• Geek Out! - Home Improvement

    8pm Saturday 29MAR08: Lights out, Earth!

    March 28, 2008 - By 

    Seen various places, but most recently at The Lead: Many people around the world are planning on observing an hour of “darkness” tomorrow night as a way of participating in a global earth hour. The event was created by the World Wildlife Fund in 2007.From the Earth Hour Website: “Earth Hour was created by WWF in Sydney, Australia in 2007, and in one year has grown from an event in one city to a global movement. In 2008, millions of people, businesses, governments and civic organizations in nearly 200 cities around the globe will turn out for Earth Hour. More…

  • Food, Glorious Food - Moblog

    Dinner 2nite: Cracked Potatoes

    March 26, 2008 - By 

    My sister-in-law made these the other night for Easter dinner, and the “whack-a-mole” method of dealing with the potatoes seemed like a good stress-buster. Besides, we have a long-handled meat tenderizer with a flat side, which worked extremely well at smacking the potatoes (we didn’t cut them in half, as they were smaller than the ones the other night). However, the cutting board did not survive; it already had a couple of splits and was not very high quality, and it split right down the middle as we whacked away at the spuds. It did work really well to hold…

  • Episcopal - Music

    Reviewing Mass

    March 25, 2008 - By 

    The movie reviewer for SFgate.com reviews a recent Easter mass he attended, and this paragraph jumped out at me (yes, because I’m in favor of traditonal liturgy and liberal theology): Mick LaSalle I was talking to a former Episcopal pastor yesterday, and he told me that if he were to do it all over again, he’d go entirely the other way. Bring in organ music. Incense. Choirs. Maybe choirs singing in foreign languages. Things to make people feel that they’ve entered another world — a mysterious place where God dwells. Instead what you get in church these days feels 30…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Laundry run: I hate this cart

    March 22, 2008 - By 

    UPDATE: This is how I do the laundry run for the local homeless shelter: with a homemade cart somebody made that fits in the elevator. The bags of dirty laundry have to be stacked and wedged carefully so they don’t fall off the sides, as I hate making more than one trip between the laundry room and my car. I completed the run yesterday evening, after making the swap on Easter Sunday at the hospital (I was in the neighborhood). Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Laundry run: I hate this cart By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 22 Mar…

  • Blogs Wot I Read - Geek Out! - Religion

    Pharyngula: EXPELLED! from Expelled

    March 22, 2008 - By 

    PZ Myers got pulled out of the line for a private screening of Expelled, the creationist “documentary” by a rent-a-cop at the producers’ request. But his guest, Richard Dawkins, was not recognized. IM N UR THEETRE, MOCKIN UR DOGMAS! See all 1200+ comments for more enjoyment of the delicious irony at Pharyngula: EXPELLED! As seen various places, most recently OneUtah UPDATE: A video of a post-expulsion discussion between Dawkins and Myers is here. [kml_flashembed movie="http://media.richarddawkins.net/video/2008/RDPZweb.mov" width="426" height="260" wmode="transparent" /]

  • Episcopal - Parish: Holy Moly (ECUSA)

    Fat Liturgical Dancer: Small Churches Suck

    March 22, 2008 - By 

    I can’t wait to repost this over at the Holy Moly blog… perhaps later in the liturgical season of Soccerates, when attendance drops and we combine two services into one over the summer. I already sent a link to Father Steve, who really loves the upholstered chairs we have at St Nick’s and performs a kind of meditative dance when he lines them up in new and interesting patterns before services.  He may get a kick out of this: Fat Liturgical Dancer Now that every church is certain that the only path to success is by having a Mega Church,…