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@ablerism What a treasure trove! This is exactly what I needed to arm myself for the faculty “summit” we’re having in a few weeks about our future with AI (which, unless I miss my guess, will encourage more adoption/use). I know I’m on the losing side here, but at least I have studies on my side :)

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📚Finished Reading: Let Evening Come, Jane Kenyon.

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Really enjoyed this collection, the second of Kenyon’s I’ve read this year. It could be described as “depressed Annie Dillard writes poetry,” lots of natural imagery and close observation.

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Let it come, as it will, and don’t\nbe afraid. God does not leave us\ncomfortless, so let evening come.

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@jabel @johnbrady @dwalbert Has anyone identified the object lying right behind Jesus? I’m stumped.

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@dwalbert When I made my new bench last summer I used my old top to knock together a roman bench. Can’t believe how much I use it!

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@dwalbert They seem to be going from ball to skein (much like the ladies and gentlemen in period dramas). I came across this in a post by Chris Schwarz about historic workholding (of course), so I expect the little cherub is ripping in a wedge holder of some kind. I just noticed that there is an “under dog” angel as well.

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Actual footage of our family weekend (three bike rides not pictured).

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Two poems about Spring by Jane Kenyon.

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@jabel In his later years my grandfather frequently quoted from Daniel 12 (usually while reading one is his three daily papers or watching the news, and always in the King James), “Many will go to and fro on the earth and knowledge will increase.”

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He never offered an interpretation, but it seemed to help him understand the changes in the world he had seen since he was young.

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@JohnBrady Yes, indeed. I’ll be doing my best on a five string retuned and with the 5th string removed. I’m sure I’ll get flack from a purist in the audience.

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Alas, I am not the hero tenor banjo needs.

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@dwalbert I’m going to try! It’s original to the piece but often isn’t used. Supposed to sound like early jazz of course. The part is a lot more demanding than I expected (hoped), so I’ll have a banjo on my knee quite a bit the next few weeks. I don’t think I’ll sound like this.

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I guess there’s a first time for everything.

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🪕

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@JohnBrady That was the next path of this rabbit hole I was trying to avoid… The weight of life-support slows you down a lot (plus the need not to liquify the astronauts on launch). So a heavier craft is slower, which means you need more life support, which means it’s heavier and slower, and more life support, etc.

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Until we master the fine art of the Tessering it’s not happening.

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The distances of space are wildly counterintuitive. It took the Orion spaceship about a week to reach the moon travelling ~25,000MPH (Mach 32!). At the same speed it would take…15.3 years to reach Mars at it’s average distance from Earth.

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@JudsonGreene You can probably guess where this will take you.

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📚Finished Reading: Living Life Backwards, David Gibson.

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Read this with a group of guys from church and met weekly to discuss it. It’s a compelling interpretation of Ecclesiastes and easily the best book from Crossway I’ve ever read.

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@jabel Makes me feel better about the chalk maple I planted yesterday.

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@todd Just one of the millions of mistakes per hour served up by AI Overview!

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@andrewz the pulsing of IT makes me a little queasy to be teaching on rhythm today.

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@jabel @elliotlovegrove Clare Coffey had a delightful piece about the uses of dandelions a few issues of Plough ago. I have yet to try any, but the harvest is plentiful whenever I want to.

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📚Finished Reading: A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle.

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I somehow missed this book as a child, but would have absolutely loved it when I was about 12. I loved it now, what a delightful book.

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Anole perched in the azaleas.

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It was a quick phone snap walking in the yard (with @calebgreene)I’m delighted how detailed the scales are.

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@jabel You’re a few syllables from a dang good haiku.

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@jaheppler What an image - that band of atmosphere all the way around.

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It made this play in my head. And then I got choked up.

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Music That Made Me: John Tavener, Lamentations and Praises \"\" : isaacgreene.com

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Microtonal Music \"\"\"\" : isaacgreene.com

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@bbowman You know it’s good advice when St. Porphyrios and Mike Tyson agree. Well played.

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@jabel There are many, many musical settings of this, but none quite as good as the plainchant version.

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@dwalbert Ah, and what about risk? All other things being equal, a missing finger is enough to keep me from a tablesaw. An atrophied and desiccated brain is plenty to keep me from AI.

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@JudsonGreene Philo: I wonder why we never get invited to parties. Philo’s wife: Well, maybe if you didn’t have to give your Cheesecakes and Sweetmeats every single time!

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@dwalbert Might have to be my big summer read this year. (Although at my pace it will likely take longer than the summer, maybe vol. 1 at least).

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📚Finished Reading: The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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@davoh So SU is cutting programs to save costs without cutting faculty. Yeah, we all believe that…

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I’m tempted to add students and graduates to your last sentence on things lacking integrity as well. If it’s not part of the curriuculum we shouldn’t be surprised when it never develops.

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@JohnBrady If Q1 of this year is any indication we’re in for a much better year than we had last year. I’ve been wrong before though :)

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Our girls turned 3 yesterday. Feeling all our feelings. Mostly relief we’ve made it this far, but it does go fast.

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@jabel she’s so great! I’ve been watching her YouTube videos a long time.

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@JimRain I didn’t realize she was on Substack. I loved her memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal.

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📚Finished Reading (well, listening on a road trip): Everything is Tuberculosis, John Green.

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Very interesting book on our oldest infectious disease. Great for a road trip audio book.

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@tinyroofnail @jabel Showing us once again that the best search engine is a group of well read friends and acquaintances.

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I love it when a program comes together. It’s the end of the line for this one for now. On to other music.

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Very special to play in my hometown tonight. My teacher from high school invited me to come back and there were lots of friends and family in the audience. Even my childhood dentist came!

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This was it, folks. Best concert I’ve ever heard.

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I can’t remember who first posted the link (step forward if it was you), but I just love this post about struggling with the available tools to make creative things. Feels very much like my first experiences working with computers, woodworking, and even playing my first terrible quality guitar.

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Handful Music: isaacgreene.com

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Some 16th century counterpoint that opens up my concert tomorrow.

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Francesco Canova “Il Divino” da Milano (1497-1543). Lutenist of the papal court (one of the best paying music jobs in the world) and one of the most famous musicians in Europe while he was alive.

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📚 Finished Reading: Talk’s Body: A Meditation Between Two Keyboards, David Sudnow.

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This is the much more readable follow-up to Ways of the Hand. Full of pithy observations on the connections between music, language, writing, the body, mathematics. A book (most) music lovers would likely enjoy.

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I’ll have to think about it more, but on first read I don’t think I buy Terry’s premise that we aren’t responsible for the technical debt of smart devices we accumulate. I agree with the nature of the problem he diagnoses, but how (and of course why) do we end up with so many needy devices? They make a...

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Hadn’t listened to Jessye Norman singing Strauss’s Four Last Songs in a while, one of the most beautiful things I know of. I can’t make it through Beim Schlafengehen with dry eyes.

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Screen Time: isaacgreene.com

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With the end of daylight savings time and our early spring the after supper family bike ride has returned.

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📚Finished Reading: Ways of the Hand: The organization of improvised conduct, David Sudnow.

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I expect this book would be unbearably tedious to most readers, but it is relevant to a very slim niche of my teaching practice and was exactly the book for me. Thanks @mbattles for the recommendation.

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It’s been about a year since I started my project of reducing time on my phone. My number has been in this range the last few weeks. Down from a max of about 4 hours, I’m very happy with this.

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Basically all this time is texting, finding music/podcasts, micro.blog, and reading articles on Substack.

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