Brandon's Notepad @brandonsnotepad@writing.exchange
Live richly, take notes along the way. Lifelong learner, techie, reader, Catholic convert, tea & coffee lover, socially-conscientious patriot. ICXC+NIKA
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#introduction Hello, Fediverse! My name is Brandon. I have been blogging since 2008. I write about productivity, technology, books, religion, coffee and tea, and Texas. I joined Mastodon to share my work and learn from other writers, but also to escape Twitter, which has proven to be useful for neither of these things. You can find my blog at http://brandonsnotepad.wordpress.com.
April's Blog Plan has been posted. I have some new #GettingThingsDone posts to write, including a crossover post with #GTD & #bulletjournal. I'm picking up where I left off years ago with my review of #ConversationsWithGod #CWG Book 1. Also, some more #Azure #DevOps and #ServiceNow pieces, and rounding things out with another #journal type review and the last #patristics summary regarding #Saint #Polycarp.
For details:
https://brandonsnotepad.wordpress.com/2021/04/02/blog-planning-april-2021/
Continuing my survey of #journaling and #journal types, I posted my overview of Ryder Carroll’s #BulletJournal (#BuJo for short). I use one myself, so the research was easy. Enjoy!
https://brandonsnotepad.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/the-bullet-journal/
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Longing for the Louvre? The Museum Just Uploaded Over 75 Percent of Its Fabled Collection to a Browsable New Online Database.
The database includes looted items recovered from Germany in 1945 that are waiting to be restored to the families.
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Spent the evening setting up a Jekyll site on GitHub based on Simple.css from the excellent @kev
Catholic Theology
Of all the #EarlyChurchFathers I've reviewed, the fragments of #Papias have taken the longest to unpack. I didn't think a document so short would require so much research! Mysterious, very popular, and eye-opening.
Ever ask why the #CatholicChurch teaches the perpetual virginity of #Mary despite the #Bible claim that Jesus had brothers? Were you told that it is #tradition? This is an early part of that tradition.
#Catholic #Orthodox #Christian #church
https://brandonsnotepad.wordpress.com/2021/03/17/papias-fragments/
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Has anyone messed with the Sidekick browser yet? It seems like an interesting project. It's chromium fork with a focus on productivity. Talks the talk, privacy-wise. It really emphasizes web apps (even calls itself an "OS"). It's kinda gimmicky, but depending on what you're looking for in a browser, it might be worth looking into though.
I’ve heard that you can follow accounts from other platforms on the #Fediverse from #Mastodon. Yesterday, I decided to test this and started following a #podcast on #Funkwhale. I’ve already received a toot announcing the release of an episode. This Fedithing is growing on me.
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Coffee Poem
Bean Burial
March 12, 2021
my coffee is a pyramid
my coffee is a tomb
I buried chocolate in it
now mocha flowers bloom
they said to eat my vegetables
they said to eat my meat
to stuff myself on fruits and grains
but to coffee I retreat
o let me sup with dignity
with cream, or cinnamon
or black, so black, so very black
delight in silent doom
o pause of death I shall not fear
for every level cheers
coffee bottom, coffee top
coffee forever here
and when they weigh my soul again
onto the feather side I’ll lay
inverted mountainous refrain
the coffee that I’ve consumed
no fear of death have I
nor resurrection, not beside
a comfort to my well stained soul
drowned on joyous ride
* * *
#poem #poetry #coffee
March 12, 2021
my coffee is a pyramid
my coffee is a tomb
I buried chocolate in it
now mocha flowers bloom
they said to eat my vegetables
they said to eat my meat
to stuff myself on fruits and grains
but to coffee I retreat
o let me sup with dignity
with cream, or cinnamon
or black, so black, so very black
delight in silent doom
o pause of death I shall not fear
for every level cheers
coffee bottom, coffee top
coffee forever here
and when they weigh my soul again
onto the feather side I’ll lay
inverted mountainous refrain
the coffee that I’ve consumed
no fear of death have I
nor resurrection, not beside
a comfort to my well stained soul
drowned on joyous ride
* * *
#poem #poetry #coffee
"When the general minister and the rest of the universe toiled for this day's work..."
I hope Google Translate produces coherent results for other languages. The irony: Latin is "dead". It doesn't change. This should be cake for the great oracle of the Internet.
Another gem:
"The statutes of the individual, and also, privileges, and rights which the singulars, in which families and the individual in private, they used a the pleasure of dwelling, and none at all that is the difference..."
smh
My federated timeline is like so much driftwood.
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@brandonsnotepad Society holding people accountable sounds good in theory, but a few problems arise in practice. First of all, it gives the power to the collective "culture" aka whatever the majority or loudest minority believes is right and just in the moment. What happens to an individual's right to free expression and a defense? What happens when what's socially "right" changes? Secondly, it doesn't allow for repentance, forgiveness, or mercy. How does that lead to positive growth for anyone?
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New #blog post: “A look at search engines with their own indexes”.
Most “alternative” search engines to the big three (Google, Bing, Yandex aka GBY) just source their results from GBY. I took a look at 30 search engines with their own crawlers/indexers to find actual alternatives.
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The guy who did my vaccine shot today was an IT grad; jobs being what they are in my area, he got a job as a vaccine tech (he did a great job, too) because he needed the work
He doesn't know it, but he's living the dream. Everyone who works in IT wants to stab people, he gets to actually do it!
#Blogging #Plan for March has just been published. It's going to be a busy month! One big benefit of #planning my #blog posts in this way is that I can build in some balance between the various topics.
https://brandonsnotepad.wordpress.com/2021/03/03/blog-planning-march-2021/
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Hay algo que extraño de los «tiempos aquellos» en los que no había Internet. Cuando alguien publicaba algo entonces, había muchísimo trabajo detrás: escritor, revisor, editor, corrector de estilo, etc. Hoy cualquiera publica lo que quiera.
¡Y está bien!… pero tampoco tanto. Muchos adoptaron su derecho a publicar lo que quieran, pero olvidaron que también tienen la responsabilidad de publicar adecuadamente. Toda la desinformación que hay hoy es una mera consecuencia de todo ello.
Live richly, take notes along the way. Lifelong learner, techie, reader, Catholic convert, tea & coffee lover, socially-conscientious patriot. ICXC+NIKA
Joined Jan 2021
