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Friday Flotsam: Mostly About Giving Notice

March 24, 2023 / DBreitenbeck / Leave a comment

1. So, over last weekend I made the decision to quit my current job. I have enough money and do not have any dependents, so staying on for a paycheck just didn't seem worth it. What I'm going to do next is kind of undecided, except that I'm definitely going to be writing more. In … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Mostly About Giving Notice

Thoughts on ‘G.K. Chesterton: A Criticism’

March 21, 2023March 21, 2023 / DBreitenbeck / 1 Comment

This is really one of the most valuable books on Chesterton that I think I have read. Coming from a loving, but clear-sighted brother, it avoids the two errors that many people fall into regarding GKC; that of overpraising him as an infallible or only semi-fallible prophet and of simply dismissing him as an out-of-date … Continue reading Thoughts on ‘G.K. Chesterton: A Criticism’

Feast of St. Joseph: Church and State

March 19, 2023 / DBreitenbeck / 1 Comment

The other day I described the Protestant mentality as a kind of separation of Church and State within the individual. That, of course, itself depends on the idea that there is something like Church and State in the individual, which I seems to me almost self-evident. There is in man that which seeks the ultimate … Continue reading Feast of St. Joseph: Church and State

Friday Flotsam: Mental Health and Recent Reading

March 17, 2023 / DBreitenbeck / 3 Comments

1. It’s been a rough week; at work we had one support person out on vacation and another got fired. Which meant it was just me and one other person on the phones. Working the phones is not at all my skill set. The long and the short is that I ended up with a … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Mental Health and Recent Reading

St. Alphonso on Confession

March 12, 2023 / DBreitenbeck / Leave a comment

From the Sermons of St. Alphonso de Liguori for this day: A disciple of Socrates, at the moment he was leaving a house of bad fame, saw his master pass: to avoid being seen by him, he went back into the house. Socrates came to the door and said: "My son, it is a shameful … Continue reading St. Alphonso on Confession

Friday Flotsam: AI and Sentience, Goldfish, and More

March 10, 2023 / DBreitenbeck / 2 Comments

1. I've never read Song of Ice and Fire or seen Game of Thrones, but I have to pay congratulations to George R.R. Martin: Well done, sir; you have become the new Duke Nukem: Forever. 2. Do people actually take what AI bots say seriously? I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, but still; you do … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: AI and Sentience, Goldfish, and More

More Thoughts On Dante

March 5, 2023 / DBreitenbeck / Leave a comment

This is more or less what was supposed to be in Friday's post. In my reading of The Divine Comedy, the poets have reached Purgatory. It's really a relief to get out of Hell (I mean, you wouldn't think so, but...). I'd forgotten how effective Dante is at making the Inferno more and more unbearable … Continue reading More Thoughts On Dante

Friday Flotsam: Cut Short

March 3, 2023 / DBreitenbeck / 3 Comments

1. Had an unexpectedly bad day yesterday; nothing really happened, but I found myself strangely lethargic and unhappy. I experience this kind of dreariness every now and again, and it never results in anything good. I need to find a way to snap out when that happens. 2. I'm realizing that part of the effect … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Cut Short

Friday Flotsam: Lent and Reading

February 24, 2023 / DBreitenbeck / 2 Comments

1. So another Lent begins. This year I'm focusing on purgation, clearing out habits that have been a drag on my mind and attention span. In particular I'm giving up most video media: no perusing YouTube, no movies, no shows, etc. I'll still work on my own videos some, and still use 'ambience' videos (which … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Lent and Reading

Friday Flotsam: Mostly More ‘Death Note’ and a Few Videos

February 17, 2023 / DBreitenbeck / Leave a comment

1. Another difficult week for me. Work feels like a slow-motion train wreck at the moment. But on the plus side I reviewed my financial situation and realized that I'm not really very worried about losing my job, so that took some of the edge off. 2. One of the things that really stood out … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Mostly More ‘Death Note’ and a Few Videos

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