Bodling

Retired librarian.
Retired Lutheran pastor.
Semi-retired Lutheran.
Appalachian Trail hiker.
Concordia graduate.

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2024-10-06 01:23:14

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@npub1gvl…8ag7 Oxford commas are mandatory.

2024-08-14 02:03:41

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@npub13vv…0sze Spread out over 12 hours that doesn't look real busy. Here in my hometown, though, 1/3 of them would be in line the first hour, one third over lunch, and the other third would squeeze in during the last half hour.

2024-08-09 14:30:24

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 The Wikipedia bio of Mr Crow doesn't mention Crow having ANY military himself.

2024-08-06 22:46:02

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@npub1tal…f0uu I'm a member of a congregation in one of the more conservative ones

2024-08-06 18:40:54

Tim #Walz is a Lutheran! He would be the first (or 2nd ... read the article) Lutheran to reach that elected height in the country's history. OTOH, he is from the #ELCA not the #LCMS so there's that; but the majority of the #MissouriSynod tends to not vote for Democrats anyway.
#Lutherans #Lutheranism #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.ncronline.org/news/five-faith-facts-about-harris-pick-tim-walz-minnesota-lutheran-dad

2024-07-21 20:05:47

Just, please, someone assure me that Vice President Harris never ran her own email server!
#Harris2024

2024-07-18 17:51:47

"And the books that came into the house, some of them secretly --well, Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with book all over his face and hands." --- John Steinbeck, "East of Eden" ch. 23, sec. 1.
#reading #books #bookstodon #Steinbeck

2024-07-13 23:07:09

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@npub1c5c…644a Bugs for protein; jelly beans for carbs; now work out something for fats and you've got a well-rounded meal

2024-05-09 01:41:36

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@npub1md8…lhh6 then to "campus Protestant" ?

2024-05-07 14:03:30

In very broad terms, am I right that Ms Daniels's veracity and reliability as a witness isn't that huge a deal because the trial isn't about whether or not they had sex? The trial is about whether the defendant interfered with an election by falsifying business records.
#TrumpTrial

2024-05-04 12:52:59

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@npub1k4q…3lsq Take a moment to consider the poor souls out there who are frantically trying to look this up online somewhere to try and figure out what we're on about

2024-04-30 12:34:15

We say
last year,
last month,
last week, and
last night.
But we say yesterday.
We don't say
last day.
What's up with that?
(and, yes, we DO say yesteryear,
but that means 'a long time ago'
not 'the year before the current one.')

2024-04-28 11:34:59

"In fact, God seems silent, but he reveals himself and speaks to us through the marvels of creation. It is enough to pay attention like a child to the splendors of nature. For nature speaks to us about God.”
Sarah, Robert Cardinal with Nicolas Diat. The Power of Silence Against the Dictatorship of Noise. Translated by Michael J. Miller. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2017, p. 197
#silence #nature

2024-04-25 21:29:27

Check the door bolts!
https://apnews.com/article/boeing-space-capsule-starliner-astronauts-nasa-4742d2759c51d63c0d2ec9cbf93fce25

2024-04-10 22:18:14

"Two railway workers in California were fired by Caltrain after the company realized they had quietly converted unused offices into secret apartments to avoid the area's brutal commutes."
Thing that gets me is that they were working for a local mass transit company. One that carries commuters. And they still thought it brutal.
https://boingboing.net/2024/04/10/railway-workers-built-secret-apartments-in-train-stations.html
#Commute #Caltrain #MassTransit

2024-04-05 19:07:03

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@npub17ha…t8va Any idea whether some of the edits were due to War Dept censors?

2024-03-29 14:18:42

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@npub1xpc…3t05 Thought the same about the $25 million. More than I've ever had, but didn't sound like all that much to rate a news story.

2024-03-23 18:02:47

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@npub1afz…wdvg MS user engagement folks: See, Boss? They keep staring and staring at the synergized icons! I tell you, they love 'em!!!

2024-03-20 20:21:43

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@npub17ha…t8va I wonder how the system goes about replacing such a judge.
Does the whole trial have to play out and then get appealed because of incompetent fantasy judging (or whatever the technical term is)? Or does that invoke a double jeopardy?
A replacement judge would, of course, add delay upon delay while they get going. And does the new judge get to reconsider the replaced judge's decisions on motions?

2024-03-13 01:18:31

"Then, while doing field work in Peru, the team got lucky: They saw numerous cicadas in a tree, peeing."
Important research being done at #GeorgiaTech !
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240311173028.htm
#Cicadas #FluidDynamics #jets

2024-03-08 21:42:55

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@npub13vv…0sze Am I alone in wondering what the plan for the logging truck was? Mine might be to try to get a few logs off the truck, hoping a lighter payload would help. But it's not like that's a front wheel vehicle. I'm thinking they got nowhere without a tow.

2024-03-02 14:30:02

She is the queen of all she surveys.
#caturday #KatzenTag #CatsOfMastodon
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2024-02-24 11:41:05

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@npub1tal…f0uu I would suppose I'm paying something to keep the freezer running, so yes.

2024-02-24 02:00:35

So, in Alabama, can you list your embryos on your income tax form and get dependent deductions for them?

2024-02-21 21:34:46

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@npub1ulm…hweg Is there some reason that Figure 1 only has 2 layers instead of the canonical 3?

2024-02-17 16:04:11

Anyone want to offer a guess on whether someone -- oh, say, Don Trump and gang -- could just move the NY-based companies to FL or TX on paper and run them from there?
If the companies were headquartered out of state could they get around yesterday's restriction?
If an oligarch buddy loans him the cash to pay his debts and takes the companies as collateral, are DJT et al. able to manage or operate them?

