• I hate Daylight Savings Time.

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  • About the catastrophe in Japan. As I mentioned before Ash Wednesday, I plan to stay offline on the Fridays of Lent, and so I didn't hear much about this yesterday. Checking in this morning, it seems things are worse with that one nuclear reactor where the backup generators were flooded. May God be with and…

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  • A few things

    This looks good: what a great bunch of guitar players…though I'm not so sure about the material. This is sad; no one who's seen The Wire can forget Snoop. This is good to know, if you're a Chrome user (which I am). This is funny, and probably won't be seen by the people who could most…

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  • Taken on Monday evening (I think) a bit after sunset. The colors aren't correct–there should be less pink–but still sort of pretty.

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  • Ash Wednesday

    I'm going to be offline all day tomorrow. And also on the Fridays of Lent. I'm taking the day off work tomorrow, too, in hopes of getting a better start on Lent this year. This is Mardi Gras country, and most places close on Tuesday and are open on Wednesday, including the Catholic college where…

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  • Sunday Night Journal — March 6, 2011 Elizabeth Goudge should have been an Inkling. At least from the literary point of view she fits perfectly with those gentlemen who gathered in Oxford at the Eagle and Child, and I’d like to think they would have enjoyed her company, and she theirs. But in any case…

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  • Janet sent me this link with the observation that "he sounds more orthodox than I thought he would." Indeed he does. I'm not the biggest U2 fan, though what I like of their music I like a lot, and have assumed for a long time that their much-reported Christianity didn't amount to very much any…

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  • Weekend Music http://www.youtube.com/e/nm3dwZaveD0     http://www.youtube.com/e/dIw9waVI-m8   (Thanks to Janet for reminding me of this show.)

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  • The Extreme Remedy

    It does not suffice to endure suffering in order to acquire experience. This demands reflection about oneself and the essential conditions of life….it requires the tranquilizing of the soul in God; it takes love, without which suffering embitters and confuses the soul instead of enlightening it. Suffering is an extreme remedy which either cures the…

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  • Don't recognize the words? Neither did I. Find out what they mean here: an extremely cool animation showing the relative sizes of physical things from very smallest (if quantum foam can be called a physical thing) to very largest .  They're grouped by size, not by distance and position relative to each other–I started at the galactic…

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