on the edge

What do you call the blank spaces around the edge of the text in the Bible?

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Sylogism?

Mancave: the shed or mobile home that the guy lives in out back.
Pyx: a container used to transport consecrated hosts to (eg) the Hospital.

Pyx: Jesus’ Mancave?

Wayne and Shuster

Bright and early, as I turned on my machine, Peter IMed to links to a comedy troupe of whom I’d never heard: Wayne and Shuster. Evidently Canadian born and reared, they are quite funny in a Catskill Borscht Belt kind of way.

There are also Quite a few vids on YouTube, including “Rinse the Blood off my Toga” which Peter also shared with me.

I found them most enjoyable and, as Peter pointed out, they make no bones about assuming the intelligence of their audience. One wonders if a certain politician and/or her supporters would get any of the jokes - and would call it “elitist” humour because of its reach above their heads.

Pass me my shoot and a bowling ball.

[Exeunt with a flourish of Bat Boys.]

Trinity net Mashup

I found this over on the older pages from a year+ ago, and thought it geeky:

Internet : Father ::
Google : Son ::
Wikipaedia : Holy Spirit

I think, a year later, I’d reverse the last two: the Wiki is the incarnation of the Internet, the embodiment of net truth, as it were. It is Google that leads us into all truth. Ergo:

Internet : Father ::
Wikipaedia : Son ::
Google : Holy Spirit

Please note, that while Google returns searches from Wiki, the presence of the Wiki is not needed for Google to work, yet Google, drawing on Wiki, can be seen to manifest, in part, as a benefit of Wiki’s actions. Both Wiki and Google proceed from Internet in their own manner, ergo there is no Wikipaediaque clause in this symbol set.

Those Durn Christians - IV

Imagine a world where this advice was accepted by Christians as normal instead of idiotic.

LET THE “OTHER” SIDE HAVE “YOUR” STUFF! Jesus says, “If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well.” (Or, in the Geoff Mackey translation: “If anyone wants your pretty ecclesiastical trinkets, give ‘em the windows, too!”)

That’s right, you heard me: REFUSE TO GO TO COURT OVER YOUR STUFF. Ever try to love somebody while you were in court against them? I bet it’s damn nigh impossible. So don’t even try. St. Paul is pretty clear about this: ” Why not rather put up with injustice? Why not rather let yourselves be cheated?” And he said this “to shame” the Corinthians. So shame on us, if we go to court over our pretty neo-gothic buildings and our neatly-trimmed church-yards.

The irony is that Geoff has to make these suggestions because no one follows the Gospel. Orthodox, Anglican, Catholics… I can’t think of any “True Church” that isn’t in court right now.

Talk about legalism.

Crisis!

OK… it’s been a bad news day: bombs, crashes and the economy, plus Tornadoes Tear Through Downtown Atlanta. It’s kinda scary actually. There’s also the crane crash in NYC.

While we’re praying…

Let’s thank the NYTimes for catching this classic, “I just washed my hair” photo from the Omni Hotel in Atlanta:

OrthOCat Sez

Gadzooks!

In the NY Times today, breaking news - A Nation Briefly Without Starbucks :

At 5:30 p.m. Eastern time today, all 7,100 Starbucks locations in the United States will close their doors for three hours.

Immediate ramifications stretch far beyond the lack of strong coffee in dozens of permutations, though that was certainly the most important - the late shift may be running slower tonight.

(Point of order, NYT: “The Late Shift” is at midnight. You’re talking about Second Shift - which starts at 4pm and so should have lots of time to get coffee. Get your classism down, ok?)

Diebold Leaks Election Results!

Please note: this is from the Onion. Despite the fact that it looks like tomorrow’s headlines today…

ESL issues

Over at peer-see, we find a set of Building Blocks for teaching English Chinese children: but the blocks are made in China by native-born Chinese speakers. So they make some interesting choices…

(Props to BoingBoing.)