Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in Progressive, other geekery on 24 August 2008 - 24 אב 5768
ESTERDAY’S New York Times has a really good article on the teaching of Evolution in Florida’s public schools: A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash:
Passionate on the subject, Mr. Campbell had helped to devise the state’s new evolution standards, which will be phased in starting this fall. A former [...]
Posted in other geekery, politics on 28 July 2008 - 26 תמוז 5768
T COMES To me today, as I’m driving up from North Carolina that the current political climate could be sketched out in Tarot cards, using both the esoteric and exoteric meanings. (This is your brain, this is your brain after 13 hours driving, any questions?) This is a work in progress…
The Fool, Barack [...]
Posted in other geekery, other paths on 19 July 2008 - 17 תמוז 5768
EDNESDAY We were discussing the use of images of Jesus - and the races depicted thereon. I realised two things: 1) the Renaissance cultures that produced the all-white Jesus never really expected to run into any other culture. 2) Traditional icons of Jesus (not the cartoony ones done in the last 40 years [...]
Posted in other geekery on 21 June 2008 - 19 סיון 5768
In Celsius, it is currently twice as hot where I am as it is where Todd is.
It is 20c here.
It is 40c there.
I note, also, that this math fails in F:
It is 68 here.
It is 104 there.
And once again, I see the complete connection between the Metric system and logic. And I recognise that [...]
Posted in Wandom Wabbits, other geekery, ramble on 19 June 2008 - 17 סיון 5768
While I was watching Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, I became obsessed with the Chinese name of one character - Bia Huli: the Jade Fox. I thought it might be nice to present a friend of mine (who rather likes foxes) with the Chinese Character for Fox. My first discovery was that the “Huli [...]
Posted in other geekery on 15 June 2008 - 13 סיון 5768
A radio episode of Gunsmoke, from October 1953, It was sponsored by Post Toasties™ which were tagged as the “heap good corn flake.” Made me giggle.
Posted in other geekery on 31 May 2008 - 27 אייר 5768
It’s easy to pin the Canon on Constantine (and/or the various early councils), especially if you refuse to accept the idea of “Development”. While I blame the triumph of the Roman State over the Church for many things - doctrine is not, per se, part of the package. We were discussing the development [...]
Posted in other geekery, politics on 29 May 2008 - 25 אייר 5768
One thing that came up often when I was Orthodox was the question of the possibility (at all) of Americans being Christians because of our fetish for individualism.
This has been coming up again in my classes on Living the Question because most of us see how to be community (even if we fail) [...]
Posted in Epicaricacy, other geekery on 29 May 2008 - 25 אייר 5768
Have we reached yet, or passed “Peak Oil”? Over at the Cutting Edge, a US Gov Report Lifts Lid on Peak Oil Supply Shock:
The report finds that the majority of expert projections expect the peak to occur without warning any time between now and 2040. Most disturbingly, the report emphasises that the US federal [...]
Posted in Egg Cracking, other geekery on 28 May 2008 - 24 אייר 5768
This conference At St Vladimir’s looks very interesting. I notice that while there are a lot of mainstream Orthodox, there is only two Episcopalians - and not very mainstream at that - both semi-Schismatic, I think.
It seems a curious melange of Orthodox, however: liberals and conservative.
Oddly for an OCA Seminary, [...]
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