Aldi’s Winking Owl cabernet drinks better than a three-dollar wine should. 🍷

Mitch Miller and the Gang. Not bad, actually.

I’m not a huge fan of “Mary, Did you Know,” but when my almost 3-year-old daughter is obsessed with it because she loves Mary, I’ll let it slide. Excited to see the Queen of Heaven finally begin to overshadow Disney “princesses” in my house.

It’s avro.schema.parse in Python 2 but avro.schema.Parse in Python 3! Why?!?!?!?

The GDP MicroPC looks really exciting to me. Small and affordable . — GPD MicroPC is a tiny $299 laptop aimed at IT Pros, coming in 2019 - Liliputing

Does Chocolately actually work for anyone? About 60% of the installs I do just fail. Not a Homebrew or Apt replacement so far as I can see.

Remember, remember your ember day letters!

“Believe” in who or what? That is the question.

But, it is pretty nice to have hardware that supports USB A devices without a dongle.

How in the world does a PC laptop lose 60% of its battery when powered off sitting in a laptop bag overnight? I can’t wait for my MacBook Pro to arrive!

Only in America. 🇺🇸

Tonight’s Christmas album. 🎺🎷🎼🇲🇽

So, what’s a good, quiet mechanical keyboard for <$40? I’m getting the Laptop Pro for home, but want something inexpensive for office days.

Deus, cui omne cor patet et omnis voluntas loquitur, et quem nullum latet secretum, purifica per infusionem Sancti Spiritus cogitationes cordis nostri, ut te perfecte diligere et digne laudare mereamur. Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum, Qui tecum vivit et regnat, in unitate ejusdem Spiritus Sancti, per omnia sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

I’m excited to preach on Malachi tomorrow at jail. Advent themes of God’s wrath and judgement come together with the realization that he’s adopting us as his daughters and sons.

You know what I haven’t done since Friday at 4 o’clock? Worked or been contacted by work. It truly doesn’t have to be crazy at work.

Though I’m not a fan of the name — I’d like to at least get to keep Advent as a Christian religious season — I’m going to give the Advent of Code a try this year. My solutions will be here on GitHub.

The Arnold family Christmas tree has arrived.

Python support in VS Code is really good. If you haven’t given it a try in a while, you really should. VS Code Python Update

After months and months of reading and work, I just turned in the final draft of my MDiv project. So happy to be done! — Seeking a Charitable Orthodoxy

It’s been two long, late nights, but I’ve got ~7,000 words engaging ecumenical Eucharist services from an Anglican perspective. ~300 words more of a conclusion will have to wait until tomorrow. So nice to see months of work almost done!

“My family never owned slaves.” — “Slavery was long before anyone alive was born.” • This might be true, but your grandma lived in an America where these brands and products were common place.

New shortcut for sharing URLs to Pinboard with multiple tags. Pin URL with Tags

May God bless you and your family as we close the year and approach the feast of Christ our King and his Advent. 🦃

I’m loving Hug for 95% of my µ-service needs, but that 5% not covered in the very light docs are moving me towards Flask. That automated, built-in documentation though…