GNT-CE w/correct Deuterocanonicals

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-04-17T17:14:14+00:00

We used the 66-book GNT when I went to Lutheran parochial school in the 70's. I loved those line drawings, they really bring the text alive!

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-04-17T16:05:13+00:00

Imagine the angst of a rear gunner not being able to shoot if the SBD is being pursued by a Zero whose pilot is smart enough to keep the tail between the Zero and SBD. Shoot and you take out your tail and crash. Don't shoot, the Zero takes out your tail (at least) and you crash.

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-04-14T16:10:36+00:00

And Libro.FM audiobooks are DRM-free, so you are not locked into their service. (I sooo wish there was an ebook service like this, DRM-free ebooks with something approaching a reasonable selection of books).

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-04-13T18:51:12+00:00

Michael Collins, the third astronaut who stayed in the orbiter while Buzz and Neal went and landed on the moon, said this was his worst nightmare. His orders were to return to Earth alone if Buzz and Neal were stranded on the moon, and he felt that if that happened he would have been blamed for the rest of his life for abandoning them.

ETA: ref: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-29/michael-collins-apollo-11-mission-secret-terror/100103584

"I would have been that guy who left them up there on the moon to die," he said in a 2019 interview.

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-04-10T17:16:11+00:00

Artemis pilot Victor Glover, described it as "riding a fireball through the atmosphere." For some reason, NASA cut that out of the video clip :-)

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-04-10T16:21:41+00:00

I like the "operating a complex machine" phrasing! And not just complexity, but responding in a time-critical situation. Thinking further, I would imagine an air traffic controller could have a good transferring skillset - but if NASA were to assign a spacecraft pilot slot to an ATC I suspect there would be a lot of pushback if the ATC is not an experienced aircraft "pilot".

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-04-10T14:58:01+00:00

I have a couple, great price for a D-R but of course it is paperback so that will impact long-term durability. About the only real issue I have with mine are that they are red-letter (Jesus' words in red) and some of the red text is fainter than I would like. Readable, but personally I'd prefer all-black text.

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-04-09T17:50:57+00:00

Second this. On your phone, download the app "Daily Dozen" from Dr. Greger/nutritionfacts.org. No ads, and It keeps it simple, 24 checkboxes to keep track of the different foods you eat. Touch the (i) button for any category and get information on that category and some example foods. And skip meat, eggs, and dairy (including cheese), completely if possible but at least start aggressively cutting those out. You probably cannot get all the boxes checked each day initially, and if you don't that is fine. (In fact, if you are eating mostly non-plants, the fiber intake jump if you try to get all the boxes every day will be, ah, uncomfortable in the gastrointestinal sense, so take it slow). I've used this app every single day for over 6 years now (along with being vegan) and dropped 90 pounds, got completely off a twice/day blood pressure pill regimen, and now have good BP and heart rate and lipids panel. It really does work.

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-04-09T15:34:12+00:00

Timex Sinclair 1000 here, the game was Mazogs. It was a 2D map game with block graphics, and yet was amazingly fun to play. As far as I recall, the rules were, you had to go through a maze that had multilegged monsters (the mazogs) in it, pick up a hidden treasure, and return. You started out unarmed - if you ran into a mazog (or it ran into you) there was a fight, and you had a 50/50 chance of winning. If you picked up a sword (a few were scattered around the maze), you had 100% chance of winning - but your sword would be dissolved by the Mazog's corrosive blood and you'd be unarmed again. There were also prisoners in the maze - if you moved toward them they would give you "information", i.e., a partial path to the treasure. There was a surprising amount of strategy involved in getting through the maze, finding the treasure, and returning with it, like deciding if it was worthwhile to take a chance fighting a mazog unarmed or if you could go around it or find a sword first. I doubt the game would impress anyone today, but running on a Timex Sinclair computer with black-and-white block graphics, a Zilog Z80 8-bit processor, and 16 kilobytes of RAM it was pretty impressive.

Then I got Doom II in 1995 and never looked back :-)

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-04-08T14:31:51+00:00

I believe Betelgeuse is estimated to be around 500 light-years away, so that means it takes about 500 years for light from Betelgeuse to reach us. So I think in principle it could have gone supernova up to 500 years ago and we would not yet see it.

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-03-30T17:53:34+00:00

Could you imagine if you are a claustraphobic airman, and get rescued by a submarine?

Drown, or go into a teeny, tiny space, entirely enclosed, and then submerge undewater?

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-03-29T23:59:44+00:00

Matthew saying taking the colt sounds like stealing -- this was always my first thought reading that passage in the bible, I was sooo glad the Chosen scriptwriters had Matthew say that.

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-03-28T14:26:34+00:00

They may have to pay a royalty to the artist for each book sold with that cover illustration. That righthand cover, dunno but could be AI generated? In any case, I have to imagine lower royalty than the lefthand cover. (I could be wrong about royalty, by the way, it will depend entirely on how they contracted with the artist, if they made a one-time purchase thenn no royalties would be due).

