{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"talqix.cloud - Dcn. Jay Quinby","home_page_url":"https://talqix.cloud","feed_url":"https://talqix.cloud/posts/jquinby","_microblog":{"about":"https://talqix.cloud/about/api","id":"30628","username":"jquinby","bio":"Deacon of the Diocese of Nashville. Husband, (grand)father, ham radio op, and backyard naturalist. \n\nThis blog is a place to organize my occasional thoughts around those things. I don't get into work-related stuff here; this is very much on purpose. Suffice to say that I've spent close to 30 years in IT; these days I focus more on people than tech. \n\nWe live in Middle Tennessee, which is a lot like Middle Earth except that it is hotter.","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":7,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Dcn. Jay Quinby","url":"http://jquinby.com","avatar":"https://avatars.talqix.cloud/avatars/2026/03/30628.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"92115889","content_html":"\n

Currently reading: Deceit, Desire, and the Novel by René Girard 📚

\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.jquinby.com/2026/06/13/currently-reading-deceit-desire-and.html","date_published":"2026-06-13T16:59:28+00:00","author":{"name":"Dcn. Jay Quinby","url":"http://jquinby.com","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2026%2F03%2F30628.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jquinby"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"16:59","date_timestamp":1781369968,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91995798","content_html":" “They say to understand it, you have to go back and do it again” \n

Nic Rowan writes about historian Gordon Wood and his decision to read Proust at\n90 (h/t Arts & Letters Daily):

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\n

“We have a room full of bibliophiles here,” Will said, gesturing to the two hundred\nor so people seated in the ballroom. “What have you read recently in American\nhistory that we ought to read?”
\n“What book am I reading?” Wood asked.
\nWill nodded. “What book in American history?”
\n“I’m not reading American history right now,” Wood laughed. “I just finished Proust!\nI said I would do it before I die, and well . . .”
\nThe whole room...

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The world according to The Narrator.

\n

So there are the things we desire, except that it turns out that what we’re really\nafter is our own mental versions of those things. We spin up these entire elaborate\nfantasies about a person, place, or thing and invest everything into them until they...

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Currently reading: The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust 📚

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Eastern Elderberry Borer

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Sixty-six pounds of dog: jquinby.com

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Another few years until it’s filled in but I am very happy with the progress so far.

\n\"A\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.jquinby.com/2026/05/27/another-few-years-until-its.html","date_published":"2026-05-27T16:10:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Dcn. Jay Quinby","url":"http://jquinby.com","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2026%2F03%2F30628.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jquinby"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-27 16:10","date_timestamp":1779898255,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90950260","content_html":" Magnifica Humanitas \n

Yesterday was about a nice a day off as I could have asked for: slept in a bit,\ncoffee, read through Magnifica Humanitas, cleaned up and straightened out the\noffice, did a bit of planting, and so on. I had put some pork butts in the smoker the\nnight before, so when we pulled them out yesterday morning, dinner was already\ndone. The rainy weather kept us inside for most of the day and things stayed kind of\nlow-key.

\n

Herewith are some of my favorite bits and pieces of Magnifica Humanitas. I am still\nmeditating on it though I’ve already adjusted a few things personally - first and...

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Here is an AI prompt that I’ve been working on. It puts Claude to work as something\nof a research assistant when it’s time for me to prepare for a homily. As my weekends\nfor preaching are scheduled well in advance, I have plenty of runway. Usually a week\nor two out, I’ll spend some time with the texts in lectio divina, listening for the\nguidance of the Holy Spirit. Sometimes this is sufficient; sometimes it isn’t.

\n

When I need to dig a little deeper, I’ll start opening commentaries and doing some\nbackground work and this is designed to put some starting points in my hands. I\ncreated a...

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Our pastor begins a pretty hectic travel schedule which puts me in the chute for a\nwhole bunch of daily communion services. These are held, like daily mass, in the\nsmall chapel behind the main sanctuary, which is the original church building and has been\ncombined with a small fellowship hall. The weekday...

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Currently reading: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust 📚

\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.jquinby.com/2026/05/13/currently-reading-in-the-shadow.html","date_published":"2026-05-13T12:54:10+00:00","author":{"name":"Dcn. Jay Quinby","url":"http://jquinby.com","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2026%2F03%2F30628.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jquinby"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-13 12:54","date_timestamp":1778676850,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89581889","content_html":" Select from among you… \n

This weekend I was offered the option of a funeral or a baptism, so I took the\nbaptism which turned out to be eight baptisms and it was a blast. The main\nsanctuary was set up for a wedding at noon, so our parish witnessed the full arc of\nlife: baptism, matrimony, and death. It’s...

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Prickly pear - first blossom!

\n\"Close\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.jquinby.com/2026/05/03/prickly-pear-first-blossom.html","date_published":"2026-05-03T18:52:51+00:00","author":{"name":"Dcn. Jay Quinby","url":"http://jquinby.com","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2026%2F03%2F30628.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jquinby"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-03 18:52","date_timestamp":1777834371,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89194945","content_html":" The Social Edge \n

Bright Simons points out that the miracle of an LLM is less a measure of its own\n‘smartness’ and more a reflection of the civilization that produced\nit, because\nit’s the civilization’s output which trained it.

\n
\n

What all this implies for AI is straightforward. Every token in a training corpus is\na fossil of social interaction—a trace of negotiation, argumentation, institutional\nmeaning-making, or cultural transmission. The intelligence that AI systems exhibit\nwas never individual to begin with. It was forged in the spaces between people.

