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by cbfrench 23d ago
I grew up in East TN, and this feels like the death of Queen Elizabeth, Mother Teresa, and your favorite fun aunt all rolled up into one. Except no one had a bad word to say about Dolly. She was beloved around the world, but she was an inst
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by cbfrench 26d ago
Ham radio websites might be my favorite genre of website. Their design is always a throwback to the internet of my youth, and they almost always have tons of interesting technical content.
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by cbfrench 1mo ago
Once I got to 37% total countries identified (seen?), it basically stopped showing me new countries. I went through five or so rounds without seeing anything that I hadn’t seen before. Which was gratifying, since I was getting 20/20 ev
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by cbfrench 1mo ago
I always love when a literary piece ends up in my feed from HN because I can always guess the one of three users who posted it (usually one of lermontov, apollinaire, or samclemens—there may be a couple of others). I just want to say that t
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by cbfrench 3mo ago
I got mine a month ago, and I’ve read 13 books on it so far. Its chief advantage is its size: the ability to carry it with me all the time and to pull it out whenever I have a free moment is great. (And also, although I have no evidence to
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by cbfrench 3mo ago
I did, and then I flashed Crossink, and I’m currently using vCodex at the moment, just because I wanted to check out the various options. I’m not sure if I’ll stick with vCodex, since I don’t really care that much about all of the stats, an
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by cbfrench 3mo ago
That is very true, and certainly I’m in agreement that fast, digital reading isn’t necessarily desirable as a mode. Then again, my academic background is in English lit, and I’m a priest, so my professional reading has generally been slow a
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by cbfrench 3mo ago
I’m a big proponent of physical books: I have several thousand in my home. But last week, I finally got my first e-reader, the Xteink X4, which I got because it was small and cheap. In ten days, I’ve read J.-K. Huysmans’s Durtal tetralogy,
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by cbfrench 5mo ago
I may be one of the few HN users for whom this is an extremely useful resource. I’m an Anglican priest, so I’m often scanning and pasting bits and pieces of chant into our bulletins. This will, I hope, allow me to create much cleaner lookin
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by cbfrench 7mo ago
Apart from being one of the finest poets in the modern era, Housman was also an excellent textual critic, and he once gave the most amusing and acerbic paper on textual criticism you’ll ever read: https://wsproject.org/metho
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by cbfrench 8mo ago
Anyone know the little padfolio case that’s featured here? I’d like a better carry solution for my pens and notebooks, and that one looks about perfect for the job.
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by cbfrench 8mo ago
The tech ban was not just about trying to create better individual learning outcomes or whatever; it was also a matter of respect to one’s colleagues in the class. I was teaching a discussion section of a larger class, so there was a minima
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by cbfrench 8mo ago
Over a decade ago now, I was teaching college English as a grad student, and my colleagues and I were always trying to come up with ways to keep kids from texting and/or being online in class. My strategy was to print out copies of an
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by cbfrench 1y ago
My college (Sewanee: The University of the South) is one of the few places in the US with a change ringing tower. It definitely fit the Anglophilic vibe of the place. It was always lovely to hear. Apparently, I now live in one of the other
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by cbfrench 1y ago
This is true. I’m sure most dispensationalists consider themselves “literalists” even though they require charts upon charts to demonstrate how their “literalism” isn’t just creative interpretation. And besides, “literalism” is just a moder
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by cbfrench 1y ago
They’re dispensationalists, though. Actual biblical literalists would probably have a hard time reconciling St. Paul with this idea that the modern nation-state of Israel has anything at all to do with the Israel of either the Old or New Te
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by cbfrench 1y ago
I highly doubt the judge was tracking down citations or reading those cited cases herself to verify what was in them. They have law clerks for that. It doesn’t make it any less an egregious waste of the court’s time and resources, but I wou
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by cbfrench 1y ago
“Alternative Pharmaceuticals Purveyor”
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by cbfrench 2y ago
Probably meant evanesce , which has the same sense as evaporate and could be easily confused with effervesce.
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by cbfrench 2y ago
None of the models ingests that data, mostly because there is no way to ensure that personal weather stations are sited correctly. So, for instance, an anemometer has to be around 30’ above ground with no obstructions to generate usable rea
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by cbfrench 2y ago
>15. Defend minimalism. “No.”
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by cbfrench 2y ago
Here am I, a grown-ass man, softly giggling to myself over seeing 5318008 on the list. It’s fifth grade all over again.
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by cbfrench 2y ago
I primarily read theology, and lots of early-to-mid-20th century Anglican theology. So, many of the books I read are out of print—and thus only available used. I’ve found that reading in a niche area tends to put some interesting copies in
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by cbfrench 2y ago
Sabine Baring-Gould was a fascinating man: https://theweek.com/articles/763465/last-man-who-knew-everyt... I picked up a complete set of his Lives of the Saints that was being discarded from a seminary library a
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by cbfrench 2y ago
When I was in high school, my English classes focused quite a bit on performing that sort of analysis. Then I majored in English at a college whose department was still very much aligned with the New Critical “close reading” methodology. Th
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by cbfrench 2y ago
It’s pretty remarkable to think in the 400k+ MLB games that have been played in 100+ years, this is the first time this has ever happened. To quote the line: “How can you not be romantic about baseball?”
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by cbfrench 2y ago
Honestly, it’s probably a little of both. We’re all embedded in various communicative matrices, all of which have conventions to which we generally adhere because it’s how we were taught, it’s understandable by others (at least other guild
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by cbfrench 2y ago
Now comes cbfrench and respectfully submits the following comment. So they’ve discovered literary form and genre. Remarkable. To be less snarky, my wife is a lawyer, while I am an Anglican priest (cue the jokes). Both of us are in fields wh
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by cbfrench 2y ago
IANAL, so spitballing here, but it seems like this might be false imprisonment, given the use of handcuffs to restrain the student. It would be hard to argue this was a reasonable means of maintaining order when the student was not actively
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by cbfrench 2y ago
“There's a long drive... way back at center field... way back, back, it is a... Oh my! Caught by Mays!” https://youtu.be/7bLt2xKaNH0?si=I1rvcp67qk2pV5yN

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