Eric Scheske
Personal Computer and Personal Choice
In 1968, Carver Mead, professor at California Institute of Technology, began to demonstrate the possibilities of placing an entire computer on one chip at a cost of just a few dollars. He also began to preach the possibilities of the innovation, asserting it would end the burdensome and expensive computer
The Stoics and Me
As an uptight Christian, I've sought spiritual counsel from St. John the Apostle to Thomas Merton, from Augustine through Aquinas to Guardini. They all helped.
But I still suffered from uptightness and swings of passion: worry about the future; sudden bursts of good emotional energy, mortgaged with my
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Count Me In
I love everything about Christmas. I even like its commercialization. And I love gin.
The problem is, I'm not sure it's available in the U.S.
Gordon’s Unveils Sugar Plum Gin Liqueur Just in Time for Holiday ImbibingAs the holiday season approaches,
The Origins of the Tavern: A Micro-History
The bar in English-speaking countries traces its roots back to Roman Britain where drinking establishments flourished. The establishments declined with Rome, but they came back in the Middle Ages, largely through the efforts of monasteries to provide for travelers. By the fifteenth century, three different drinking establishments were found in
Has the Rabble Breached Another Wall in the Castle of High Culture?
The New Criterion properly considers itself an urbane journal of the arts. With this, comes a commitment to first-rate style, without regard to the Idiocracy that is overwhelming our culture.
But I saw something interesting (or disturbing, depending on whether one cheers this cultural secular bear market or condemns it)
Picture Books for Adults
This is a delightful piece from Public Books. I especially liked this observation about how medieval monks would read:
This form of reading, de Hamel says, is one reason why so many medieval manuscripts have richly decorated pages. The decorations “helped impress a page visually in the reader’s memory,
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Another Modern Drunkard Magazine tribute
That Inscription at the Temple of Apollo Won't Go Away
These Monks Were on a Search-and-Destroy Mission Against Their Left Hemispheres
It's hard to admit this, but here goes:
Back in my twenties, I decided I wanted to be a mystic.
Such a thing is absurd: The goal is foiled by the goal. You might as well decide you want to be a poor man with money (one of