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A PIECE OF THE PUZZLE - homily for the 22nd Sunday (Still looking for a better way to embed podcasts than Spotify. Open to suggestions.) A PIECE OF THE PUZZLE - Homily for the 22nd Sunday https://breez.link/p?feedURL=https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fs%2F72b0fc8%2Fpodcast%2Frss&episodeID=4cdfec51-3cb8-41bc-bd5e-acbb9df0bf41 #ivf #catholic #sundaysermon

I enjoyed listening to Michael Palin’s Erebus, about the polar explorations conducted by the ship of that name, and its companion ship HMS Terror. They were bomb ships created at the end of the Napoleonic era, present at the shelling of Baltimore (?) during the war of 1812. Whatever battle the Star-Spangled Banner commemorates. They were retired from naval service not long after being launched, almost being obsolete as soon as they were built, but their reinforced hulls were ideal for plowing through sea ice. Incredibly, they did so under sail alone. HMS Erebus was discovered in the Arctic in 2016 or so and HMS Terror not long after. Their voyages all sound harrowing but particularly the last, of course. Conrad mentions them in Heart of Darkness. There are all sorts of lively characters and of course the usual preening superiority towards past attitudes and practices. I think one of the favorable qualities of the historical books I most enjoy is that they do not allow a contemporary perspective to intervene and attempt to demonstrate “our” superiority to the people of the past. The author's voice is totally subsumed into the characters’. I find the interjection of authorial voice so irritating as to cause me to stop reading the second I detect it. I tried listening to Erik Larsen’s new book on the start of the civil war but made the mistake of starting with the Introduction and had to return it. A new rule I’m considering putting into place is to never, ever, ever read introductions, and perhaps even avoid books that contain them entirely.

I’m scratching my head here: My Nostr profile loads just fine on nostr:npub1n0stur7q092gyverzc2wfc00e8egkrdnnqq3alhv7p072u89m5es5mk6h0 and nostr:npub142gywvjkq0dv6nupggyn2euhx4nduwc7yz5f24ah9rpmunr2s39se3xrj0 but when I open Nostr on desktop, my profile won’t load. Doesn’t matter what client… nostr:npub13myx4j0pp9uenpjjq68wdvqzywuwxfj64welu28mdvaku222mjtqzqv3qk nostr:npub1wyuh3scfgzqmxn709a2fzuemps389rxnk7nfgege6s847zze3tuqfl87ez nostr:npub1sn0rtcjcf543gj4wsg7fa59s700d5ztys5ctj0g69g2x6802npjqhjjtws #asknostr

The sepulcher of the great Carmelite Teresa of Avila secured in a 10-of-10 multisig vault #catholic #bitcoin #multisig https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/08/28/stj2024sepulcro/

All, a quick request for some feedback: Recently I acquired some classroom desktop computers that are no longer needed, and would never be capable of running Windows 11. They're HP computers, mostly, with 125GB SSDs. They seem ideal for self hosting a personal server, and I have been successful getting #StartOS working on one of them after a RAM upgrade to 16GB, to future-proof it for the bitcoin stack. Obviously a larger SSD would be desirable but that's an easy upgrade if it's wanted. What do you think someone would be willing to pay for such a device?

Let er rip

Beautiful days fishing in Canada. Such peace, such abundance.

https://x.com/stclairashley/status/1804203284883759279 Sowell has been shouting this exactly train of thought for decades, specifically in his book black Rednecks, White Liberals. She basically provided a tl;dr of this: https://youtu.be/aComD_312Jk?si=Z48IkbY2CFbs3CWa

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Sunday Supper

I live in a pretty run-down, frequently violent, and often cruel and hostile place, but every once in a while...

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It's quite jarring to me NOT to be able to zap the creator of this obscure script meant to solve an even more obscure problem for a tiny portion of the English speaking members of the human race.

Installing #ubuntu #linux 🤞

What is the correct response to being at an all time low motivation #asknostr

😍 when autocorrect picks "depravity" when I type "Spanish"