I was Googling around looking for something else when I ran across a familiar place – my old Episcopal parish in Seattle. The church was damaged in the Ash Wednesday earthquake of 2001, and they’ve started major repairs… and they’re blogging it, of course! Woo, you guys. Good for you! Best of luck.
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I haven’t mentioned it here previously, but things aren’t so good just now at my beloved Holy Moly. We’re just… so small, and we’ve been in a budget crunch since forever. There’s other stuff – just “stuff,” okay? that we either have to solve or work on. On the other hand, new people trickle in the doors most weeks (some really great new people!), but the “old hands” are exhausted and tempers sometimes fray. It seems like we have committee meetings every other week now. We’re all working on ideas for short-term and long term goals, and tomorrow a meeting…
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I’ve been getting a number of hits all year on an entry from our Britain trip that tells about visiting Westminster Abbey in London and about the tombs and monuments of various royals, literary figures, and scientists that are found there. In short, I was getting a hell of a lot of hits on the phrase “Isaac Newton Tomb” – famous scientist and historical honorary member of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. An online chum who claims to be a dead mathematician and philosopher would also qualify if someone would only nominate him. Don’t be fooled by the…
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Okay, they’re serious. This is unprecedented in the long history of fan “save our show” campaigns: Fans of UPN’s soon-to-be-canceled Star Trek: Enterprise formally announced that three anonymous contributors have pledged $3 million to a fund to finance a proposed fifth season of the show. The TrekUnited.com Web site reported that the promised contribution will come from “investors” in “the commercial space flight industry.” It’s one thing to take out impressive ads in national magazines or pull off clever ploys for garnering the attention of network suits (such as the time fans of Roswell sent thousands of bottles of Tabasco…
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Holy crap, the recaplet for last night’s episode is already up: From our old friend LAX, the teams take off for Lima, Peru. There is much talk among some of the other teams of the presence of Rob and Amber, whom I will tell you right now I personally like and don’t care who knows it, and do you know why? Because every time they grin broadly, it chaps the shit out of Lex somewhere in the world. At any rate, sand-pit digging reveals that there are a few teams who will need to pay a bit more attention to…
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And they’re the first team eliminated from TAR7 – I’m disappointed because they both spoke pretty decent conversational Spanish and they were funny – on the zip line task, Ryan looks into the camera with his belly hanging over the rigging straps and says “We’re about to step off the side of this mountain, and I believe we’re the first to load test the line.” And with that, Chuck hit bottom at the beginning of the first zipline. Then from the bottom Ryan observed “What do we do now, sit and wait for Fat Boy to come down?” It was…
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I read a recap of the TAR6 finale (which aired while we were in Maui) so I knew who won. Feh. Kris and Jon was robbed! Chicago, I hate you! You are not my city, and you never were. Oh, why is it that cities where I’ve lived or near where I live screw the teams I love and let the teams I hate win? Seattle, you screwed Ken and Gerard in TAR3, and now this. I’ve never lived in Phoenix and so I didn’t really care who won (TAR4, Chip and Reichen) and I can’t stand Dallas so naturally…
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Mena dismisses the skepticism as misguided, insisting a blog doesn’t have to be profound to be worthwhile. She believes most blogs are simply a convenient way to keep in touch with a small circle of family and friends, even if the content seems inconsequential. You know it’s a cultural phenomenon when the Daily Harold (spelling intentional) finally gets around to covering it. The story mentions the people that got Six Apart‘s Moveable Type started as a blogware giant, such as Joi Ito. My blog? Inconsequential. But I have fun with it.
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As US coast-to-coast crimewaves go, it is not in the league of Bonnie and Clyde. It lacks both violence and avarice and is further hindered by an overabundance of pre-publicity. Undeterred, a couple of students from Cornwall are intent on making American criminal history by spending their summer breaking as many US laws as possible. Starting in the liberal state of California, they hope to evade the attention of local police officers when they ride a bike in a swimming pool and curse on a crazy-golf course. In the far more conservative – and landlocked – state of Utah, they…
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I’m going to do a little hacking around with the “books” portion of the left column. I’ve grown tired of seeing the “Unreadable Culls” titles and will repurpose the category to “Soon To Be Read.” As you might guess, I picked up a few books on the trip, which will eventually released via Bookcrossing I got a “buy 2/get 3” deal at the Maui Borders, plus I got another book at the Borders Express next to the Kihei Safeway. Read Be Cool, by Elmore Leonard A fast, fun read. Not as original as “Get Shorty”, of course but still breezy…