A couple of times recently I spotted a familiar face playing a role in one or another favorite television shows. The first time, I knew in advance that they had a guest spot, and I didn’t recognize him. The second time, I had no idea (or missed the opening credits due to watching via TiVo. In the most recent CSI episode, “Living Legend,” I missed the first 10 or 15 minutes or so. I’m not sure I would have recognized Roger Daltry in the first two roles he played in heavy makeup, because I didn’t recognize him in the second…
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Holy Innocents, Pentecost Sunday Just another test of ecto, so I used a picture from the Holy Moly site. This time, I actually completed the steps, instead of being stumped by Flickr’s “Oops” page. The trick is to disregard the error page, and to continue with the steps in authorizing ecto by clicking the “Finished” button. Duh, but also, not that intuitive. The answer from ecto was of the “you stupid n00b” variety, but hey, if I land on a page that says “Oops,” I expect that the process has failed, not that I should continue with the next step…
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Standoff at Miami Papers Ends in Cartoonist’s Arrest – New York Times The cartoonist who took over the Miami Herald's office took a fake weapon and was eventually arrested. Maybe he should have drawn them a picture instead?
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State :: Rockford man tied to mosque break-ins After an extensive search, authorities have arrested and charged a 44-year-old Rockford man with two break-ins at a Schaumburg Township mosque this year, according to Cook County sheriffs police. Thank God. And Allah, the Merciful.
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Taken at Maroon Bells, near Aspen, Colorado. You know, I really need to upload the rest of my photos from the October road trip. At the moment, though, I’m just testing a new beta version of ecto, 2.2.0 beta 3, and it has a very, very cool Flickr plug-in that pulls photos in very nicely, and then it applies all my fussy drop shadow doodaddery. This process would be speeded up greatly (like, Warp 10, Mr. Worf greatly) if I could log in automatically to Flickr. However, I couldn’t log in to my own personal photos to pull them, although…
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Testing a few things… ecto with WordPress, specifically with the configuration I have with the WP-WYSIWYG Rich Text editor. It did not play well with the HTML coded tags in the last post, which I ought to have realized. So I will try adding the “quick tags” via ecto, which use angle brackets. Also, I want to see how it handles the little “insert current iTunes track played here” thing that ecto does. And it’s currently not working right, as it seems to remember the last thing tracked before I downloaded and installed the beta. It’s too late tonight to…
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Simply Recipes: Photography on Simply Recipes (tags: Food Photography Photoshop)
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Posted by a commenter at Father Jake Stops the World I've lost track over the years of the citation, but there was a book published in the last generation that reviewed growing congregations across denominational lines (including Episcopal churches). That study found five factors as important: 1) good preaching; 2) good music; 3) good adult Christian education; 4) opportunities for hands-on service ministries; and 5) small group interactions. (Interesting, considering the attention it has always gotten, that Christian education of children wasn't afactor.) As a frequent supply priest over the years, I've been really surprised and saddened at the…
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Holy Trinity Church Manila (Anglican/Episcopal) – Message from the Rector Former vicar of Holy Innocents. His departure was the beginning of our drastic decline in attendance. (tags: HolyInnocents Episcopal Church) Sears, Seattle company fight over wishbone rights | Chicago Tribune (tags: Sears) St. Helena Star .::. Local Reactions to ++KJS (tags: Episcopalian KatherineJeffertsSchori ++KJS) Simply Recipes: Thanksgiving Recipes Maybe next year (tags: Thanksgiving Recipes)
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Ship of Fools: Features WE DECIDED TO DO SOME technological digging to find out what had been going on. The fact that Freddie, our Mystery Worshipper, had given no name for the priest in the Abbey report was starting to look rather convenient. Had we been hoaxed? Via Dylan's Grace Notes… this reads better than an old-fashioned mystery novel.