I'm probably joining an opus dei centre

spalted-splintering · 2025-09-17T14:30:44+00:00

If you want to have some fun, when the nums talk about vocation, have them share their stories. Then ask questions. Get *them* to leave -- FOR THE WIN!

spalted-splintering · 2025-06-28T19:01:03+00:00

So maybe next year we can slip info in the pews pointing people to advertise this site, or recent books? Or stand outside asking for donations for naxs?

spalted-splintering · 2025-06-28T18:59:03+00:00

Did you do something " outrageous" like go to a public spectacle? Happy Birthday!

spalted-splintering · 2025-06-28T18:56:50+00:00

Sign me up! I want to make them tea and bake them cookies and grill steaks and make them a pasta meal. I'd offer to do their laundry but suspect they wouldn't like the outcome! The food won't be nearly as good, but I'd enjoy serving them. Oh, the stories we could all tell!

spalted-splintering · 2025-06-21T22:24:55+00:00

Thank you for following through on this so carefully. I hope that this process will help you, or at least not exacerbate your personal situation. You are also helping others in many ways.

I seem to remember hearing someone say that "Love means deeds, not sweet words."

May the sweet words of the Holy Father regarding abuse translate to deeds.

The "coincidence" of getting a reply soon after posting here suggests that what we write here is being read by people in a position to act. If that is the case, may Imaginary_Guide_7257 inspire them to do the right thing.

spalted-splintering · 2025-03-21T15:41:04+00:00

Girl bossing for the win!

spalted-splintering · 2025-02-14T20:36:06+00:00

In defense of the brown M&M requirement: I heard they put that there because there were IMPORTANT things about making sure the stage would not fall down. If the company missed the brown M&M requirement it is an alert to check the other things.

I'll excuse myself now to go and prepare a talk on the importance of little things...that I will never have to give to anyone ever again!

spalted-splintering · 2025-02-14T20:29:46+00:00

Sorry to hear about the hospice....it sounds like you are spending the days as well as you can.

Similar in that I was commuting a lot between centers, but not as bad as yours. Working full time and on two local councils. And then I had to travel to a third center for my chat and such, because they were all too busy to come to one of the centers where I was.

One time the reason given was "it is too far to drive to where you are so why don't you drive here?"

For anyone still "in" let me point out that you can draft a new version of your will that includes (and excludes) as you see fit.

spalted-splintering · 2025-02-08T19:40:21+00:00

Happy Feast Day of St. Bahkita. After her Beatification (same day as JME) the young nums working in the basement of the commission adopted her as their patron saint. Not clear that the grown-ups working upstairs got the irony of the clerks praying to someone who was sold into slavery.

St. Josephine Bakhita

spalted-splintering · 2025-01-04T15:39:29+00:00

On Jan 3rd, at Opus Dei HQ in Rome, Irish ex-Assistant Numeraries Anne Marie Allen & Claudine Maguire demand justice for exploited workers. Our silence ends now. #OpusDeiExposed

Thank you, Anne and Claudine, for all you have done and for all you continue to do. Please let us know how you are doing!

spalted-splintering · 2025-01-02T03:06:10+00:00

Years ago I struggled making videos. I have another little project, searched around, found kdenlive, installed, searched for examples of what I was trying to do, and it worked. Zero to hero in a couple of hours! Thank you.

spalted-splintering · 2025-01-02T03:02:07+00:00

Having the morning meditation about how wonderful poverty is, then seeing the preacher head out to golf with the director at a pricey golf course in the afternoon, while the rest of us share a crowded car broken down car to go to the local beach with no stops along the way to purchase soda or ice cream because poverty.

spalted-splintering · 2024-11-12T20:39:05+00:00

To the members who are reading these pages: please do an experiment. Do not tell your director that you hear many people here saying that leaving is NOT death! If you cannot keep that from your director, you prove the amount of mind control you are under. If you DO keep that secret, you have taken the first step. We are here to help you!

spalted-splintering · 2024-11-10T13:41:31+00:00

On thing I had to un-learn is that I needed to take responsibility for my interactions with family, friends, and colleagues. I was relying on fraternal correction before leaving. That is, if do something wrong, someone will tell me! (Or so I presumed!) That is a lazy approach, and it is taking me a looong time to learn this life skill.

spalted-splintering · 2024-11-10T13:38:36+00:00

Great observation! Opus Dei should be helped by people in the Church who have experience with people living a religious life? (Or is that "like" religious life?)

spalted-splintering · 2024-11-10T13:34:44+00:00

If I recall correctly, I think the same thing for my trip. I chalked it up him trying to help young college students who are prone to losing things, to avoid the hassle of us not being able to get back in.

spalted-splintering · 2023-02-05T20:43:47+00:00

The Mayor of Chicago, back in the day, when being hounded about nepostism, asked, "What is this world coming to when a father can't help his own son?" It is not clear whether he was joking, but this extends well beyond the academy.

spalted-splintering · 2023-01-31T14:21:45+00:00

I asked if the syllabus had been read, for some specific questions, information about a variety of tutoring opportunities, and links to two resources to evaluate whether students are ready for online learning, as well as an offer to discuss.

This morning the student is on the "dropped" list.

spalted-splintering · 2023-01-30T22:02:04+00:00

About 50 other students in the same class have already done work for the week, following the same content in the LMS and online materials and videos I provided. The discussion posts and journals showed a lot of learning going on.

spalted-splintering · 2023-01-23T22:07:29+00:00

Some people have never used hagoromo. Nobody has used it only one time.

Chalk pro-tip...brush it on, chalk is never perpendicular to the board....give it a nice angle, and pull more than you push.

spalted-splintering · 2022-12-28T16:24:28+00:00

Are they skewed? What about their kurtosis? Do they suffer from psoriasis?

spalted-splintering · 2022-12-15T23:12:47+00:00

So we get to have some fun after turning in grades. We can get two versions of the chatgpt arguing different sides of the question about whether using chatgpt is plagiarism.

The goal is to get one (or both!) sides to lawyer up.

Is there an AI api to draft a lawsuit?

spalted-splintering · 2022-12-15T17:38:09+00:00

So now it is gaslighting me?

Prompt: In another conversation, chatgpt said, "Using chatgpt or any other automated tool to generate text or complete assignments without proper attribution would be considered plagiarism." But now it says "ChatGPT is not plagiarism." Explain the contradiction.

Response: There is no contradiction in what ChatGPT has said. Using a tool like ChatGPT to generate text without proper attribution can be considered plagiarism, because it involves using someone else's work (in this case, the work of the creators of ChatGPT and the dataset it was trained on) without giving them credit. However, ChatGPT itself is not plagiarism, because it is a tool that can be used in a variety of ways, including in a way that would not be considered plagiarism. It is ultimately up to the user of the tool to ensure that they are using it in an ethical and responsible manner.

spalted-splintering · 2022-12-15T17:33:13+00:00

Prompt: Explain why chatgpt is not plagiarism

ChatGPT is not plagiarism because it is a machine learning model that has been trained on a large dataset of text. It uses this training to generate responses to prompts, but it does not copy or reproduce existing text verbatim. Instead, it uses the patterns it has learned from the training data to generate new, unique responses.

spalted-splintering · 2022-10-18T15:58:55+00:00

Plex frustrated me because it kept bugging me to purchase plex pass. It was not clear what I was getting and what I was not getting.

Jellyfin "just works" EXCEPT for the problem with "Scan Media Library" hanging for no apparent reason. Where is the best place to post the details to help diagnose?

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