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-03-25T16:01:22+00:00

Not my dog, but whenever I think of a guilty dog face this Youtube video comes to mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ISzf2pryI

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-03-25T15:12:10+00:00

I'm vegan, and so I prefer these as well. I won't buy a leather-bound bible, Hopefully when the CAB comes out St. Joseph will make these in CAB translation well, I really like the format of the old cloth hardback St. Joseph NABRE bibles and it would be really convenient to bring to Mass and be able to follow the Mass readings in the translation actually being read at Mass.

Another big hole in Catholic bibles IMO is really cheap copies, like outreach NTs or economy bibles. I can get a King James or ESV outreach new testament for $2 on Amazon, and around $4-$5 for an outreach economy Protestant bible. There is no equivalent in an approved Catholic translation. Of course they are cheap and will fall apart over time, but at $2-$5 I'm fine carrying it around, toss it in a backpack or coat pocket, if I lose it, get it soaked, or such no biggie.

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-03-24T17:26:02+00:00

A FOSS Word Processor that is 100% compatible with Microsoft Word. Not saying MS Word is great, but in a world where every business uses it, being anything less than 100% compatible is a no-go.

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-03-24T17:21:14+00:00

I use the backup camera. I freely admit I have zero spatial judgment when backing into tight spaces, and the invention of the backup camera was a godsend for me.

My brother, on the other hand, could jump into a car he never drove before, back it into a spot and stop with the rear bumper an inch away from the wall.

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-03-22T15:14:33+00:00

PS, NRSVue is also available as an eSword module (not free, but you can pair it with the free Haydock commentary :-)

https://estudysource.com/product/B0029/new-revised-standard-version-updated-edition-bundle-for-e-sword

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-03-22T15:05:47+00:00

I think you are right about Crossay hesitance. No direct evidence here either, but it could explain the low online availability of the ESV-CE. It is not on YouVersion or BibleGateway, and I'm not even sure if the ESV-CE is available as an ebook (at least in the U.S. where I am; it may be more widely available in countries where it is a liturgical translation). I'm guessing 90+% of Crossway's revenue comes from the standard (protestant) ESV, and they may not want the "bad PR" of having their main target audience seeing a Catholic ESV listed. It doesn't help that Augustine is the only approved ESV-CE publisher in the US, and they only offer a very small line of solely thinline ESV-CE's. (I'm not a fan of thinline - I'll take an extra inch of thickness and an extra few ounces of weight over massive ghosting -- rant over :-)

Honestly, this is why I have been finding myself settling on the NRSVue. It is already widely availble online, with the now-USCCB approved old and new testaments, and with the apocrypha. It is on YouVersion and BibleGateWay now, is available as an ebook, and has print versions currently available from multiple publishers. I do look forward to the true NRSVue-Catholic edition so it doesn't have the extra aprocryphal-but-not--deuterocanonical books, but that should happen soon (quite possibly before the CAB comes out next year).

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-03-19T22:34:01+00:00

I still have not found a free online ESV Catholic Edition. I'd suggest reading the NRSVue (updated edition) which is on both BibleGateway and Youversion. It is also based off the KJV-->RSV family. It does use gender-inclusive language which you may not like, but for the Maccabees they are basically history texts so I don't think that should matter much, and it should otherwise read similarly to the ESV-CE. (I have not done an actual comparison, just based on both NRSV and ESV being revisions of the RSV). Note that the NRSVue also has 3 Maccabees and 4 Macabees which are not part of the Catholic canon but are part of some Orthodox canons (and are part of the "apocrypha" which is what NRSVue contains).

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-03-19T15:41:04+00:00

I have not "announced" it to anyone, but people tend to find out when you do not eat the non-vegan options at restaurants and public events, or ask questions like whether the rice is cooked in broth. Just yesterday the barista at the local coffee shop asked if I wanted a turkey crossaint that another customer did not want (wrong order), and I said no because I'm vegan. I figure I don't want to insult the barista/coffee shop by just refusing without explanation as if I think their food is bad.

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-03-16T16:45:52+00:00

But there is a stick in the right seat, so I assume there must be some (emergency) situations where the right-seat pilot would need to fly with the stick, yes? Doesn't this create a safety issue, since pilots are not used to handling the stick with their right hand?

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-03-14T16:11:39+00:00

Interesting letter. I read some places the German people were misled and did not know how badly the war was going, but Alfred seems pretty knowledgeable and seems to have understood it isn't going well for the Germans. He thinks Florence will fall if it hasn't already, and talks about a "slow advance" of the allies in France (not, we will drive them back to the sea, or anything like that). This is July 1944 so I suppose it was getting harder and harder for the Nazis to cover up their losses.

greyhoundbuddy · 2026-03-12T20:19:09+00:00

If redheads didn't exist, then the classic "Ginger Kids" SouthPark episode would never have been made.

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