Stephen Landry's Blog

A retired highered CIO interested in technology, education, edtech, outdoors, classical music, cigars, and bourbon. Currently teaching in higher education. The views expressed are his own. Reblog != endorsement. Twitter: @landryst

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Twilight 2. 5:07 to 5:20 am. 60º F. July 25, 2026. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. (@dkct25)

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Great Egret. 5:16 am. 62º F. July 20, 2026. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. (@dkct25)

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Collect small astonishments. The first tomato of summer. A dog dreaming in its sleep. Someone laughing before they finish the joke. The moon arriving before the sun has quite departed. We keep waiting for life to announce itself with trumpets, but it has always preferred quieter instruments.

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Mozart's incredible Missa Brevis in F major from the summer of 1774.

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Don’t forget to look around and appreciate all the things going right

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I can confirm personally

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Steve Bauer :: "Something Wicked This Way Comes..." :: Cape San Blas, Florida :: R5M2, RF20mm, f/1.4, 8 Sec, ISO 6400

When you head out to shoot the night sky and you end up with storm clouds and someone on a four wheeler with a red light.

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“Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.” ― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

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“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?” ― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

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A Baroque Spanish Mass for Sunday morning:

Matías García Benayas (active 1690-1737), Missa Defensor Almae Hispaniae

Nicely performed and recorded by Vox Stellae

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Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate, from 1773. This was written by a 17-year old.

Exult, rejoice, o blessed souls! Singing sweet songs, singing your song, the heavens sing praise with me.

A friendly day shines forth, clouds and thunderstorms have already moved away; unforeseen peace has come to the righteous. Darkness was all over the world; arise joyfully at last you, who were hitherto in fear, and, well-disposed, to the blissful morning light lavishly present wreaths of leaves and lilies.

You, the Virgin's garland, grant us peace, Dull the grief, which makes our heart sigh.

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Father & Son fishing @ Twilight 3. 5:00 to 5:10 am. 66º F. July 12, 2026. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. (@dkct25)

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Sunday Pipes from Mitigating Chaos

The Scott brothers play the organs of Ottobeuren Abbey in Germany

https://mitigatingchaos.wordpress.com/2026/07/12/sunday-pipes-233/

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Speaking of cellos. . .

Ophélie Gaillard performs Schumann's Phantasiestücke op. 73.

Happy Saturday.

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Sunrise. 5:33 to 5:41 am. 72º F. July 10, 2026. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. (@dkct25)

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Rise. That hazy start. (viacarad1016)

5:30-5:35am Norwalk, CT

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Kaoru Yamada

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Twilight to Sunrise. 4:45 to 5:45. 1 hour in 12 seconds. 72º F. July 10, 2026. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. (@dkct25)

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Tyler Cowen: How Socialism Hurts the Young

Candidates are promising ‘free’ healthcare, but that could shorten the lives of today’s young people by stifling progress in treatments and

Nowhere is the risk of socialist harm to the young clearer than in healthcare—the very issue on which so many progressive voters are demanding radical reforms. That’s because we are currently in a boom of medical and pharmaceutical innovation, and when radical innovation is emerging, capitalist economies outperform socialist ones by even more than usual. This was true for the information technology revolutions of the 1980s, when America outpaced the Soviet Union, and it is proving true today as healthcare becomes more about innovation, AI, and information technology.

Government-run systems often (not always) do a perfectly fine job setting a broken arm or administering a long-standing, well-known medication. They do much less well when it comes to developing, financing, and delivering a new immunological approach to fighting cancer, personalized to your individual genome at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars. In our rapidly arriving biomedical future, innovation capacity will matter above all else. And though they may not see it today, the people with the most life ahead of them will reap nearly all of the benefits of a dynamic system, or suffer the consequences of a paralytic one.

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And where are American youth in this battle of ideas and systems? So many of them are embracing the progressive left and its promises for single-payer healthcare. They favor price controls, governmental controls, and heavy regulation. They tend to be skeptical about the promise of artificial intelligence to lower costs as well. An underemployed young person might naturally prefer a low-cost system that lets him pay no premium other than a sliver of his tax bill, and no co-pay at the time of treatment. But the money he would save over a lifetime in such a system is nothing compared with the value he’d reap from the numerous, improved treatments that our dynamic healthcare market will have produced by the time he’s a prime consumer.

I never agreed with the notion of centralized healthcare, but these days I regard it as nothing more than a huge mistake—an unforced error that will cut years or maybe even decades off millions of American lives as well as the lives abroad that eventually benefit from the treatments we develop. We need to pay for the pending revolutions coming to healthcare. That will involve some role for government, but most of all it will require capitalism, a lot of revenue, thick capital markets, and the spirit of profit and innovation.