Weekend 583.0

Posted on October 8, 2023 by Winston Smith

This is a sad postscript about Bermuda. (1) A quarter-century of economic drama (The Royal Gazette) The Front Street retail flagships disappeared over time, along with the traditional horse and Continue Reading →

Weekend 582.0

Posted on September 30, 2023 by Winston Smith

(1) We are all slaves to sin but freed by love of God (The Royal Gazette) (2) The Month of the Holy Rosary (The Westminster Cathedral Newsletter)

Weekend 581.0 (…beautiful but woefully unkempt)

Posted on September 24, 2023 by Winston Smith

(1) The End of the Beer Option? Thoughts on the Closure of Spencer Trappist Brewery (Building Catholic Culture) (2) The One, True, Imaginative Vision (The Imaginative Conservative) “When disordered, it Continue Reading →

Weekend 580.0

Posted on August 26, 2023 by Winston Smith

(1) Work and Monasticism (Imaginative Conservative) “We find in St. Benedict’s Rule something of a tension between toil and rest. This tension is actually fundamental to the whole monastic life, Continue Reading →

Weekend 579.0

Posted on August 19, 2023 by Winston Smith

(1) We Need Kids to Be Real Rebels (Catholic Thing)

Weekend 578.0 (Retro Gaming, Baseball, and Nostalgia)

Posted on August 4, 2023 by Winston Smith

I couldn’t get the Box Score and Stats Compiler for Microleague Baseball to work on my APPLE IIE emulator but was able to on a Commodore 64 emulator. Scrambling now Continue Reading →

Weekend 577.1

Posted on July 31, 2023 by Winston Smith

(1) Four good documentaries: Atari: Game OverSpecial When Lit: A Pinball DocumentaryThe Bug: Life and Times of the People’s Car30 Bikes: The Story of Homestead Bicycles (2) Finished my ATARI® Continue Reading →

Weekend 577.0 (README.TXT)

Posted on July 29, 2023 by Winston Smith

Blog maintenance this weekend as we get closer to the 20th Anniversary of Limestone Roof on August 21st. (1) On Museums and Windows (The Imaginative Conservative) “So a knowing eye Continue Reading →

Weekend 576.0

Posted on July 22, 2023 by Winston Smith

“One realizes oneself only one piece at a time.” — Marcel Proust, The Fugitive Palisades Park by the Counting Crows “The future sounds so crazyWe all heard that song beforeTomorrow’s Continue Reading →

Weekend 575.0

Posted on July 16, 2023 by Winston Smith

(1) More quotes from On Modernism’s Ruins: The Architecture of “Building Stories” and Lost Buildings by Daniel Worden: “For Samuelson, as for Ware, history is present through objects, and the Continue Reading →

Limestone Roof

Our history now descends from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust.

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