Mark Kille

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(Gustav Klimt, The Tree of Life)

Like the subject line says: no more posts here.

via on_another_lark:

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines

We would like to know who really believes in gay rights on LiveJournal. There is no bribe of a miracle or anything like that. If you truly believe in gay rights, then repost this and title the post as "Gay Rights". If you don't believe in gay rights, then just ignore this. Thanks.

Thanks to timprov, I am now reading Growing up Weightless by John M. Ford. Apologies to timprov (and no disrespect to Mike Ford), I'm not feeling it so far. I'm only about 30 pages in, but I'm having trouble following the story, and what I am following isn't so much my cup of tea: alienation, internal clique politics, and a mix of completely-explained, partially-explained, and unexplained technology. I can tell that it is a well-written book, from a craft standpoint, but...yeah, not feeling it so far.

I am ashamed that I didn't call my senators. I'd like to blame it on having been in Massachusetts for so long, where I knew my senators not only were going to take the progressive side, they were going to happily ignore everyone else. But I don't think I can.

It certainly seems real enough: http://www.lisjobs.com/jobs/item.asp?ID=31404.

What depresses me the most about this is the implication that the authorities expect the Guantanamo detention center to be around indefinitely enough to make this an actual position they need a permanent person for.

I'd actually like to do this, but I expect I'd run into trouble very quickly on the "appropriate/approved content" part of the job description, based on my initial thoughts on what those folks need in there by way of informational materials.

How White and Nerdy Are You?

Language Scholar You scored a 350 out of 400 on language knowledge.

Outstanding! You've scored higher than even most Anthropology students would. You are probably a Linguistics or Anthropology Professor yourself (or at least a Grad student). You may even speak several languages and are possibly working on a new one. If not, then you just have an endless drive to learn about the different cultures of our world. Regardless, you are one of the gems of any society, always promoting a deeper understanding amongst all people. Unless you cheated of course.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on knowledge

Link: The World Languages Test written by jeremie096 on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

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Colorado Welsh Society.

One of the fundamental ideas in the Incarnation is that Jesus was "like us in all things but sin." Which usually gets used to talk about how he got sad and mad and whatever, or how he used that bathroom and thought about naked folks, which is all true. But lately I've been thinking more about how it also means that he was *wrong* about stuff. It's not possible to be human and not get stuff wrong. Even *big* stuff. It makes me want to go and look closer at Jesus' pre-crucifixion and post-resurrection pronouncements. It also makes me worried that I'm stuck with another research interest: revelation, error, providence, and (of course) ecclesiology. Sigh.

From a variety of places, lo, a meme:

Go to this page and have it keep generating quotes for you until you find five that are personally meaningful to you in some way. I came across more than I expected--I really am not fond of quotes as a genre. Here are five in particular out of that more...

1. I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. – Jack Benny

2. One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. – Edward Abbey

3. No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear. – C.S. Lewis

4. I'm just trying to look at something without blinking. – Toni Morrison

5. America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better. – Anthony Walton

Via markgritter:



There's a couple there I'm not sure of. Did I actually use the metro in Stockholm? Hmm. But I'm pretty confident about most of them.

Being not a cynical person, sometimes I forget that it's not automatically clear that when I say that I am speaking cynically, it means that I'm being both speculative and disapproving about the matter in question.

(Also, I'm not sure how it is that I'm not a cynical person, given that I have such a grim view of human nature. Maybe it's that, since I don't attach undue nobility to the many good things people do do, I don't get disillusioned by the many bad things. Disappointed, yes. Horrified, yes. Disillusioned, no.)

We have some furniture in our rented house, now that the one of our pods we wanted delivered has finally gotten here after a week and a half delay. I'm sitting in a chair! Oh, the decadence.

Which states have state fossils.

Get on the ball, North Carolina and Minnesota and Rhode Island!

Today's "For Better or for Worse" makes me homesick for the South.

I have a new default icon. That is all.

From a reply of mine in a lefty Christian lj community:

"I mean, a church could refer to the Trinity as Big Daddy, J-Baby, and the Sacred Specter, and that formulation could be defended as not inaccurate, but it would still cause the rest of the Church Universal to give them some puzzled glances, to say the least."

The thought of a church actually doing this makes me unreasonably happy-amused.