One Utah » Blog Archive » I Forgot to Eat Ice Cream: Thoughts on Community In the course of the post, I ran across a mention of a book I read about a year ago, when I was trying to figure out what people were looking for when they were thinking of joining any kind of social group. Bowling Alone, by Robert D. Putnam I needed the reminder. I've been meaning to mention this book to Steve, our vicar at church… which at least for the moment will be known as St Nicholas with the Holy Innocents, but it will…
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I've got a long, password-protected draft going. I'm not sure if I will publish it or not, as it's all about a training experience I'm currently having. It is not going well. It's not good when a class starts out with cartoon characters depicting change as the Big Bad Wolf, and with Lisa Simpson quoting the well – known but possibly Snopesian phrase that in Chinese, the words for change and opportunity are the same. I must be flexible yet strong like bamboo, and not unyielding and sharp like katana. Arrrrgh.
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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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We own a TiVo. We watch pretty much what we want to watch, when we want to watch it. I knew we were concentrating on just one of the "Big Three," with the rest of our time watching various cable networks, but I had no idea how cut and dried it was until I saved some links in my "Friends" plugin for WordPress. ABC.comNo shows watched. NBC.com No shows watched. CBS.com 7 shows watched Amazing Race (David leaves the room)CSI:VegasCSI:MiamiCSI:NYCriminal MindsNCISNumb3rs FOX: (meh on their news division)2 shows watched House Bones SpikeTV:CSI:Vegas reruns, if nothing else is on Food NetworkGood…
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Via Pazzo Blog » Blog Archive » Books you’ll never read: Instead of suggesting books you might like to buy, based on what you've bought before, Library Thing has the Unsuggester – plug in a book you've read or you own, and it comes back with a list of books you probably would not want to read. The Lord of the Rings (Collector's Edition) So I plugged in one of my all-time favorite books…and found that apparently, Mary Higgins Clark is the Anti-Tolkien.
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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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((deep, raspy Movie Guy voice)) In a world where evil trolls lie in wait, thirsting for blood, and cruel goblins lurk deep under the middle-Earth, a great treasure lies at the end of an arduous journey…guarded by… a dragon. They are not heroes… they are not mighty warriors. They are refugees on a quest to reclaim their golden birthright. But they've got a problem… thirteen of them. Bad luck. They're about to change their luck… by taking on one more traveler, who has no idea what fate awaits him… right after a wild, crazy, and quite unexpected party. Underground. Tom…
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Introducing WMPtunelog | minimal verbosity And now for the final little niggling thing – the applet that puts the currently playing track at the bottom of posts in ecto wasn't working after I built the new profile for WordPress. Let's see if it still thinks it was the last thing I played and posted about before the change in software from MT. UPDATE: I tried to re-install this plug-in, and now I've screwed up iTunes. Some, but not all of my music purchased online is no longer authorized, and although I have access to the iTunes store, some tracks won't…