March 2009
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I haven’t posted many pictures recently, and the reason is that they never look very good as they come from the camera, and I spend a lot of time and drive myself a little crazy tinkering with them. For instance, it was quite foggy Monday morning, and I took a number of pictures when I…
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You may have heard this film recommended; I’m pretty sure it’s been mentioned at least once in comments here. It was very highly praised a year or two ago when it came out. Set in 1984 in East Germany, it’s about a Stazi (secret police) official who finds himself sympathetic to a couple on whom…
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…how bad an idea it is to forget the root password on an HP-UX system in trusted mode, the answer is: pretty bad. Not at all related, but just because I’ve been having a bad day, here’s some humor from xkcd (click to enlarge if you can’t read it): This one’s not funny but I…
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I’m not, in general, a fan of the poppy Christian-themed music known sometimes as contemporary christian music (CCM) or praise-and-worship music. I do tend to like it better than the Catholic Glory and Praise or Gather sort of thing, which falls into some queasy-making place between The Kingston Trio and Broadway. CCM/P&W tends to be…
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I’m adding John Schwenkler’s blog, Upturned Earth. And Amy Welborn is now blogging at BeliefNet, under the title Via Media, so I’m replacing the link to her old blog, Charlotte Was Both, with the new one. The post which is currently at the top there continues her wrestling with the recent death of her husband,…
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A Guest Post by Janet Cupo Janet and I were discussing, in email, the power of certain Christian symbols. I mentioned that in an unfinished (and probably never to be finished) novel I have a character who’s not Catholic but is quietly haunted by the image of the Sacred Heart as a symbol of the…
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And to emulate. I’ve put off doing this post since sometime this afternoon, wanting to say something meaningful in addition to linking to these two posts at Toby Danna’s blog. But if it’s possible to add anything useful to them, it would take more time than I have at the moment, so here they are:…
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“I’m not the panicky type.” Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Very touchingly, here—scroll down and read up to get them in the order they were posted. Also, as of the moment I’m writing this post, the latest one, Part 3, is not included in the label set: it’s here. A sample: During the time we were friends—two years and change—hearing him tell and retell the…
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