• Hot Off The Presses - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Work Hard? Or Hardly Working?

    December 15, 2006 - By 

    One Utah » Blog Archive » It’s Hard Work, Working Hard… President Bush, according to Newsweek, is going to take longer than expected to get up to speed on the war in Iraq. Briefing the president has been limited to short 45-minute sessions that won’t “overload the president’s schedule,” starting with “a basic level of strategy” and gradually introducing him to various aspects of Iraq policy. My mom and dad had a long-standing joke between them; when Pop would return home, Mom would gauge how tired he was by it. She'd ask "Wuhk hahd, or hahdly wuhkin'?" It was a…

  • Radio - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Its beginning to look a lot like public radio at WBEZ

    December 14, 2006 - By 

    Its beginning to look a lot like public radio at WBEZ | Chicago Tribune So WBEZ had music in its sights for much of the year, but in the end, it couldn't pull the trigger. The Chicago public radio station (FM 91.5) has posted its new, news-and-talk schedule, and the surprise is that so much music survives, although very little of it is jazz. It was the threatened death of WBEZ's voluminous jazz programming that caused so much (well-mannered) furor when the plans were announced earlier this year. Not from me, I was totally ecstatic when I heard WBEZ was…

  • Geek Out! - Random Access Memories - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Squirrelly little guy flew with the dinosaurs | Chicago Tribune

    December 14, 2006 - By 

    Squirrelly little guy flew with the dinosaurs | Chicago Tribune A furry, squirrel-sized creature that soared through prehistoric skies–possibly even sharing the lofty view with birds' first ancestors–suggests that mammals took flight nearly 70 million years earlier than scientists had thought. The evidence comes in the form of a squashed skeleton found in Inner Mongolia that belonged to a tree-inhabiting creature born with a built-in hang glider–a fold of furry skin that stretched between its front and hind legs. This news item sent me Googling around to chase down an old, old memory from college: a professor of evolution who…

  • Episcopal - Flickr - Parish: Holy Moly (ECUSA) - Photos and Shutterblogs

    Station: Falling the First Time

    December 14, 2006 - By 

    This is an example of the kinds of things we're going to be moving from Holy Moly to St Nicholas. It's one of the Stations of the Cross that was made by one of our parishioners, and I think it represents Jesus falling the first time on the long walk to Calvary. If you look closely, you can see two honkin' big wood screws going right up His robe. Also, it's really battered and like all the rest, really dusty and cobwebby. The ladies from the Altar Guild no longer dust these, because they regularly got pulled from the wall…