Revelry Reverie

My dad sent me this text today (reproduced with his permission and his correction that it happened on the 13th): “So I’m at choir practice Tuesday evening practicing for the 100th anniversary dedication of SMOTA (St Mary of the Angels) on September 14th.  Fr Gregg who is directing the practice has to go to a…

Again from Smarter Than You Think: Audiences clarify the mind even more…. And suddenly all the weak points to their argument, their cliches and lazy, autofill  thinking, become painfully obvious. Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo…writes about search-engine politics, and he once described the process neatly: Blogging forces you to write down your arguments and…

Eleanor: “dad, what do snowmen eat?” Bob: “I don’t know, what?” Eleanor: “heh, good joke!” Bob: “wait. What do snowmen eat?” Eleanor: “hotdogs! Hahahaha ha!” Eleanor: “Henry, what do snowmen eat?” Henry: “Snow! And penguins.”