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things too wonderful: May 2012
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ELIJAH WAS A MAN WITH A NATURE LIKE OURS. Sunday, May 27, 2012. Is it a good thing or a bad thing that we can record music? Meaning, on balance, are we better or worse off because we have this capability? It is hard for me to answer that question because I do not know much about what it was like before recording, and it is impossible to picture a world in which all else is the same but for the absence of this one technology. Nevertheless, I think the question is worth asking. America has consistently cho...
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things too wonderful: Epic Commuting
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ELIJAH WAS A MAN WITH A NATURE LIKE OURS. Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Since starting a new job my morning commute consists of a four-mile bike ride uphill to Overbrook Train Station, where the R5 carries me onward to work at Radnor. That is unless it rains, in which case I take West Chester Pike to the Blue Route. On the car route, just into Upper Darby one meets the Three Sisters. At a similar point in the bike commute one meets Girard: Graveyard of the Proud. The foolhardy biker might meet the gradual incli...
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things too wonderful: June 2013
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ELIJAH WAS A MAN WITH A NATURE LIKE OURS. Saturday, June 22, 2013. A Game Writ Large. We are going to build a world together. To adulterate Shakespeare, all the world's a stage, and we men and women might aspire to be players. Games are generally thought of as a waste of time, but I have been reflecting lately on how useful they have been in preapring me for real life. I am thinking especially of strategy games, of games like the card game Magic: The Gathering and the German table game Agricola. To play ...
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things too wonderful: August 2013
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ELIJAH WAS A MAN WITH A NATURE LIKE OURS. Saturday, August 31, 2013. My job is worthwhile. When people ask me what my company Relay Network does, I tell them we're trying to make it easier for businesses and customers to communicate over smartphones. I then give a few examples of the products we offer, and they get it, but I suspect this is a case where a concrete example could bring them to the " grok point. Back I was really wishing that Lenovo already made use of it. These kinds of interactions betwee...
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things too wonderful: August 2012
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ELIJAH WAS A MAN WITH A NATURE LIKE OURS. Saturday, August 25, 2012. Snapshot of the Good Life. Part 1 of an n-part series, where n = 1. You go to the farmer's market in Clark Park for eggs, those Mennonite eggs that are better than the eggs that cost twice as much. You got a late start and so they don't have any, but they say if you come back at 1:30 there should be a few more cartons. The sandwich hits the spot but now you've got a problem. Your hands are a mess, you didn't take a napkin, and this ...
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things too wonderful: July 2012
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ELIJAH WAS A MAN WITH A NATURE LIKE OURS. Monday, July 23, 2012. The small portions may be a little silly, but they mean that everyone can partake in the meal at the same time (followed immediately by the clink of a hundred plastic cups being set down). Then the pastor prays, we sing a song, we're blessed, and that's it. We on the team clean up the supplies and put them away for the next week. As we cleaned up after the service we munched on extra bread in the back room. An older gentleman on the tea...
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things too wonderful: A Game Writ Large
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ELIJAH WAS A MAN WITH A NATURE LIKE OURS. Saturday, June 22, 2013. A Game Writ Large. We are going to build a world together. To adulterate Shakespeare, all the world's a stage, and we men and women might aspire to be players. Games are generally thought of as a waste of time, but I have been reflecting lately on how useful they have been in preapring me for real life. I am thinking especially of strategy games, of games like the card game Magic: The Gathering and the German table game Agricola. To play ...
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things too wonderful: January 2013
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ELIJAH WAS A MAN WITH A NATURE LIKE OURS. Wednesday, January 16, 2013. Making Friends with Microbes. This, my first sourdough bread, could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Are you afraid of animals? I realize that I may be too credulous, and like an owner of a Burmese python my trust may one day come back to bite me. But I would rather not overstep sensible habits like washing my hands with soap and in so doing put myself in opposition to the whole weight of no less than three taxonomic ki...
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things too wonderful: November 2012
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ELIJAH WAS A MAN WITH A NATURE LIKE OURS. Monday, November 12, 2012. One of the most general critiques of technologies is that as we come to rely on them, we become more helpless when they fail or we find oursleves without them. One of the easiest examples is the technology of GPS. With a GPS one is largely spared the burden of ever being lost. The tradeoff is that if one is not careful, one will also lose the joy of knowing one's way around. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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things too wonderful: Play it Again, Joe West
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ELIJAH WAS A MAN WITH A NATURE LIKE OURS. Wednesday, October 2, 2013. Play it Again, Joe West. Humans watching humans playing a human sport. I am a baseball conservative and a baseball purist. My positions are two-dimensional and trivial to guess. I hate the designated hitter and I do not think Barry Bonds deserves to go to the Hall of Fame. I hate instant replay. I hate it even more than I hate blown calls by umpires. But its advent is hardly surprising given the zeitgeist. Without intending to the ency...
