William H. Boyd

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William H. Boyd

William H. Boyd

@WilliamHBoyd2

Retired software architect. Author of “By the Light of Uranium Glass” & “Term Life: A Novel of Love, Death, and Computer Security”. Catholic convert.

Katılım Mart 2020
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Dave Stevis
Dave Stevis@StevisDave·
@JonStewartIL What you have written is completely untrue. Yet you post this time and time again making you look more and more like a total lunatic. You never engage or do even the slightest bit of research. X is full of people like you at the moment rage baiting and peddling lies.
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Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart@JonStewartIL·
The camera that took this picture, a Hasselblad, was not protected in any way from solar radiation. The moon unlike Earth is in direct intense sunlight as it has no atmosphere or magnetosphere. The Kodak film would have been destroyed… this picture could not have been taken on the moon. #NASA #moonlanding
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William H. Boyd
William H. Boyd@WilliamHBoyd2·
@ProvisionistP “So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter.” - also Paul.
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Robbert Leusink
Robbert Leusink@robbertleusink·
The long arm of Catholicism reaches to every craft beer tap on earth In the 17th century, Paulaner monks in Munich faced 40 days of Lent with zero solid food Their solution: brew a beer so thick and calorie-dense it could replace bread They called it Sankt-Vaters-Bier: Holy Father Beer Then they worried it was too delicious to count as sacrifice So they shipped a barrel to the Pope for judgment It spoiled crossing the Alps The Pope tasted it, declared drinking something so foul was penance enough, and gave his blessing That beer became the Doppelbock You can still buy it today It is called Salvator
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William H. Boyd
William H. Boyd@WilliamHBoyd2·
@CreativeWolf Outlook on Artemis II is probably trying to ping a Microsoft service on Earth, and it is not getting a timely response. Things like this are difficult to test until you get far enough outside of the expected environment. Earth orbit is not far enough away.
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William H. Boyd
William H. Boyd@WilliamHBoyd2·
@OldWest1453 @AppyOrtho My father was born in the 1920’s. In the fall, school let out so the children could pick cotton. Everyone picked cotton.
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Old West
Old West@OldWest1453·
@AppyOrtho No, only blacks ever picked cotton. Which is why Merle Haggard wrote a song about it. LOL.
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Come Home to Rome
Come Home to Rome@ComeHometoRome·
Does anyone else feel like the demons truly do come out attack full frontal during Holy Week? Man it’s one battle after another this week.
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William H. Boyd
William H. Boyd@WilliamHBoyd2·
@ChrisMartzWX Read Mark Twain’s “The Mysterious Stranger”. The idea you are describing is not new and is perhaps the most horrific thing imaginable.
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Chris Martz
Chris Martz@ChrisMartzWX·
So. I’m curious. Have any of you ever wondered if nobody else is real and that everything is an illusion?
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William H. Boyd
William H. Boyd@WilliamHBoyd2·
@WorldWatching3 No. To be honest, hearing it once was enough. I did learn how to slow down my Kodak camera shutter to 1/30 of a second with a dead flash cube to match the scan rate of the television screen so I could photograph Alan Bean in Apollo 12. Doubt that picture survived.
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Erik Geraldsson
Erik Geraldsson@WorldWatching3·
@WilliamHBoyd2 I did not hear the Apollo 8 broadcast, although I was already an Apollo program fan boy at 4, with Apollo posters in my room. Are you still able to play the Apollo 11 recording?
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Erik Geraldsson
Erik Geraldsson@WorldWatching3·
Who else watched the Apollo 11 moon landing live? I was 5. My parents woke me up to watch it, saying you'll remember this you're whole life. And they were correct
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Fr. Bayer Holz
Fr. Bayer Holz@gonefishin1948·
Type a word in German besides: Auf Wiedersehen, Ja, or Nazi.
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PeterSweden
PeterSweden@PeterSweden7·
Tydligen ser det ut som att X nu visar poster på Svenska till Engelsktalande användare. Stämmer det, svara gärna på Engelska om du ser detta😁
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Wendell
