Part of the process of building the Brooklyn Bridge (as with other, similar structures) involved sinking pressurized caissons made of reinforced timber into the East River so that workers could dig the foundations into the river bottom. The caissons go to the bottom, are pressurized to the level of the surrounding water to keep them … Continue reading The Invisible Fire
Author: DBreitenbeck
Friday Flotsam: Self-Examination
1. Maybe it's from what I've been reading, or maybe it's born of melancholy, but today I feel like being honest and 'real' as the saying goes and just sharing a bit about myself and my perspective in general. Though I suppose how real I am is something of an open question. But never mind. … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Self-Examination
Pilgrim’s Pass: Gollum as the Failed Man
I've mentioned this before, but Pilgrim's Pass is rapidly becoming one of my favorite YouTubers: he's very intelligent, well-read, has a fun sense of humor, and an interestingly fresh perspective that eschews the dying left-right dichotomy. His latest video (which follows others on Aragorn, Frodo, and Gandalf) deals with Gollum as an example of failed … Continue reading Pilgrim’s Pass: Gollum as the Failed Man
Trying to Hide
Another quick DAZ creation. It's the same girl as before, only now she seems to have gotten into bit of trouble. In her defense, when has exploring an abandoned insane asylum in the middle of the night ever ended badly?
Poem – “An American to Mother England”
England! My England! Can the surging seaThat lies between us tear my heart from thee?Can distant birth and distant dwelling drainTh’ ancestral blood that warms the loyal vein?Isle of my Fathers! hear the filial songOf him whose sources but to thee belong!World-conquering Mother! by thy mighty handWas carv’d from savage wilds my native land:Thy matchless … Continue reading Poem – “An American to Mother England”
St. George at C365
Late in posting this owing to a busy day, but for today's Catholic 365 post I did a piece on St. George: It is further related of him that, one day in his travels, he came to a place by a great lake, wherein there dwelt a dragon who envenomed the whole district. To appease … Continue reading St. George at C365
C365: The Rogation Days
Another C365 article, this one touching on the Rogation Days: In any case, even apart from the ever-present potential for disaster, there is the ever-present question of food. Though modern fertilizers, chemicals, and industrial farming produces an enormous surplus (whatever else may be said of it), yet it remains farming. The food we eat comes … Continue reading C365: The Rogation Days
Friday Flotsam: Traveling, Pollution, and ‘My Hero Academia’
1. I'm currently on the road visiting my sister and brother-in-law in Alabama. 2. On the way we've been listening to A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, about the author's attempt to hike the Appalachian Trail, which alternates between oft-hilarious anecdotes of him and his degenerate, but strangely lovable friend struggling along the … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Traveling, Pollution, and ‘My Hero Academia’
Lovecraft at C365
Just posted another essay at Catholic365, this one about why Catholics should read H.P. Lovecraft: There is no question in my mind that Mr. H.P. Lovecraft is one of the great American writers. Certainly he is one of the most influential; there has hardly been a horror or science-fiction tale since that has not owed … Continue reading Lovecraft at C365
A Glamor Shot
Messing about in Daz the other day, I whipped this up. Just because.
Serpent's Den 