Monday, September 09, 2024
Arranged marriages can be valid
Not so surprising when you consider that adults can consent to delegate their authority.
Labels: catholic
Thursday, August 15, 2024
WordStar archive
Big word processor back in the day and still beloved by writers. Fun to play with.
Labels: computers
British Cigarette Day
But they use a different word. Past is a foreign country etc etc.
Tuesday, July 09, 2024
New Marian apparitions approved
Well new as in 1947 and 1966, but still, newly approved.
Labels: catholic
Tuesday, July 02, 2024
Don't Trust Google
A view of Google's continued creation and destruction of messaging apps, building the same functionality a couple of dozen times but making not a lot of progress.
Labels: technology
Saturday, June 15, 2024
Acoemetae
Did not know there was an order of monks that kept a prayer going 24/7 in history, really cool. Let's bring it back!
Friday, March 29, 2024
The competent opting out
What happens with the competent retire, burn out or opt out? It's a question few bother to ask because the base assumption is that there is an essentially limitless pool of competent people who can be tapped or trained to replace those who retire, burn out or opt out, i.e. quit in favor of a lifestyle that doesn't require much in the way of income or stress.Feeling this one in companies I interact with and my own life.
These assumptions are no longer valid.
Labels: work
Sunday, March 17, 2024
El Dorado West closed in 2017
Not exactly breaking news, but I was trying to go there and couldn't find it - I kept finding another El Dorado I had never known existed. Doing a little research, the family owned a mini-diner empire and got pushed out for a Honda service center. Very sad times.