Wendell@wendelltalks·
Do you believe Jesus is God? 28 percent of evangelicals recently surveyed answered no. If nearly a third of evangelicals say Jesus is not God, it reveals a church quietly walking away from its own foundation. The question isn’t if judgment comes, it’s how much damage will be done first.
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William H. Boyd
William H. Boyd@WilliamHBoyd2·
@walterkirn Colbert should be careful reaching for that ring. No doubt he intends to recruit nine former talk show wraiths to support him in his quest.
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Walter Kirn
Walter Kirn@walterkirn·
I hear Colbert will be writing all the big movies going forward. Stephen Colbert to cowrite next 'Lord of the Rings' movie after leaving late night | KSL.com ksl.com/article/514727…
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William H. Boyd
William H. Boyd@WilliamHBoyd2·
@AndrewPetiprin Never thought about being Catholic rests upon having an absolute claim to truth, and having an absolute claim to truth is downright difficult if there is no absolute truth to be claimed.
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William H. Boyd
William H. Boyd@WilliamHBoyd2·
@johncwright2001 @ChrisMartzWX You can tell what leftist liberals are doing by what they accuse you of doing. Despite having owned the arts for more than a century, they seem to have lost all imagination. Or, maybe they have come to experience what priests say about sin. It’s boring and all the same.
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John Wright
John Wright@johncwright2001·
@ChrisMartzWX Sufferers of Trump derangement will not fall silent after Trump leaves. They suffered Bush derangement before him, and will suffer Vance derangement after. They hate reality, truth, justice, the American way, and God Almighty. The hatred is suicidal. Not going anywhere.
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Chris Martz
Chris Martz@ChrisMartzWX·
TDS is a real mental illness. I will honestly be glad when Trump is out of office just so these stupid, insufferable pieces of crap whining every day finally shut the heII up.
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William H. Boyd
William H. Boyd@WilliamHBoyd2·
@AndrewPetiprin Barbarians used to smash things which required effort on their part. Now they need only delete and ignore. Civilization has never been more fragile.
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Andrew Petiprin
Andrew Petiprin@AndrewPetiprin·
My latest. One more take on Timothée Chalamet's unfortunate comments about ballet and opera. I explore here what I did not see amid all the reactions: What his attitude says about our culture's fundamental relationship with the past. spesalviinstitute.com/post/mr-chalam…
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William H. Boyd
William H. Boyd@WilliamHBoyd2·
@lampwright4 There’s no benefit to lightning to strike one target rather than another. There are huge benefits to making sure an election goes the way you want. Why wouldn’t there be cheating?
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Sola Scriptura
Sola Scriptura@SolaScriptura60·
@JimSanoBC79 Roman Catholic tradition is not “sacred”. It’s a man-made addition to Scripture that was unknown to Christ and the apostles.
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Jim Sano
Jim Sano@JimSanoBC79·
I learned why Protestants who read translations such as the NIV may have a hard time thinking Sacred Tradition is taught by Christ, Paul, and the Gospels. Paradosis is a Greek word meaning "tradition," "transmission," or "a giving over.” Anytime “tradition” is used in a positive
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William H. Boyd
William H. Boyd@WilliamHBoyd2·
@SolaScriptura60 @JimSanoBC79 Then how can Jesus say there are many more things for the apostles to learn they are not ready for yet, and why does he tell them the Holy Spirit will lead them into all truth if they have already heard it. And why do some in Jerusalem have trouble with Paul?
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William H. Boyd
William H. Boyd@WilliamHBoyd2·
@AndrewPetiprin Do you know “Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano” by Claude Bolling which Bolling recorded playing jazz piano with Jean Pierre Rampall playing flute? Bolling made other jazz-classical fusion recordings as well. They are all sweet suites as the vinyl LP album covers attest.
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Andrew Petiprin
Andrew Petiprin@AndrewPetiprin·
What's a piece of music you would guess I don't know but would change my life? I'm hungry for a new beautiful thing, a fresh source of inspiration.
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