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Nationality and family

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

Andrius and I, tonight, by virtue of Vincas’s intervention, discovered that “nation” has far too flexible a definition to hold real meaning. It means both those born to a place and those existing in it. this flexible a definition obscures too much, allowing you to become of a nation, but never to leave [...]

Trip 01

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

Sitting in “The Red Carpet Club” since our flight is not until nearly 10pm, and Vincas upgraded our tickets. It has real seats, which is nice. Vincas has me carrying a “growler” of beer for him, and my backpack ended up carrying the bottle of champagne that he’s giving to his soon to [...]

OSX still sucks part2

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

Oh, I forgot to mention, yesterday I was having no end of trouble with software serial numbers. So much so that I called apple twice (the second time, I did not reach them, it was after 6pm pdt). So today I call them as soon as they open, only to get told the serial [...]

OSX still sucks

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

So after staying up late last night, today some things just magically start working and others continue to frustrate. Netboot sucks. Badly. I managed to get it to work, but it doesn’t help, because I do not know how to make it install automatically, and I cannot ssh to the images that I [...]

OSX server now sucks

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

I take back all the nice things I said about MacOSX server. It may install easily enough, but the dhcp and netboot stuff both error out, there is no documentation on the error messages, nothing on google, and apple will not support it. That sucks. Oh, and to top it all off, you cannot [...]

News Run Down

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

Things are really busy right now, so just a quick run down.

“Judge Narrows Pledge of Allegiance Lawsuit” by David Kravets of the Associated Press, from Monday, July 18, 2005. While the Judge is attempting to avoid the Pledge of Allegiance itself from being directly declared unconstitutional, I really fail to see how it [...]

The Half Blood Prince

Monday, July 18th, 2005

I finished Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince tonight. It was a very good book. Much of it was happy and amusing, yet more-so than the previous books, it has ended on a sad note. Yet somehow that fits. I do hope that Ginny is smart and stubborn enough to stick with [...]

A thought to remember

Friday, July 15th, 2005

Ms. Elizabeth Foss, writing in the Arlington Catholic Herald, reminds us how much of themselves, of who they are, children get from their parents.[1] This is not only true of her example, the way we talk to children and what we refer to them as, but also of the way they see us act [...]

The Church and evolution

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

Some people might read Cardinal McCarrick’s statement yesterday[1] as backtracking from that of Cardinal Schönborn’s.[2] I do not think it is however. Those who support evolution like to keep the term very vague, they like to use it to refer to everything from a God-guided process to a fully random and unguided one. They [...]

Be Fruitful and multiply

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

Reading Mr. Chuck Colson’s “Europe’s demographic crisis,” it becomes easy to see why a marriage is intended to be a “fruitful” union. Children are intended to support their parents in their old age. This bit of Catholic morality is so self-evident that it is even built into the assumptions behind the welfare state. [...]

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