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2025 years ago, on this day, the Ave Maria rang out for the first time, the Blessed Virgin said “Fiat” to the will of God and the Son of God became Incarnate.
This is the 2025th Jubilee of this great Feast of the Incarnation, the day of the Annunciation that our God has pitched His tent among us. Go to Mass, say the Rosary because it's such an awesome day.
I received some clarifying comments from Max Büsser on the M.A.D. 2 and Eric Giroud's role in MB&F - I asked Max if I could post them here and he agreed - here's what Max had to say!
"The M.A.D.2 actually comes to life on your wrist as you can see the peripheric part of the rotor though the case – I attached a little wristroll which gives…
The secret of life from “He Leadeth Me.”
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It’s been six months since the Apple Watch Series 10 dropped, so I figured it’s due time for the official Shortcut review.
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My author newsletter, Pageturning, just hit 500 subscribers!!! Thank you!!
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a long rant about the shameless mongrels who have spent the whole week acting like the Signal story is no big deal.
Another of the restaurants I wrote about in my “Who Goes There?” column on Eater has closed. This one was a classic, a one of a kind. I obsessed over it often on my blog Lost City.
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First night in Xi’An, got in near closing time. Went to place down street and everyone was drunk inside. One guy was being carried out as I went in. No idea what to order, since no cell service, so I pointed.
Got pile of bean sprouts and peppers & some massive dish of diced chicken and somehow more peppers. I don’t think I’ve had a dish …
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I’m still revising my paranormal military thriller “Field Station Delta.” Got some terrific feedback from my writing critique group tonight. I'm going to get up early tomorrow morning and rework this scene!
The paradoxical nature of ignorance reveals itself in its unique ontological status - unlike knowledge, which can be traced to specific discoveries, ignorance manifests as both absence and presence, operating simultaneously as a void of understanding and an active force shaping perception. We cannot meaningfully ask when ignorance of gravity or quantum mechanics began, for ignorance represents not an acquired condition but mind's default state, requiring no explanation for its presence just as existence itself needs no origin story. This profound recognition suggests that genuine understanding requires not merely accumulating knowledge but transcending the very perceptual habits and conceptual frameworks that constitute ignorance itself - a process that illuminates both scientific investigation and contemplative inquiry by revealing how our unexamined assumptions actively shape what we take to be natural ways of seeing.