2024-02-12 15:46:46

So ... the Super Bowl. Smash bang ending. I didn't see it. Or any of the game.
But not for trying. I just don't want to spend money on streaming subscriptions I won't use for anything else. Or to spend time signing up for "free" trial subscriptions that I have to remember to cancel afterwards.
I feel like I'm old enough to remember when I could easily watch it for free on my laptop.
Is anyone re-broadcasting it for free and without me signing up for unwanted services?
Or should I just retreat back into my hermitage to sit in silence again?
#SuperBowl

2024-02-08 23:47:10

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@npub1te7…3dzs I guess my practice is just to correct it when I see it. Sometimes that happens before I press the "send" button, which is nice.
Other times it's not until someone responds and I see my typo, which I wince at.
But I also know that what I'm writing here is not important and that I have no reputation to manage or protect, so I try to go easy on myself, which is hard.

2024-02-08 21:14:09

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@npub1te7…3dzs wouldn't improve it for me. Too many different languages, abbreviations, dialects, and bits of oddments. I feel like I'd always be uncorrecting the spell check.

2024-01-28 13:09:31

I'm old enough to remember when Evernote was the hottest note app out there, free on several devices at a time, and not restricted to 50 notes.
I'm glad I'm on Obsidian now, where my notes live on my own hard drive or the cloud storage of my own choice.
#Obsidian vs #Evernote no contest
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2024-01-27 18:56:30

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@npub1lwu…6w4j The chatbot prose that I've read sounds to me like a college freshman who didn't do the readings and wasn't paying attention during the lectures but is now trying to get full credit on the essay portion of the examination by throwing in anything that might be related but in no particular order.

2024-01-26 20:04:59

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@npub1yk6…4zz4 Kind of coveting those cabinets, though. And how are the glass fronts not already totally shattered?

2024-01-22 21:54:31

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@npub13vv…0sze That was a weekend; you probably had nothing else to do, right??

2024-01-22 18:13:10

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@npub13vv…0sze "a process best described as tortuous, despite everyone involved being lovely" pretty well describes most ALA meetings and decisions, as best I can recall

2024-01-08 01:07:45

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@npub178r…qekt Reminded of the Civil War era forts that once encircled Washington DC - the remaining ones now turned into parks or historic attractions... I'm wondering whether any of these Cold War era sites will ever get that treatment.

2023-12-30 18:25:51

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@npub1sac…apc0 Possibly because Emerson was right when he wrote that "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...."

2023-10-26 23:53:46

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@npub1thl…mhaw I use Insight Timer (on Android) but don't connect it with anything so it may not suit your needs.

2023-08-23 13:29:38

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@npub1ulm…hweg As an inveterate proofreader, who is most assuredly not in the legal profession, this sort of thing makes me crazy. But it also makes me wonder whether these sorts of errors matter.
I mean, this and stuff like this could end up being cause for throwing out or challenging the result later on, I guess. But that's only if someone notices and raises the issue. When complicated cases with lots of fillings create reams of documents, do they ever all get read with a fine tooth comb?

2023-08-16 20:34:41

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@npub178h…hyhr that whole list is "way out," as we used to say

2023-08-15 21:38:38

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@npub189n…satx If I take a couple long naps in there, does that make the weekend come along quicker?

2023-08-06 17:35:34

"One who spares words is knowledgeable; one who is cool in spirit has understanding." Proverbs 27:27
Be cool, everybody

2023-08-05 19:06:37

Martin Luther out of context: "It must be regarded as a pure work and a pure heart when a servant in the household does a dirty and repulsive job, like hauling manure or washing and cleaning children."
(American edition, volume 21, page 32-33)
#MartinLuther #quote

2023-08-02 22:59:30

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@npub1ulm…hweg Is there a competing patent for a "duck shaped pillow"?

2023-07-11 23:47:36

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@npub1c5c…644a And I had no idea until right now that I could get it at the Tractor Supply store. Glad you mentioned that.

2023-07-11 20:40:31

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@npub1c5c…644a Permethrin treated my hiking clothes thru the Insect Shield company in North Carolina (sadly, probably at higher cost than doing it myself!!). And didn't find a single tick on my body during months of hiking. A year later the treatment seems to be keeping off the ticks off of me while I'm out in the meadow or cutting grass. Good stuff.
#permethrin #InsectShield #hiking #backpacking

2023-07-07 15:56:32

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@npub1ulm…hweg I'm neither an entomologist nor a patent lawyer (nor do I play one on TV), but I do think this case is crying for a Gary Larson "Far Side" cartoon. There's just got to be one that's relevant!

2023-07-01 15:43:28

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 Oldman.
Unless it was Oldeman.
Which would probably get changed to Old Demon.
Which would raise eyebrows in the Church.

2023-06-19 11:36:55

There's something to be said for Augsburg Confession XIV and its "rite vocatus" / "ordentlichen Beruf" / "proper call."
I've just read and heard some really different teachings coming from people who aren't. (Not that properly called preachers and teachers don't also go wacky!)

2023-06-18 17:08:17

I played my Wendish card for the first time a week or so ago.
On a survey for the Census Bureau one of the demographic questions asked about family background. It included checking as many options as applied. German? Check! English? Check! Fill in the blank for "other"? That's where I typed in "Wendish".
I'll let them figure it out.
#Wends #Sorbs

2023-06-17 22:44:16

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@npub1kja…e5gq Was actually thinking this week about what would happen if I could wave a wand and make plastics vanish. Ended up with: mess in medicine cabinet, all the containers plastic; few clothes and no camping gear (nylon, rayon, synthetics all plastic); car is trash, along with phone, computer, fridge all containing plastic parts. Kids toys, Lego, some dishes and food containers gone, too.
This part of the world will have a steep learning curve remembering how to cope without plastics.