Friday, August 19, 2025
Corby took this picture on our walk around the Orenaug loop.
Corby took this picture on our walk around the Orenaug loop.
... And a walk in the garden wears me down.
This years is a repeat of last year
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There was this Red
Shouldered Hawk just sitting still today. He sat there for a long time
so Corby was able to get his picture.
Yesterday was my birthday.
Bob Dylan on what helps him relax comming from an
interview
in Wall Street Journal about his book
The Philosophy of Modern Song
My problem is that I’m too relaxed, too laid-back. Most of the time I
feel like a flat tire; totally unmotivated, positively lifeless.
David Brooks once again has a column that is right on. In his current column he ask
What is MAGA, anyway?.
In the article he describes how MAGA provides security but that it comes from a
scarcity mindset, a zero sum kind of thinking that is far from the
abundance
way of thinking that is more traditionally American and that we need right now.
Bret Stephens, a conservative commentator at the New York Times has an article Republicans Will Regret a Second Trump Term that I think describes pretty accurately what a second Trump term will be like.
Can Men Live Without War?
In 1956 Vannevar
Bush wrote an article for The
Atlanticasking this question ending with the following
paragraph.
No more war? Peace is indeed in sight if we are wise. But not an end of
contest or struggle. And certainly not an end of opportunity, which may
render the lives of those who follow us not insipid but virile, not
belligerent but creative.
Read the whole thing!
Oh my! What kind of instrument is this? Watch this in full screen mode.
This just unfurled today.
Rewilding the Internet: - this is nothing new but the authors expose how the Internet has become a mono-culture. Do your part to reclaim our spaces both in Nature and the Internet.
It's racing season in Kentucky. These are beautiful farms. The Derby is tomorrow.
Images from 3 years of War in Ukraine We need to look at these more often to get better at what war looks like.
It's a big tree on the board walk to Little Pond at White Memorial.
This is what the fortifications look like that the Russians are using in Ukraine.
David Brooks has articulated a compelling argument why Hamas must be defeated. This won't be pleasant or easy but I think David is right.
Join your vcard and rss feed to create a complete profile
So that's when I realized, if there's a widely used open standard for feeds, and another for profiles, why not join the two? By embedding an RSS/Atom feed URL in a vCard, it becomes a single file that has all the information needed to identify a person and follow their updates. Since it's a single file, it's easy to share it with others as well as store the vCards for all your connections locally.
This is pay-walled by the times but is definitely worth trying to see. Every one of them made me smile and the artist seems to be a joy and someone who loves the city.
You read an article by someone and you think this person is different. Alec Wilkinson is that kind of person. I read the first article (about learning math at 65) not knowing who he was but then I learned he was a writer for the New Yorker for the last 40 years. Here is a link to an article in the New Yorker about the jazz guitarist Julian Lage. If I could only be this cool!
This
article about the production (and shortage) of 155m Artillery Shells is
informative and brings you back to the industrial basis of war. The 10 minute
video is worth the time and many readers will have never seen a close up of an
industrial process.
Organized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand
worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities. Can it be stopped?
As seen in Hacker
News
Religious organizations doing good! Hundreds of faith groups are using their property to build homes.
For cash-poor congregations that face declining revenue and member participation and rising maintenance costs, developing housing can offer a financial benefit while also expanding their social mission.
We are in Kentucky working on cleaning out Corby's Dad's house and it has been very cold and snowing.
Paper wings, all torn and bent You made me feel that They were heaven sent Paper wings, not real at all But they took me high Enough to really fall Your paper kisses faded too soon Just like a paper rose 'Neath a paper moon Paper wings, paper wings Oh how could I expect To fly with only paper wings? Angels were singing, didn't you hear If only I'd listened close When they whispered in my ear Paper wings, paper wings Oh how could I expect To fly with only paper wings? I tried to fly but found That I had only paper wings
Connecticut Business and Industry Association [CBIA] has a good article concerning AI, "Ten Strategies for Using AI in Manufacturing" I just recently learned about the group.
David Brooks has an article today in the NYT that is better than usual. It's about how to return to a positive-sum world of growth, innovation and peace. I'm all for that.
Michelle Goldberg also has a good article in today's NYT. America Must Face Up to Israel’s Extremism
Corby finished her Christmas puzzle. It takes a lot of work to complete these 1000 piece puzzles but she is pretty good at it.