Most religions have a day of the dead, and today is that day for Christians. In this most secular nation, polls show few now know what Good Friday is for, this day for sorrow, for contemplating death, loss and endings. But here the usefulness of faith ends, for it is mainly the power of the […]
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Read the rest at the Guardian: Let me introduce you to the real Charlotte Brontë. She was not a wallflower in mourning. She always wanted to be famous; she pined to be “forever known”. Aged 20, she wrote boldly to the Poet Laureate Robert Southey, asking for his opinion of her talents. He replied: “You
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Me and Cyllia just spent eight hours formatting files that are now useless because corp. takes two days to give me permissions for the electronic folder I was supposed to already have access to but apparently don’t for some strange, cryptic, technical reason, and all of these files are due by COB tomorrow. These new
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Ide Cyan sent me an interesting note about recent events on Battlestar Galactica, which, unfortunatley, I haven’t been able to keep up on, as Jenn’s the one who tapes things and we’ve both been out of town a lot (I plan to catch up when it’s out on DVD). Ide noted that the two main
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The Wheel of Time turns, and…. Ha. Sorry. Couldn’t help it. You know, after decades and decades of listening to people harping on about women and their biological clocks and “all women want to get married as soon as possible” crap, it’s sorta funny to see the tables turned: “Dr. Harry Fisch, a urologist at
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What scares me so much about living here in the US right now, and dealing with all of the pseudo-religious hysteria is that when somebody tries to make a joke, it takes me way too long to get it. Here’s the brillant editors of Scientific American, from the latest issue’s editorial: “For years, helpful letter
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Have finally started studying for the LSATs in earnest, meaning I’ve been equally appalled at how incredibly poor my diagnostic score was, and interested in figuring out how to figure it out. It’s learning how to think another way, and it’s challenging, in its way. This is what I’ve been doing at work instead of