China urges pre-flight toilet training to save fuel – Yahoo News BEIJING Reuters – A Chinese airline has calculated that it takes a litre of fuel to flush the toilet at 30,000 feet and is urging passengers to go to the bathroom before they board.
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I just received a bulletin in the mail for Holy Moly and St Nicholas – it’s the Advent newsletter, which is traditionally mailed out just before the beginning of the season by someone at St Nick’s. Something caught my eye, and I went looking for a definition. At the outset, we are going to seek to develop two strong liturgies — a more mainstream one i n the tradition of Holy Innocents and a more inculturated one using the platform of the current St Nicholas liturgy. Which of course, confuses me – there is no such word. Yet, the word…
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My great-niece Paige working on a batch of donuts to celebrate the first big snow. Ranny sent me a picture via cameraphone to let me know that it was Donut Day in their area – meaning that the first big snow of the season was falling, and that they were making donuts to celebrate. They got a foot, in fact, which definitely makes it The Official First Snow of the Season. This was a tradition that Mom started some time in the misty (or snowy) past; every year she’d try to make them better than ever. I never got the…
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Popping Off: Its up to us to put an end to the O.J. frenzy “If I Did It.” That’s a heck of a title for a ghostwritten book about how O.J. Simpson would have killed two people who many believe he did kill in 1994. One was his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, with whom he had two children, Sydney and Justin. The other was her friend, Ron Goldman. Both were found in a bloody heap in the courtyard of the condo complex where she lived. I’m having a flashback to a year that was a big turning point for me,…
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Holy Innocents, Pentecost Sunday Just another test of ecto, so I used a picture from the Holy Moly site. This time, I actually completed the steps, instead of being stumped by Flickr’s “Oops” page. The trick is to disregard the error page, and to continue with the steps in authorizing ecto by clicking the “Finished” button. Duh, but also, not that intuitive. The answer from ecto was of the “you stupid n00b” variety, but hey, if I land on a page that says “Oops,” I expect that the process has failed, not that I should continue with the next step…
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Standoff at Miami Papers Ends in Cartoonist’s Arrest – New York Times The cartoonist who took over the Miami Herald's office took a fake weapon and was eventually arrested. Maybe he should have drawn them a picture instead?
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State :: Rockford man tied to mosque break-ins After an extensive search, authorities have arrested and charged a 44-year-old Rockford man with two break-ins at a Schaumburg Township mosque this year, according to Cook County sheriffs police. Thank God. And Allah, the Merciful.
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Taken at Maroon Bells, near Aspen, Colorado. You know, I really need to upload the rest of my photos from the October road trip. At the moment, though, I’m just testing a new beta version of ecto, 2.2.0 beta 3, and it has a very, very cool Flickr plug-in that pulls photos in very nicely, and then it applies all my fussy drop shadow doodaddery. This process would be speeded up greatly (like, Warp 10, Mr. Worf greatly) if I could log in automatically to Flickr. However, I couldn’t log in to my own personal photos to pull them, although…