Shout out to all the dads out there who, like my dad, didn’t have a father in their household but became great dads anyways. You can do it too.
Shout out to all the dads out there who, like my dad, didn’t have a father in their household but became great dads anyways. You can do it too.
Wondering about steampunk, but for carpentry and wood based technology. Nautical culture through the Napoleonic wars would be where you start. Maybe one could include Master and Commander or Moby Dick as early examples.
Some fun photos of the Turtle from the American revolution:
The physical manuscript is also remarkable in a variety of ways. The notation on each page is remarkably neat, rivaling some of the master composers and arrangers whose collections are held by the Music Division. Nearly every shanty also includes multiple handwritten verses, showing a variety of lyrical inspirations…
![In the three smaller lines below the shanty’s title, James Dwight Dana notates two Indigenous musical traditions as inspiration for “My Tent beside the Oregon.” The top line is attributed to the Chinook tribe, and the bottom two lines are attributed to the Chekalis [Chehalis] tribe. ML96 .D26 no. 1, Music Division, Library of Congress.](https://blogs.loc.gov/music/files/2026/05/ShipboardSongs_Image4-scaled-e1780004893193.jpg)
What an utter travesty. I demand to speak with MSU’s supervisor. I can’t even see the bottom of the reflecting pools.
Steve Rosenberg reporting from Moscow:
But on Thursday, President Vladimir Putin said nothing about the drone assault. The news bulletins on Russian TV channels barely mentioned it.
When Russian newspapers reported the story the following day, I detected a common thread in their coverage: a coordinated message, perhaps, for the domestic audience.
It can be summed up as this: “However bad it is for us, Ukraine’s suffering more”.
Ghost in the Shell TV shows (I’ve seen the films, haven’t spent time with the Manga) remain one of my favorite artistic expressions of a creative studio trying to articulate the sociological implications of an information economy driven society. We’re about to get a new reinterpretation.
🎓📚Reading more Williams and Da Silva on postliberalism:
“Milbank remarks that “‘post’ is different from ‘pre’ and implies not that liberalism is all bad, but that it has inherent limits and problems.” Moreover, the inherent limits and problems that Milbank sees in liberalism have little to do with its institutions (Milbank is no opponent of electoral democracy and civil liberties), but rather with the philosophical anthropology and (tacitly) theological presuppositions that actors within these institutions usually take for granted.” Williams and Da Silva, 2025, p. 68
I don’t understand why I have to be completely logged in and awake before I can plug a Dell Laptop into a Dell Docking station hooked up to 2 Dell Monitors for the monitors to activate. Shouldn’t I just be able to plug the laptop in and go?
📚 My daughter (first child, almost five and a half) has expressed to mom that she wants to start reading Chronicles of Narnia at bedtime, and both of us are basically treating this whole situation like encountering a flighty horse on a cliff side that we desperately don’t want to spook.
As someone who has come to rely on Markdown as a useful alternative to Word and Google Docs these are a delightful discussion and read:
A deeply nerdy (complimentary) look at the history of Markdown. And more on Markdown, its function and legacy from Anil Dash.
🎓📚Reading more about postliberalism’s foundations today. A summary from Jacob Williams and João Pinheiro Da Silva:
“Postliberal theology thus reflected, among other things, a profound skepticism of individualism as a social ontology, perceiving a need to recover a hermeneutic that recognized its inseparability from the life of a particular community rather than speciously positing an epistemic foundation (whether modern or traditional) lying outside the community.” Williams and Da Silva, 2025, p. 64
Anyone else have a pinboard.in account and having trouble reaching a server?
📚 Currently reading: The Flag and the Cross by Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry. On the deep story progressives have to contend with to truly build a multicultural democratic movement:
Secular progressivism also has its deep story. In that story, a morally and intellectually advanced elite shepherds a backward and benighted mass toward prosperity and enlightenment. In the early 20th century, this deep story was entangled with nativism, imperialism, and eugenics. Today it is tinged with “workism,“ meritocracy and technocracy. And, in many cases, with an instinctive antipathy toward organized religion, which is regarded as a mortal threat to personal autonomy or even a form of “child abuse.“ If they are really serious about liberal democracy, then secular progressives will also have to set aside some of their own most deeply held prejudices, prejudices that have also played an important role in stoking populist resentment and driving political polarization. (P.129)
⛪️ Up North 📷
Some up north 🌳 bathing 📷
Some Up North 📷
Some light reading on a Tuesday from Luke Sheahan:
“From [Robert] Nisbet’s perspective, the post-liberal attempt to redirect state power from individualizing the populace to integrating the populace into meaningful community is dubious because the origins and structure of state power renders it an inherent social solvent.” (Sheahan, 2025, p. 178)
Reading scholarly work as I’m trying to define the contours of a “postliberal” education policy landscape. An early question I have is whether or not any resistance to the subordination of institutions to partisan aims requires a pluralistic approach, or if resisting deinstitutionalization requires a ‘your for us or against mentality on both sides.’
Judging from the headline and thumbnail of this endorsement editorial post the @houstonchronicle.com sounds like Southern Baptists in 1998.
Spring Progress 📷 2026.05.28
Final photo to label spring. Summer ascendant.
Here’s the whole progression:
Been sitting with the news that Destiny is going into the gamer vault with no firm plans for a future release. It’s got me reminiscing on The Taken King, and all the evenings I remember fondly running raids or PVP with my friends.
