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‘Religion is an Ever-Receding Pocket of Scientific Ignorance’ | Neil deGrasse Tyson I gave up on faith. I prefer having high, high hopes for a living. A few notes from this video: “The measure of whether you learn something is not whether it was obviously true to you upon first glance.” Neil Degrasse Tyson Eyewitness…
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April 2, 2024 I actually logged in to WordPress and found a couple of legit comments that somehow completely escaped my attention for several days… Thanks stupid Jetpack nonsense. One was from Jeff Cann who said: “In my 11 years of blogging, I’ve alternately craved becoming one of those viral bloggers making a career (or…
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March 12, 2024 RJ’s video on the brand new stable Gleam programming language got me thinking… I commented : “I wonder how many programming languages are born every day and how many actually reach the stable stage. It’s dizzying how many even stable languages exist, but what I always wonder is what languages are best…
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This is from March 5, 2024, but deserved to be revisited today. RJ had an amazing video today about some of his favorite aphorisms. My Top Five – Personal Aphorisms (And Their Origins) by The Flourishing One of them is “Will X thank me for Y?” People tend to have many self-destructive habits and recognizing…
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Stuff I am viewing on a popular video sharing platform on the 11th June 2026. Exploring Hidden Gems At The Mall | Retail Archaeology by Retail Archeology. A positive video showing malls being repopulated by small businesses. I also learned he has a second channel. The Other Side of History by No More Fielders NMF…
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As familiar as I am with the concept of the Trumpet of the Swan I never actually read it before May 2023. The Library of Congress summary: Louis, a voiceless trumpeter swan, finds himself far from his wilderness home when he determines to communicate by learning to play a stolen trumpet. The book opens in…
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YouTube watchings for the tenth of June of the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty Six… Madonna – “Confessions II – The Film” Somehow yesterday I missed the release of Madonna’s short film “Confessions II.” It’s very bizarre. Seriously, what’s with the crotch lasers? I do like what she says about the dance…
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Concerning the viewing habits of one oddball Vermont citizen in the timespan that is regarded by the commonly adopted calendar as June the 9th, 2026. in defense of gathering by Anna Howard (Won’t let me embed. Fair enough, YouTube.) The ‘Wild Geese’ podcast just keeps getting better. Anna said something amazing. She has a theory of…
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These were written 2007/2008 and tinkered with over the past decade-plus. I didn’t really know where to publish them, so on Obscure Curiosities they went. I’ve tweaked a bit more in 2026, but for the most part, these are my original thoughts from the later years of my ill-fated “college experience.” I There is always…
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I participated in the 1000 Words of Summer yearly challenge that novelist Jami Attenberg holds on her CRAFT TALK Substack. While I didn’t participate in the actual community, as it involved being a paid member of her substack, instead of the two week challenge, I completed 30 days of writing at least 1000 words in…
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I have no idea where I got all these quotes from, but here they are. I need to put them somewhere, because they’re fascinating. On a Single Minute: “An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.” On Being Well-Ordered: “Be steady and well-ordered in your life…
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I never finished reading this book and I don’t think I even have my copy anymore. But I feel these quotes are worth sharing for further perusal. On Absurdity: “… as Albert Camus observed, we humans are creatures who spend our lives trying to convince ourselves that our existence is not absurd.” I gave up…
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The book comes with high praise from Anna Howard from Wild Geese. It opens with a lot of praise, too. And that always makes me skeptical, how pushed this book is. But I already like that one of them used the term ‘relationshipping’ over networking. That is a good sign. The quote that opens the…
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If you missed part one… you can find it here at Barnes and Noble: rescuegirl557.com/darkhorse You can find Volume 2 here on B&N: rescuegirl557.com/darkhorse2 This is the second volume of my wife Emily Slatin’s autobiographical essay series. I’ll be taking notes on this book just like any other. I will return to cover part one…
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I will finish this book at some point this year, hopefully. There’s just so much here and I’ve been in a terrible reading slump. I’ve gotten so much from just the introduction, written by Michael C Fisher. “A man of letters knows only a little about some major human concerns, but insists on relating what…
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Fun fact. I actually searched for the unabridged version of this book. Apparently I missed the joke at first… got me there. The inside of the book jacket starts with this: “Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what’s happening in the universe. Our senses and intuition routinely mislead us.” And…
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John Koenig starts his 2021 book with a Steven Wright quote (the comedian not the knuckleball pitcher) The book is divided into six sections, likely how I will study this book is to give an overview of each facet of the human experience underrepresented by our common vocabulary: Koenig notes that these words he’s coined…
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Perhaps the best affirmation I’ve come across this month is this: “I start every morning with positive intentions.” It’s amazing how much just having a single positive intention to build your day around can lead you to making better decisions about how you should choose to spend your time and energy. Soon as I started…
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The thought occurred to me one day…maybe the big, tangled knot of the world’s troubles unravels down to something incredibly simple: people just won’t get out of each other’s way. Worse yet, we step on others’ ideas all the time, usually holding a watering can rather than wielding a club. What we mean to prune,…