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August 2014

August 16, 2014
I've been continuing to put a lot of time into Quill, a build system for...
August 15, 2014
"Byker Hill" is an English folk song about coal miners in Newcastle; and not coincidentally,...
August 14, 2014
Being an absolute ruler today was not as simple as people thought. At least, it...
August 13, 2014
Recently I re-read Jack McDevitt's "Alex Benedict" series, which begins with A Talent For War...
August 12, 2014
One of my friends at Patheos, Rebecca Hamilton, recently wrote a post about the monstrous...
August 11, 2014
We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....
August 10, 2014
In last Tuesday's post I referred to an image with superimposed text as a "meme",...
August 09, 2014
When you're writing a game based around a game world of some kind, be it...
August 08, 2014
Pray for us.
August 08, 2014
Apropos of absolutely nothing, here's a track from one of the stranger albums in my...
August 07, 2014
OK, this is simply brilliant...and rather better done than most Youtube videos I've seen.
August 07, 2014
This month's post at CatholicMom.com is about the Fifth Joyful Mystery: the finding of Jesus...
August 07, 2014
If, somewhere, any possible world can exist, then somewhere there is any letter that could...
August 06, 2014
Do not confuse your parish priest with the Almighty. Do not pass go. Do not...
August 06, 2014
There's a fine old hymn I learned in college: Crown him with many crowns, the...
August 05, 2014
I hate memes like the above with a deep and fiery passion. Not because it...
August 04, 2014
We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....
August 03, 2014
The first thing that comes to most people's minds when you say, "The Ten Commandments,"...
August 02, 2014
I'm taking a break from posting about Clojure this week, because a few weeks ago...
August 01, 2014
I've finally got my Internet access back (at close-of-business on Thursday) and so I'm scrambling...

July 2014

July 31, 2014
Oh, you could do it all by magic, you certainly could. You could wave a...
July 30, 2014
The internet has been broken at our house since yesterday morning. It isn't clear whether...
July 29, 2014
So last night I finished reading Terry Pratchett's Going Postal to my wife and kids....
July 28, 2014
We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....
July 27, 2014
In paragraph 45 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis makes a point about the Profession of...
July 26, 2014
As I noted last week, the Clojure way is to keep immutable (unchanging) data separate...
July 25, 2014
We were on vacation last week, and during the week the kids managed to watch...
July 24, 2014
“You mean you knew there was going to be a murder before it even happened?”...
July 23, 2014
I've sometimes thought that Dominican contemplation is very active contemplation, because Dominicans are active contemplatives....
July 22, 2014
Night and Demons is a collection of some of David Drake's short stories. Each story...
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