“Freedom ain’t free” seems mostly to be a term used at Thanksgiving to mean “freedom (the current circumstances in ‘merica) has costs (but they’re worth it so shut up). An argument-ender with the same catchiness and philosophical depth as “soap-on-a-rope” and “why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?”. It’s irritating because it’s…
First – I don’t do enough python stuff to know all the tooling so every time I have to set up python environments on a new system I spend hours trying to get it working. I think the issue this time was creating a venv before debian’s ‘python-full’ package was installed. Second – rabbit trails:…
I’ve had a few conversations about beauty and lack of beauty in my surroundings in the past few days. Talking about an art museum, various churches, and an old historic house. In the conversation about art I couldn’t quite define the distinction I wanted to make. I had just started reading this essay and gotten…