Puntang Dechen Phodrang Dzong in Punakha, or "Punakha Dzong" , Bhutan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The authors of this blog recently took two long-overdue vacations. Not together, you understand. We both happen to be of the conventional orientation, thank you very much. I went to Bhutan with family. And unless you failed in geography, you would know that it is a country, not a hill station in…
to this blog. Let’s see how it goes.
The organ, the Craighead-Saunders, is a unique instrument, not only because of its lovely sound, but also because it is a nearly exact copy of a late Baroque organ built by Adam Gottlob Casparini of East Prussia in 1776. The original stands in the Holy Ghost Church in Vilnius, Lithuania.
There is no other contemporary organ quite like the one at Christ Church…. More…
I KNOW, COMING BACK AS A CROW IS A LOT MORE ATTRACTIVE. If crows and buzzards do the same rough job—picking, tearing, and cleaning up—who wouldn’t rather return as a shiny blue
crow with a mind for locks and puzzles? A strong voice, and poem-struck. Sleek, familial, omen-bearing. Full of mourning and ardor and talk. Buzzards are nothing like this, but something other, complicated by strangeness and ugliness. They intensify my thinking. They look prehistoric, pieced together, concerned. I might simply say I feel closer to them—always have—and proceed. Because, really, as I turn it over, the problem I’m working on here, coming back as a buzzard, has not so much to do with buzzards after all….
Twitter is the only way information is getting out of Iran at the moment. Help hide Iranian twitterers. Change your location in Twitter to Tehran (UTC +3.5) and tweet your asses off!
Palm Beach bank teller allegedly stole nearly $20,000
Police say Siggins had gone through bundles of $100 and $50 bills used to stock his drawer and had replaced all but the top and bottom bills with singles.
Siggins, who began working at the bank in February 2008, told investigators he didn’t think he’d get caught.
Hello? Earth to Gregory? What about the people who got those bundles? Wouldn’t they notice?
What is agnosticism? | Between the rational and the mystical
Buddhism (and especially zen) can seem like a form of agnosticism. But there is a subtle and important distinction between agnosticism as it is usually meant (“appropriate intellectual reserve in the face of the big questions” says Nick Spencer) and the “don’t know” mind of zen.
Just a reminder:
Make sure you create unique passwords to help keep someone from breaking in to your accounts. Here are a few tips for creating your password, and keeping it safe courtesy of Google and y’r ob’d't s’v't:
Remember that a dictionary word can be cracked by a program running on an ordinary PC in a couple of seconds, with the right software (readily available on the Web). Use something like the first letters, capitalization and punctuation from a favorite quote:
Fazya,ofbfutcann,
(Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation,)
Use something less common than that, but you get the idea.
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Be out of circulation Friday through Monday. Have a great weekend!
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Former President George W. Bush and his deputies opposed putting mandatory limits on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases for years on the grounds that it would harm the economy; Congress is considering legislation that would do so but it remains unclear whether it can pass the proposal and enact it into law in the near future.
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