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B.A., Sociology with a minor in Science, Technology, and Society, 2010, The University of Texas at Austin
M.B.A., Business Analytics, 2024, Midwestern State University (TX)
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Appointmentpalooza 2009
Bishop Gregory M. Aymond announced an incredible list of appointments today for the Diocese of Austin. I can’t remember a list being quite so long. In bold are appointments of particular note to me (via vocations, campus ministry, Paulists in some shape or another). In order to provide pastoral care for the people of God…
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What’s Your Emergency? Noise?
Austin’s ABC affiliate, KVUE, has a top story on their website about a woman claiming she called 911 and was placed on hold. At face value, this is possibly newsworthy. No one wants to hear a recorded message saying that all operators are busy when someone is having a heart attack or in trying to…
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Back to the Stone Age
Today, I ended my BlackBerry data plan. With a kid on the way, a two-income household becoming a single-income household, and trying to move toward a more balanced online/offline life, I cut the cord. My job doesn’t require me to be able to respond to an e-mail within 10 minutes no matter when or where…
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Facebook’s Voting Problem
A brief post related to Facebook’s latest vote for governance. The vote would be binding if 30% of active users, defined as those who logged onto the website in the last 30 days, voted. In this case, 60 million people needed to vote. At the end of voting, it didn’t hit the 1-million mark. This…
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McDonald’s is unfriendly to people with allergies
My sister went to the McDonald’s location in Wal-Mart on Lawrence Rd in Wichita Falls yesterday. She ordered a hamburger for my niece, who is a toddler, and is very allergic to many, many things. In order for her to safely consume a hamburger, it must be plain with meat and bun only. Dry. Nothing…
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A great priest-per-Catholic ratio
On Saturday, it was made public that the Pope appointed Fr. Beda Umberto Paluzzi, OSB, previously the apostolic administrator of the territorial abbey of Montevergine, Italy as the ordinary abbot of that territorial abbey. In laymen’s terms, the monk was an interim director of the abbey and is now officially the fully-vested chief of the abbey. A territorial abbey…