About
My name is James Quinby. I am a husband, father of nine, grandfather of two, UGA alum, ham radio op, gardener, backyard naturalist, and Deacon in the Diocese of Nashville.
I speak fluent Spanish. I never really got the hang of ES/EN keyboard layouts, but emacs has a nice mode (‘spanish-prefix’) which makes it easy to insert Spanish characters, so I hope to post more often in both languages.
This blog is a place to organize my thoughts around my ministry and personal interests. I don’t discuss work-related matters here; this is intentional. Even so, and to remove any doubt on the reader’s part, views expressed here are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.
I have deleted many of my social media accounts, but I remain on Facebook and Instagram because those are how our parishes and schools tend to communicate news and events. I’m also a sucker for funny cat reels.
I’m on LinkedIn because my job requires it. If you’re a ham, you can look me up on QRZ too. I haven’t been on the air much recently, but I want to get back into it as soon as I can.
• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Instagram
• QRZ
You can also occasionally find me on Metafilter, mainly on Fanfare and Ask.
This site is hosted on Micro.blog. Most posts are composed with various text editors and then published via the API. My editor of choice these days is emacs; in the past, it was vscode or even vim with a shell script. I post directly from emacs to micro.blog thanks to a bit of vibe-coding with Claude. There’s a similar plugin for vscode on my github site.
Currently reading:
I Believe in the Holy Spirit