is no way around it. 2. Sleep and more sleep. 3. Bowfinger was the very movie I needed tonight. Turned my brain off for an hour, and it was… Read More
2021-07-30 00:30
“Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence.” So good. We would all do good to do better with this. Maybe I am just craving margin at this s… Read More
2021-07-29 00:30
I pulled two great insights from this video on how to get better sleep quality. The talk is actually pretty terrifying. Especially considering how erratic sleep can be as a parent (how varie… Read More
2021-07-28 00:30
More sleep really is often the best medicine. Naturally, this is easier during certain life stages. And harder during others. Like everything else, good sleep is, I think, a matter of making… Read More
2021-07-27 00:30
Enjoyed this post on a few key business tips from Lebanon. In short: Although few in number, Lebanese immigrants are overrepresented among the world’s wealthiest. Population-wise, it w… Read More
2021-07-24 00:30
1. I don’t get people that rent cabins and cook on vacation. I barely want to cook at home. 2. No really – we all say one thing in public and do another thing in private, even if… Read More
2021-07-23 00:30
Where I Sit 15: South Padre Island, Hilton Garden Inn
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