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My
Farrago
Gift Shop is now open for business. It includes merchandise
displaying the No Anglican Covenant logo, as well as items sporting
my curve-stitch isometric cube.

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Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.
—Harry Emerson Fosdick,
1922
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Welcome to Lionel Deimel’s Farrago, a
diverse collection of information, opinion, fiction, poetry, and trivia—what
you might expect from a farrago, which, according to the dictionary, is a
medley, conglomeration, or mixture.
Lionel Deimel’s Farrago reflects most of my passions. I am a
computer consultant and former computer science professor, but I have
always been a generalist. I am interested in science and mathematics, in
technology, history, and politics. I am a musician, photographer,
writer, and railfan. (Sadly, there isn’t much railroad material here.) I am a Christian who, attracted by its music,
liturgy, and tolerance, discovered The Episcopal Church long past my
adolescence. To my astonishment, I have become an activist within my
adopted church home.
More specifically, I am a trainer, a database and
Web site designer, an essayist and
poet, a clarinetist and singer, a steam locomotive enthusiast, a cat lover,
a liberal Democrat—I began as a conservative Republican—and a liberal Christian. Never having become
much of a
celebrity, most visitors here really aren’t seeking to discover me. Because
of my diverse interests, however, many can at least find something of
interest on these pages.
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Lionel
Deimel’s Farrago is organized into sections to help you find items of
interest and avoid everything else. The sections are accessible through
navigation buttons at the top left of this and other introductory pages. The sections of my Web site are described below:
Labor Day
Lament, 2011
My latest poem is “Labor
Day Lament, 2011.” My first draft of this poem was posted on my
blog on Labor Day. The final version was published here 9/15/2011.

What to Do with the Anglican
Covenant?
I have proposed a
General Convention resolution to deal with the Anglican Covenant.
Read “A
Proposed Resolution for General Convention 2012” on
Lionel Deimel’s Web Log.

“Farrago”?
Miller brilliantly exposes ID [intelligent
design] for what it is: a farrago of theological assertions and
discredited scientific claims designed to inveigle a religious view
of life into the biology classroom.
—“Seeing and Believing”
by Jerry A. Coyne, The New Republic, February 4, 2009
Will the vogue use of “It is what it is”
become fixed in the farrago of unresponsive responses?
—From William Safire's
“On Language” column of March 5, 2006
The farrago of pop may make the period setting
easier for kids to take, but it’s an experiment dictated by fear
of committing yourself to any one sound, to any one composer’s
imagination of love.
—From a review of Moulin Rouge by David Denby in the May 28, 2001 issue of
The New Yorker
“Farrago” was also Dictionary.com’s Word of the
Day for
March
25, 2002.
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Biography is about me. It contains my résumé
and publication list. Should you be considering engaging me to
provide training, database or Web site design, or other services, you can also
find a description of what I do (or click here
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Church Resources is a
collection of the
spiritual, liturgical, and the pragmatic, including commentary on
current Episcopal and Anglican disputes. Cross-listings are provided
here to original poetry and hymns in the Poetry section. Much of
this material is of interest to non-Episcopalians. My Web Log also
contains a good deal of commentary on The Episcopal Church. |
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Commentary
is a collection of personal and political essays. Additional essays,
generally shorter ones, can be found on my Web Log. |
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Computer Science contains a
somewhat arbitrary selection of
papers and reports I’ve published. Of special interest (because it
hasn’t been published elsewhere) is brief paper that attempts to
demystify radix conversion. |
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Contact Information tells how to contact me. |
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Farrago Gift Shop
offers merchandise sporting some of my designs. |
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Fiction
contains stories. I don’t write much fiction, so this section is
small. |
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Language Notes is about—in H. L. Mencken’s
words—the American
language. Other essays on language can be found in my Web Log. |
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Poetry,
of course, contains my poetry. I am a down-to-earth, unsentimental
poet whose work is quite diverse. This section contains both serious
and humorous verse. |
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Recreational Math contains sections on digital
invariants and curve stitching. I enjoy recreational math, but I don’t
often generate results of interest to anyone else. |
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Search
allows visitors to search Lionel Deimel’s Farrago. |
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Site Map
lists pages on this site by category and highlights recently added pages. It also contains a complete index of
essays in my Web Log. |
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Web Log is
not your typical blog. It is neither a diary nor a running
commentary on some particular topic. Rather, it is a vehicle for
posting modest essays that could, in principle, go elsewhere, particularly
in Language Notes, Commentary, or Church Resources. A complete table
of contents for my Web Log is on the Site
Map page. The Search page can also be used to find something
specific, although the Blogger search on Web Log pages may be better. Over time, I have tried to make my Web Log more
user-friendly. Although I have provided no facility for adding user
comments, feedback is always appreciated. (See Contact Information.)
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Aphorisms
I continue to add to
my collection of original aphorisms. Some of these little gems
embody a good deal of wisdom. Some may just be cryptic. My latest
entry was added 7/5/2011. You can read all my aphorisms
here.
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Be sure to notice the navigation links at the top and
bottom of most pages. These allow you to do such things as read poems
one after another without returning to the introductory poetry page.
Lionel Deimel’s Farrago is largely organized hierarchically, and, after
moving around the site, navigation should become pretty intuitive.
You will notice that pages are generally restricted in
width. Although this is, in part, a holdover from the days before higher
screen resolutions became common, the narrow format generally allows for
pages to be printed on letter-size paper in portrait mode without
truncation or scaling. I hope that this will be appreciated by
those who like to read from paper or who want to share my work with
others. Comments and suggestions, as well as requests for permission
to use anything I have written, are always welcome. Use the Contact Information page to contact me, or click on my
e-mail address, found at
the bottom of most pages. Please write to me if you discover any broken links or
encounter any other technical problems with the site. |
Some visitors may know about me through my work with
Progressive Episcopalians of Pittsburgh or
Via Media USA. You
should know that I have resisted the temptation to write much about my work
with those organizations here. Much of what I have written on behalf of Episcopal Church unity,
some of it anonymously, is available elsewhere and is not to be found
here. My involvement with PEP has often left me little time to write much for my own site,
but I do try to add material regularly. Some may put me in the class of
Episcopal bloggers; others may disagree with that classification.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy your visit to Lionel Deimel’s
Farrago. If you like the site, be sure to tell your friends about it.
Thanks for dropping by.
— LED, 4/8/2010
Page last modified
September 21, 2011
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