Random Musings by Kraft
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a visit to st. mary
On Tuesday, a friend and I made a visit to St. Mary’s Seminary. Associated with the University of St. Thomas, St. Mary’s provides the major seminary experience for students from most of the dioceses of Texas. It was a beautiful place. Our first stop, since we were uninvited visitors, was the chapel. Setup in choral…
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i rode on a ferry today
I’m in the Galveston area for a day or two and found myself with some time to kill. SH 87 includes a TxDOT-operated ferry leaving Galveston Island. Since I’ve never been on a ferry, I took the chance to do something new. I enjoyed it quite a bit and am dubbing the event “my spring…
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broken lent
Today is Monday of the Second Week of Lent. Today is the 13th day of Lent 2006. For 13 days, we have fasted, sacrificed, prayed more, and done more good works than we had 14 days ago. We come up with these great ideas on what we’re able to do. I’m going to give up…
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tokens and the creation of writing
The use of tokens in the early Mespoptamian region as a precussor to the written symbol is a plausible and interesting idea. It makes the transition from speech to writing easier to find. For example, the early cave paintings found in France told us that our prehistorical brothers and sisters attempted to record events in…
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turing machine
It is funny to think how much we take Turing and his work for granted today. My roommate is an electrical engineer and I’ve tinkered in programming since 1990 (I still miss BASIC). For me, this concept is a given. A computer using a simple binary system for everything. It is either X or O,…
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head’s up: the pope drops a title
It has been reported that Pope Benedict XVI has dropped the title “Patriarch of the West” from his list of official titles. I’m still reading up more on this to understand the decision but in short, it looks like he’s trying to smooth things over with the Orthodox and Eastern Rites. The use of “Patriarch”…