Curious

Nerd Heaven: An epic, bonkers, eschatological, sci‑fi lucid dream

[flying, death, heaven, and spaceships!]

Dec 17, 2025 • SDG

Notes on A.I. and the end of the world

[no one knows what’s coming, and no one can stop it]

Dec 10, 2025 • SDG

‘Dude, that’s Dream Wikipedia!’ Adventures in dream epistemology

[Consider the Wendigo!]

Nov 1, 2025 • SDG

Socrates, Jesus, and who else?

[notes on the historical Jesus and C.S. Lewis’s ‘Fernseed and Elephants’]

Oct 17, 2025 • SDG

Password insanity: my personal approach revealed

[how I generate and remember unique passwords for every system I log into]

Oct 15, 2025 • SDG

Neither awake nor dreaming: Odd stirrings of the nodding brain

[Dadaist “sentences” from the twilight zone of consciousness]

Sep 25, 2025 • SDG

A U.S. Flag Code conundrum?

[Is this U.S. flag displayed correctly or incorrectly?]

Aug 19, 2025 • SDG

Time-machine history tourism: Theological reflections

[What would YOU choose to witness?]

Aug 7, 2025 • SDG

The Sleeping Beauty problem

[LONGREAD: in which a non-math deacon tries to be smart about math, or possibly English?]

Jun 12, 2025 • SDG

Sushi and transcendence Q&A!

[a theologically suggestive introduction to my favorite food, with more to come]

Mar 30, 2025 • SDG

Measles: Five fast facts

Yesterday the US measles outbreak claimed its second US victim this year, an unvaccinated adult in New Mexico.

Mar 7, 2025 • SDG

Plant and animal sex, what Aquinas and Aristotle didn’t know—and how it still affects our language

[yes, flowers DO produce eggs…plus a Marian coda!]

Feb 5, 2025 • SDG

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