\n
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\n

And if those spaces are allowed to shrink due...

\n
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The AI Research Group of the Centre for Digital Culture has released a second\npublication in their series examining Artificial Intelligence and Catholic social\nteaching, ethics, and moral theology. The first volume - Encountering Artificial\nIntelligence was good and I’m very much looking forward to starting...

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I burned a day of PTO so that I could get the spring planting done since my weekend\nwindows have gotten considerably smaller. The major project was the border out front,\nwhich I’ve been slowly converting into a cottage-style riot of things. After an\nexpensive (but oh so worth it) trip the local...

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Primero las Escrituras, luego la Comunión. Ese es el modelo en el Evangelio de hoy, en la liturgia, y también en nuestras vidas. Si queremos reconocer a Cristo en el mundo, tenemos que ser primero un pueblo de la Palabra.

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.jquinby.com/2026/04/19/primero-las-escrituras-luego-la.html","date_published":"2026-04-19T23:15:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Dcn. Jay Quinby","url":"http://jquinby.com","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2026%2F03%2F30628.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jquinby"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-19 23:15","date_timestamp":1776640546,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87773496","content_html":"

First peony!

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.jquinby.com/2026/04/07/first-peony.html","date_published":"2026-04-07T15:52:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Dcn. Jay Quinby","url":"http://jquinby.com","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2026%2F03%2F30628.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jquinby"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-07 15:52","date_timestamp":1775577141,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87697934","content_html":" He is Risen indeed! \n

Triduum thoughts:

\n

This was the first year I found myself aware - very aware - of the continuous\nliturgical flow from Holy Thursday to Evening Prayer of Easter Sunday. The unresolved\ntension hovered in the background throughout the last few days and was finally put to\nrest when I laid...

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@robertbreen So far so good! Already picking up a few hints of both.

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He is risen indeed!

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Ok let’s do this thing. Currently reading: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust 📚

\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.jquinby.com/2026/04/01/ok-lets-do-this-thing.html","date_published":"2026-04-01T19:50:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Dcn. Jay Quinby","url":"http://jquinby.com","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2026%2F03%2F30628.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jquinby"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-01 19:50","date_timestamp":1775073008,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87216452","content_html":" He answered \n

Towards the end of The Rings of Saturn, Sebald discourses a bit on\nChateaubriand. This bit resonated with me deeply, as someone who has also planted a\nnumber of trees:

\n
\n

When he returned in 1807 from his long journey to Constantinople and Jerusalem, he\nbought a summer house that lay hidden among wooded hills in the Vallée aux Loups,\nnot far from the town of Aulnay. It is there that he begins to write his memoirs, on\nthe first pages of which he speaks of the trees he has planted and tended with his\nown hands. Now, he says, they are still so small that I provide them with shade\nwhenever I...

\n
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Tonight we’re using a Christmas gift from the kids: symphony tickets! The Nashville\nSymphony is performing Holst’s The Planets which should be a lot of fun. I’ve heard “Mars” gets to stand in for a lot final sci-fi movie scoring; it’s one of those\npieces that sounds like you’ve heard it...

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How amiable is this law: jquinby.com

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@ChrisJWilson It was just beautiful and we were blessed with fine weather - the garden seemed to be in top form!

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@ReaderJohn Thank you!

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@jquinby.bsky.social Thanks mang!

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@jquinby.bsky.social Thanks!! I’ll hook you up with something for sure

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@justin2022.bsky.social I’d say ‘go for Christ in the Eucharist if for no other reason,’ but Christ in the Eucharist is literally the reason.

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@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social I’ll be happy enough just to see my 401(k) recover a bit.

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@sophiegilbert.bsky.social That last episode was some of the tensest watching I’ve experienced in a long time. Even so, it might have been as interesting (or maybe more) to see his family learn about their imminent ruin earlier in the season and then watch them try to make sense of it all afterward.

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@JohnBrady I started using it for my papers a year or two ago, and it’s almost certainly overkill for most things, but when you absolutely positively want it to look just so…

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@JohnBrady Catching up after travel…LaTeX can apparently do this via the microtype package, if you want to go into the deepest of waters.

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@ayjay the look you make when the VPS guy is at the door again.

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@jefftiedrich.bsky.social 9 of 10 pugs agree

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@jquinby.bsky.social In fact “the angriest X in the world….it cannot eat…it cannot sleep” has been part of our married lexicon forever, applied to dogs, children, etc.

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@nashseverewx.com #ambientgang

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@jquinby.bsky.social Seriously liking it. I’ve read one or two of Carl Hiaasen’s other books and they’re in the same vein: crazy south FL antics.

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@justin2022.bsky.social I always tell people that it’s a really big tent; sometimes the voices are louder from one part than another. I will pray for your intentions this weekend before the Blessed Sacrament.

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@jessesingal.com Can confirm.

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@ellecordova.bsky.social All of these ad jingles though.

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@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Single-volume annotated illustrated slipcased omnibus edition when? 🙏

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@jquinby.bsky.social Absolution is already on the list because it goes without saying.

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@mboroseverewx.bsky.social Can confirm! Flakes falling along New Salem/AVR south of Veterans!

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@jquinby.bsky.social Thank you!

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@ayjay Who among us…

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@nashseverewx.bsky.social This guy forecasts.

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@mboroseverewx.bsky.social ETA? Clear as a bell out there atm.

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