Eric Scheske
Something for Sunday Morning
"Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be
inconvenienced by them."
St. Francis de Sales
BYCU
No time for blogging today, so I offer this six-pack of cool pics:
Thursday
Random
"Bubble Ball" is the king of the iPod Application universe. It has been
downloaded over 2 million times. The developer? A fourteen-year-old boy from
Utah
[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1348293/Robert-Nay-14-video-game-iPhone-app-Bubble-Boy-downloaded-2m-times.html]
. I don't care much for video games, but the application is
Wednesday
Von Mises
I'm fifty pages into Human Action. Only 850 pages to go.
I'm impressed, to put it mildly. Of course, I went in expecting to be blown
away, so the book had a receptive audience, but still: it's awfully impressive
so far. His
Tuesday
Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly
Pedophiles. Abusers secretly moved to other posts. Rampant cover-up. Dang
Catholics! Oh wait. They're talking about the public schools. . . . more>>
[http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/a_priest_and_an_altar_boy_hah.html]
A giant in his time, bigger even
Attention New York
My family and I are coming there this year. We are in the planning stages. We
plan to stay in mid-town Manhattan. Our first question: Will we be able to park
our 12-person Econoline van? It's 9-feet high, so parking garages are out of the
question.
We don&
Monday
Announcing New Feature
I read over the weekend that Dennis Dutton died. Dutton was the creator of Arts
& Letters Daily [http://www.aldaily.com/], one of the best websites in the
cyberworld (which he sold in 2002 but continued to edit). For simple elegance
(published as a 18th-century broadsheet)
Something for Sunday Morning
“The rational creature cannot wish not to be happy.” St. Thomas Aquinas
Brews You Can Use
Johnny Horton Stuff
I know Anchorage is in southern Alaska, but I would've thought it was night time
at least 18 hours a day right now. No matter: They're hosting their 16th Annual
Great Alaska Beer & Barley Wine Festival
[http://www.alaskadispatch.com/culture/shop-907/