Posted in books, faith, miscellany, nature on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Stuart Kauffman writes about the shortcomings and ultimate failure of reductionism in science.
If no natural law suffices to describe the evolution of the biosphere, of technological evolution, of human history, what replaces it? In its place is a wondrous radical creativity without a supernatural Creator. Look out your window at the life teeming about you. [...]
Posted in family, nature on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Today, our guests returned home. The house is a little quieter, and a little emptier, and we are a little sad. But we had a good time and are all looking forward to another gathering of cousins soon. It’s supposed to rain here all weekend, which actually works out fine for me: I need to [...]
Posted in aquarium, family, nature on January 28, 2008 | No Comments »
The caving trip was a lot of fun, though I picked up quite a few things that should serve us well next year, namely: bring an air mattress or two. The new foam pads were OK, but not great. I shudder to think of how bad it could have been without them. We camped out [...]
Posted in aquarium, brewing, family, nature on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Last night I started a batch of mead. I didn’t take pictures because, frankly, there wasn’t a whole lot to see. One pot of steaming honey/water mixture (the must), a few odds and ends disinfecting in the sink and, finally, a sealed bucket with a little water airlock thingie on top. Now we wait. The [...]
Posted in nature, nerd on January 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The big gift from my parents to the half-dozen Hobnottle children was a complete aquarium kit - tank, stand, heater, filter, hood and a few odd vials of water treatment chemicals, food samples and the like. On the heels of Epiphany (in fact, on Epiphany) we played a little Tetris with our living room floorplan [...]
Posted in miscellany, nature on November 5, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Hwæt! Our weekend was full. A dear friend of my wife’s came to visit us over the weekend. Her eldest and ours were boon companions back in Atlanta, so the boys spend most of the weekend tearing around the house and yard while the rest of us just sort of steered clear. They left [...]
Posted in nature on October 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Our old house was in a semi-wooded area. The yard itself had only a few trees, but we backed up to a pretty wooded area and were blessed with all manner of wildlife in our suburban environs. Birds, for the most part, but also the occasional snake and the usual assortment of small mammals. Voles, [...]
Posted in bike, family, food, nature, plants on October 8, 2007 | No Comments »
As dyed in blood the streaming vines appear,
While long and low the wind about them grieves:
The heart of Autumn must have broken here,
And poured its treasure out upon the leaves.
“Woodbines in October,” by Charlotte Fiske Bates (via Bartleby)
Busy weekend.
Friday night: vegetarian pizzas with homemade dough. Good stuff. Followed it up with The Protector, which was [...]
Posted in books, miscellany, nature on October 3, 2007 | No Comments »
When on the ground red apples lie
In piles like jewels shining,
And redder still on old stone walls
Are leaves of woodbine twining;
When all the lovely wayside things
Their white-winged seeds are sowing,
And in the fields, still green and fair,
Late aftermaths are growing;
When springs run low, and on the brooks,
In idle golden freighting,
Bright leaves sink noiseless in the [...]
Posted in books, family, miscellany, nature on October 1, 2007 | No Comments »
I want a hero: an uncommon want,
When every year and month sends forth a new one,
Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,
The age discovers he is not the true one…
- Byron, Don Juan, ll. 1-4
Someday we must absolutely make a literary pilgrimage to England. I was there on business awhile back but only had [...]
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