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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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the life you may save
I read Paul Elie’s The Life You May Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage almost a year ago and found it a very interesting book. That time around, I sped through the book as it just captured my attention. Since I’ve set it aside for almost a year and I’ve been pestering Vanessa,…
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bapchule bound 2005: virtues
The Bapchule Bound mission experience, unlike the University Catholic Center’s Mission Trip to Arteaga, Mexico, focuses virtually all efforts onto pastoral work with the community. The construction aspect of this trip used only three staff full-time with the occasional person helping out at night. Upon much thought and prayer, the concept of virtues and their…
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dbd:mysql 3.0000 errors
Hostgator, my hosting solution uses cPanel to manage the site and download new fixes and whatnot. Recently, a perl module, DBD:mysql released a new version (3.000). Usually, I would have never noticed this except something about it causes my weblog’s content management system to freak out, resulting in a lovely 500 error. What does that…
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bapchule bound 2005: getting to bapchule
The Friday before the mission week rolled around. During the day, nothing exciting too place. I caught up on a couple of e-mails, sent some postal mail. Really, there was nothing exciting to mention. Around 5 p.m., Vanessa and Teeney, a student from Texas A&M who had previously served at St. Peter’s, arrived from The…
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idea for the easter vigil
I first heard this idea from the Open Book blog mentioning a similar practice held at St. Meinrad’s Archabbey. I tweaked it a bit and present it below. I’ll note that it is not practical for virtually all parish settings and would be best used in a communal-life setting. The Vigil begins in the normal…
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PGP Key
I am slowly making the switch from Microsoft Outlook to various open-source applications. As part of my migration from Outlook to Thunderbird for e-mail, I have decided to give myself the option of secure e-mail. My public pgp key can be found online. You can use this key to verify that e-mails sent by me…