Rod Dreher needs to shut up.
Dreher, today: [I] struggle. Here is my contemplative prayer life, in a nutshell. In the past, when I’ve been able to overcome my own “Squirrel!” tendencies, and give myself over to the meditative Jesus Prayer, I...
Author: David Ryan
How to Find Where You Are from the Sun: the basic principle.
A Davis Mark 3 “emergency sextant” is all you really need. How to Find Where You Are from the Sun is the title of George Buehler’s slender but utterly worthwhile pamphlet on basic celestial...
Two Lesser Known Freedom of Speech Cases
When I was a kid, maybe eight years old, I asked my father “Why don’t doctors advertise?” My fathers answer, as best I can recall, was that doctors had, as a profession, decided that...
Someday you will be dead too.
Three generations of my wife’s kin enjoying a grey Decemeber day on MON TIKI Our daughters are dancing in the local production of The Nutcracker, and last night some of my wife’s family came...
Introducing “Boat Building for Dummies Who Aren’t Stupid”
Captain David Ryan, Prince of Grinds, grinding Mon Tiki’s rudders I can’t think of any way to write this so that it has that life-lesson-cum-riddle feel that I’m so fond of, so I’ll just...
This is not a boat.
The only purpose of this post is answer the request from some of you more more pictures
“You didn’t write that.” (The Copyright joins the Copyleft)
“In the long run it is the majority who will determine what the constitutional rights of the minority are.” — Justice William Rehnquist Yesterday brought news that further confirms that my wife and I...
Hard Cases Make Bad Algorithms, a Prologue
Some people find the answers to life’s impossible question in the Bible. For the rest of us, there’s Star Trek.
Scenes from a Montauk Seal Watching Trip on the Catamaran MON TIKI
Sean McFall, the epoxy mix-master, at the con.
A Generation of Hope
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Charity. Here is the introductory post for the Symposium. Here is a list of all posts so far. I have some experience on the...
The Uncanny Valley: It’s a Nice Place to Visit, But You Wouldn’t Want to Live There
From How a Creepy Car Insurance Idea Could Save Thousands of Lives (and the Planet) at The Atlantic: “Lots of markets deal with some kind of market failure, and car insurance is no exception....
Falling Out of Love with Hate, Part 4: The Thermomixed Turkey Fryer Edition
(Preamble, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) Phil Bolger’s “Alice”, a 28′ power-cruiser The late and much missed Phil Bolger, in Boats with an Open Mind, chapter 37, writing about his Alice design,...
Why Doesn’t the 2nd Amendment Give Me the Right to Own an RPG?
Yours truly, holding forth at The Atlantic on scintillating subject of passenger vessel regulations: Uninspected Passenger Vessel (aka 6-pack) is kind of a wild-west, seat of the pants designation. It puts the burden on the skipper...
Ain’t Love Grand? (a Tony Comstock guest post)
I am on the Hampton Jitney, west-bound. There’s just been a little to do, a dust up if you will, at the Amaganett stop. “What happened?” you ask. Well it seems that a fellow...
Thermomixed Up Strikes Back! (The Work and Dignity Edition)
S/V INTEMPERANCE, November 2009, somewhere between Montauk Point and Bermuda “You can’t throw bull with the ocean, she won’t listen.” — Harold “Dynamite” Payson, Build the New Instant Boats (Previously, Parts 1, 2, 3 , 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8) In...
Disruption Junction, What’s Your Function? Part 2
From The California Public Utilities Commission: Lyft, SideCar, and Uber were cited $20,000 each for violations of state law, including operating as passenger carriers without evidence of public liability and property damage insurance coverage...
On Twitter Avatars
A recent twitter exchange with James Bennet, combined with a recent change to my twitter avatar causes me to gather up some thoughts about the way we use photographs as a part of our...
We interrupt this acrimony to bring you MON TIKI’s first taste of Block Island Sound
It was unseasonably warm here in Montauk today. The ongoing gasoline issues and last week’s nor’easter had prevented my uncle from coming over from East Hampton for my older daughter’s birthday, so today we...
Numeracy, Hedonism and Journalism: A Place-Holder
For those of you playing along at home, there will be some required reading for this upcoming post. In chronological order: At The Atlantic: Hard Core, by Natasha Vargas-Cooper Is That a Boiled Frog...
