How much heresy can one man hold? Apparently, quite a bit! I saw this on Reddit over the weekend — the TheoCompass quiz, which is 60-odd questions about Christian belief, and from those it analyzes one’s beliefs and what sort of church they should attend. I, being of a puckish nature, took the quiz. IContinue reading “Believe in Six Heresies Before Breakfast”
Monthly Archives: September 2025
Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing
We take you to breaking news, live footage of the inside of my head… While none of these are specifically labeled as GNDN pipes, these are absolutely GNDN pipes. GNDN was a Star Trek: The Next Generation acronym/in-joke, GNDN meaning “Goes Nowhere Does Nothing.” And it’s entirely appropriate for today, as it was on thisContinue reading “Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing”
And Now, EndeavourOS
It took a little elbow grease to get the WMX window manager working on EndeavourOS, but after the experimentation to make the window frames dark instead of light it wasn’t anything difficult at all. And since my EndeavourOS setup runs the i3 window manager, I had rofi already installed, so I set up a launcherContinue reading “And Now, EndeavourOS”
Desktop Minimalism at Its Finest
I don’t know when I discovered the WMX window manager. Probably about the time I discovered CTWM, when I was exploring the weird, old avenues that Linux had once traveled down. I was struck immediately by how different it looked. Instead of the title at the top of the window, it runs down the side!Continue reading “Desktop Minimalism at Its Finest”
Elbow’s 2025 North American Tour
Elbow is playing Washington, DC tomorrow night. I bought my ticket the day they went on sale. The last time I saw Elbow was… 2017? After the release of Little Fictions? That feels right. Yes, November 4th. It rained in Washington that evening, and I stood outside in the rain outside the 9:30 Club. LittleContinue reading “Elbow’s 2025 North American Tour”
Fifty Years of the Cube
I was at Ollie’s Bargain Outlet earlier this week, where they were setting up the Christmas toys section. I poked my head into the section, not wanting to get in the way, and they had Spin Master’s 50th-anniversary edition of the Rubik’s Cube for five dollars. The anniversary cube featured the original Rubik’s Cube logoContinue reading “Fifty Years of the Cube”
The Wistful Adventure
A fun little piece of sponsored content dropped into my Facebook feed earlier this week — Dark Horse Comics is making figures based on the Rankin-Bass animated Hobbit of the 1970s. The Hobbit I grew up with. The Hobbit whose songs I know — “The Greatest Adventure,” “That’s What Bilbo Baggins Hates.” Mock-ups of DarkContinue reading “The Wistful Adventure”
Coverflow!
Things I learned today. The Coverflow alt-tab behavior in Linux Mint even works when you’re playing a Windows game through WINE. I realize that is absolutely cryptic as mud, but I thought it was cool. By “alt-tab,” I mean using Alt-Tab on the keyboard to switch between open applications on your computer. I used toContinue reading “Coverflow!”
Installing LMDE7
The Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 beta, based on Debian 13 Trixie, was released last week. I had been planning to do a clean install, replacing my LMDE6 install and reinstalling the apps I needed, for a lot of reasons — putting the install on my system’s NVMe, LMDE6 was originally installed on an IntelContinue reading “Installing LMDE7”
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
This came up in my Facebook memories today from 2017, a Google Doodle about Fred Rogers taking the Trolley for a ride through the Land of Make Believe. It’s cute and worth sharing. Daniel Tiger made an appearance at a Harrisburg Senators game in 2019, and I made a point of getting in line toContinue reading “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”