According to Edward Hasbrouck’s excellent travel blog:
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A friend passed this one along: “When marriage between gays was by rite” Boswell’s book, The Marriage of Likeness: Same Sex Unions in Pre- Modern Europe, lists in detail some same sex union ceremonies found in ancient church liturgical documents. One Greek 13th century “Order for Solemnisation of Same Sex Union” having invoked St Serge and St Bacchus, called on God to “vouchsafe unto these thy servants [N and N] grace to love one another and to abide unhated and not a cause of scandal all the days of their lives, with the help of the Holy Mother of God…
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Yep, it was just barely 50 degrees today, so my wacky co-worker wore shorts. Nobody took much notice, as we were getting killed (office slang for long, time-consuming calls at a time when we have a lot of calls on hold). As she was heading out the door, someone else noticed and started to say “Are you….NUTS?” but she cut them off with a cheery “It’s 50 degrees!!” and bopped on out the door (not unlike the way PuppetAngel bopped across the office to watch “Smile Time.”) She is really quite goofy, that one. Heart in the right place, but…
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Thanks to a handy link via Making Light: here’s the full text of the Vanity Fair article profiling John Ashcroft, we can all read about how frelling scary the man is. It’s a likely copywrong… but for the right reasons. And I intend to buy the magazine while it’s still on the stands, anyway. Since the link may be dead soon, here’s my personal Scariest Thing About Ashcroft: Some 15 years ago, Missouri state senator Harry Wiggins, a Democrat and the spokesman for a bipartisan group trying to get funding restored for a Kansas City home for AIDS patients, met…
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In the past couple of days, I started fooling around with Bloglines – not to replace Blogrolling for keeping track of various sites I visit, but to make it easier to read more sites, more quickly. I felt a bit of concern over the fact that I basically had two identical blogrolls – and wondered if I’d commit a horrible blogging fox paws by dumping the duplicate entries in the Blogrolling list without first making the Bloglines one public. With me so far? Show of mice? Anyway, there were a few daily-read blogs that weren’t available for some reason via…
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Okay, this is rich. I received my first comment spam today – a penis enlargment ad – on the entry where I describe events surrounding the death of my dad Sorry, chaps, your target market is a stiff, thus having no need of a bigger stiffy. (I can just imagine my sister trying to explain this to my mother. More likely, I can just imagine my sister blowing this one off, as it were. Heh heh heh)
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Edwad Hasbrouck mentions something that might have an impact at work: TSA finally starts talking to travel execs about CAPPS-II These same privacy clauses in travel management contracts were almost certainly violated when airlines (including jetBleu and Northwest), CRS’s (including Sabre), and third-party PNR processing firms (including Airline Automation — now part of the Amadeus CRS — and Acxiom) shared PNR data with government contractors and agencies for profiling tests. As recognition of the issue grows, so does the likelihood that all these companies handling, and secretly disclosing, reservation data will face breach of contract lawsuits from corporate travellers, in…
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Last night after our adventures at the Botanic Garden, we needed something to eat, fast. So we went to Sushi Station, which filled the main criteria: it was nearby, fast, and cheap-ish. Unlike another sushi place we’ve been to with a train motif, this one has a refrigerated case covering the “sushi line,” and plates of nigiri and such travel along a belt made up of interlocking discs (each one has a bite taken out of it, to allow for the next disc upline to rotate around the corners). It’s good, it’s quick, it’s pretty inexpensive — and then I…
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Polar expeditions have always fascinated me – here’s a new one:Serco TransArctic Expedition Hmm. Makes me want to dig out my old Victory Sings at Sea CD and play “The Northwest Passage.” Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea; Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage And make a Northwest Passage to the sea. (Wow, the CD is back in print! Excellent, excellent, excellent stuff.)
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Even error messages are humorous over at Orkut…. Bad, bad server. No donut for you Unfortunately, the orkut.com has acted out in an unexpected way. Hopefully, it will return to its helpful self if you try again in a few minutes. It’s likely that the server will behave this way on occasion during the coming months. We apologize for the inconvenience and for our server’s lack of consideration for others. I didn’t do anything to bust it, honest.