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  • Self referentialism

    I ran across this meme-y joke recently…

  • Carvell on masculinity

    Found this author on a podcast recently. Carvell’s words resonated with me… “I can’t singlehandedly undo all the misogyny and patriarchy that led to this moment. It was a lifetime of indoctrination to get to this point. It will take a lifetime to get away from it.” Carvell Wallace

  • State of affairs

    State of affairs

    The first presidential debate was last night and I have thoughts.

  • Radical Inclusion in the Darkest Valleys

    Radical Inclusion in the Darkest Valleys

    Several weeks ago, my church had a series on the Lord’s Prayer, picking apart all the elements of the well known prescription of appealing to God.  Near the end of the series was also a deep dive into Psalm 23, with a call to radically inclusive communion in a world that means you harm. God…

  • On solving Cross Sums

    On solving Cross Sums

    As you may remember, I’ve become obsessed with the Dell Magazines puzzle collections: This book of mine has many types of puzzles, most of which are word-based (without being dreadful crosswords, which I suck at) or logic-based (which I love, given my career). One such puzzle of theirs that I’d never heard of before is…

  • Upgraded coop lighting

    Upgraded coop lighting

    I finally got around to upgrading the lighting in my chicken coop.

  • Coding Abstractions

    Abstractions are everywhere. Loops are abstractions. Functions are abstractions. Programming languages themselves are abstractions over machine code, which itself is an abstraction over transistors flickering off and on really fast. It’s abstractions all the way down. Josh Comeau

  • Too Much and Never Enough review

    A devastating read, from cover to cover. Particularly the prologue, wherein Mary Trump really unloads on her uncle. It’s cringe worthy to bear witness to such a public family feud, but if anyone has a right to this much frustration, it’s her.

  • Unwanted logo changes

    Unwanted logo changes

    Why must quality bankable podcasts change their logos?

  • Evangelicalism in the Trump Era

    Evangelicalism in the Trump Era

    I grew up in the Evangelical Christian world. Its various tenets that were most vaulted were: Missions (spreading the Gospel to other nations) Marriage sanctity and nuclear family (one man / one woman, having children) Christian education (curriculum designed for Christian families to be apart from non-Christian public education) American patriotism (gun rights, strict Constitutional…

Recent Comments

  1. Thanks for these thoughts, Rob. I really appreciate your perspective.

  2. The Why We’re Here comic uses the R-word, not cool!

  3. Thank God millennial men are nothing like Walt or your husband! Men don’t need to badmouth and disrespect women to…

  4. Me too! It’s such a clever critique of our consumerist culture. And oddly fitting movie for us that night in…

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