Happy Thanksgiving Day
Happy Thanksgiving Day
Plus web links
I am not quite sure if I knew anything about Thanksgiving Day until I came to the United States several years ago. On my first Thanksgiving Day, my uncle bought me a train ticket to visit his family, and I had a great time.
Over the years, I have warmed up to the celebration and the mood of the day. Today, I will be eating my customized thanksgiving meal, thankful to God for life. The meal doesn’t look so great, so I will save you the pictures :)
I spent my day writing a few lines in an essay (on aging) that I plan to publish here soon. I wrote like 14 lines of codes for work, several hours on the phone/Zoom with friends and family, and some time untangling the web:
Here are a few things that you might find interesting from my web surfing:
1: History channel’s First Thanksgiving Meal
“The holiday feast dates back to November 1621, when the newly arrived Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians gathered at Plymouth for an autumn harvest celebration, an event regarded as America’s first Thanksgiving.”
2: This article from Simply Catholic on The Origins of Thanksgiving, disputing the November 1621 origin.
“The Thanksgiving of 1565 was celebrated in what is now St. Augustine, Florida. Of course, the Spanish colonizers who hosted it were Catholic, and they gave thanks to God, as Catholics do, for their safe passage and arrival in the New World. Not only did they celebrate with a meal of gratitude that day, but began with the celebration of Mass … But, most importantly, remember the holiday’s origins and purpose. No matter if you believe it was started by Washington, Lincoln or Spanish colonialists, it has always been clear that God is the reason we give thanks.”
3: And this short video clip from PBS. The First Thanksgiving Was Actually in St. Augustine
And, to be sure, I didn’t spend all my day being obsessed with the origin of Thanksgiving.
4: For someone who cannot stop thinking about Nigeria, I watched the ongoing ‘drama’ about the END SARS report. In an interview granted by Channels TV, one of the END SARS panelists responded to Nigeria’s Minister of Information ‘Tales by the Moonlight’ comments regarding the report. It is unfortunate to see a government that thinks so little of her citizens, scratch that, a government that thinks nothing of her citizen.
END SARS Report Lawyer Slams Lai Mohammed, Terms Him A Bully
5: I am a Manchester United fan, and we just signed a new manager, Ralf Rangnick, and I cannot but wonder who the hell is this guy. My brother said he is the godfather of the German pressing game, and he sent me this video from a coaching conference:
Ralf Rangnick • Coaching philosophy, tactics, and data-driven football strategy • CV Live Wembley
I can only hope he is as effective as he sounds.
6: An interesting essay on the importance of pastors vs. theologians by Professor Ed Feser. Ed is a brilliant Catholic philosopher.
Aquinas on the relative importance of pastors and theologians
“Inevitably, as Aquinas sees, the question is not whether pastors will be guided by theology, but rather which theology will guide them. Wherever the pastor ends up taking his flock, some theologian is always in the driver’s seat.”
7: And that latest crypto millionaire
Happy Thanksgiving!
What’s on my bookshelf?
Here are the books I am currently reading.
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies by Geoffrey B. West
Survival Analysis: A Self-Learning Text by David G. Kleinbaum, Mitchel Klein
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Modern Computer Vision with PyTorch: Explore deep learning concepts and implement over 50 real-world image applications by V Kishore Ayyadevara and Yeshwanth Reddy