On this Feast of St. John Nepomuceno the sun came into view at 5:47. We will lose sight of it again at 20:27.
Our ears will not hear the un-run Ave Maria Bell at 20:45 in the Roman Curia, but it does ring at the proper solar time at The Parish™, Ss. Trinità.
We had a proper for St. John Nepomuceno today in the special texts for the Diocese of Rome.
Anyone want to take a shot at this and provide an accurate and yet smooth version in English? This is a powerful prayer with a fine reminder and a mighty petition.
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This is pretty cool.
NEW: Purdue students demolish the Guinness World Record for fastest Rubik’s cube-solving robot, solving the puzzle cube in just 0.103 seconds, faster than the blink of an eye.
Insane.
The previous record was set by Mitsubishi Electric engineers in 2024 in Japan with a speed of… pic.twitter.com/f50sjWHWD0
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 15, 2025
I was out to supper last night with two readers from the States. Sicilian.
Wonderful caponata.
Pasta alla Norma.
In the market this morning after getting a haircut. Stacked fennel.
Hint: Get some fennel, peel off the leaves and try it raw as an appetizer, dipping it in good (preferably homemade) mayonnaise. The outter leaves have to go, of course, but the inner are great down to the core. Fennel is wonderful baked, like au gratin.
In chessy news, in Bucharest my guy Wesley dropped a game to young Pragg (aka Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, therefore “Pragg”). I was watching the video, skipping forward to the parts where the commentators were focused on their game. (The whole thing was well over 5 hours, otherwise). I must admit that I was puzzled about what my guy was thinking toward the end. It might have been time pressure, but I had thought that it was his game to win, but not after 29. g3. Pragg had black and played the Benko Gambit, which seems not to be much in vogue. Anyway, today Pragg is in 1st place.