• Uncategorical Weirdness

    Into The Light

    One of the photos I took while on our trip to the East Coast. My brother-in-law, Wally, was killed in January 1968 in Hue, during the infamous Tet offensive. He is listed on panel 37 East, line 54, as Edward W. Crum. Via: Flickr Title: Into The Light By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 23 May ’08, 9.53pm CDT PST Detail from the Vietnam Memorial, Washington DC. Edward W. Crum "Wally"

  • Geek Out! - The Never-Ending Bloga - Today

    Just because I can

    I changed themes again, this time rather painlessly, so that I could add a Google Reader share widget to the left column. I’ll be customizing the various header images over the long weekend and perhaps softening the color scheme and changing font. This theme is called Cutline and seems to work okay right out of the box. I have to add in my custom style stuff, but the photos page looks okay as – is. I’ll be uploading a lot of pictures to Flickr from the East Coast trip and some backlog too. But first we have to catch a…

  • The Life of Riley

    Mega Kitty Love Fest: Day 4

    We returned from our vacation trip on Sunday and since then we’ve gotten back into the routine: eat, sleep, work, and pet the cat. Pet the cat. And pet the cat some more. Rileycat is an affectionate cat on any given day, but after we return from an absence, he becomes a LOVEMONGER. He is like movable kitty velcro. He likes nothing better than to be incessantly juggled into a little ball and held and stroked and cooed over (various songs are required. Don’t make me sing them, they’re stupid and all have the word “babycat” in them). He doesn’t…

  • Blogs Wot I Read - Random Access Memories - Uncategorical Weirdness

    A Fizz-Nik For The Ages

    Pop-bottle snap-on cup makes ice cream floats on demand – Boing Boing The Fizz Cup is a cup that screws on to the top of a pop bottle. You fill it with ice-cream and squeeze the bottle and the soda rushes over the ice-cream and turns into an ice-cream float that fizzes out and into your gob, sparing you the mess of making ice-cream floats the old way. Yeah. This is nothing new; I had a gadget called a “Fizz-nik” when I was a little kid in Albuquerque. Mine looked like this, except it was green and white. It was…

  • Episcopal - Mini-Posts

    Zimbabwe: Kunonga Excommunicated

    Episcopal Life Online – WORLD REPORT The controversial former bishop of Harare, Nolbert Kunonga, has been officially excommunicated, thereby stripping him of his ability to function as a cleric in the Anglican Church. The announcement by the dean of the Church of the Province of Central Africa, the Rt. Rev. Albert Chama, comes following disturbing reports of continued harassment and violence from local police against Anglicans trying to worship in Zimbabwes capital city.

  • Episcopal - Hot Off The Presses - Mini-Posts

    Anglicans in Zimbabwe: Oppression from Z to A

    Riot Police and CIO stop Church services HARARE – Baton-wielding riot police on Sunday burst into a number of Anglican church services across the capital Harare, disrupting mass at churches aligned with the Right Reverend Bishop Sebastian Bakare. Bakare was appointed substantive bishop of the Harare diocese in December following the ouster of Bishop Nolbert Kunonga, Mugabe’s prominent pet bishop.

  • Episcopal - Good and Joyful Things - Mini-Posts

    What’s Up With Wheaton?

    The Christian Century reports on the very complicated situation in the Wheaton/Glen Ellyn area, where a series of splits amongst former Episcopalian parishes are laid out pretty fairly. What’s odd is that the writer doesn’t reference the new bishop of Chicago, only quoting or interviewing our retired Bishop, William Persell.  But it’s apparently not completely about Teh Gays. It’s originally about Teh Wimminz. And the faith once delivered, etc.