Entries by Josh
So this weekend, we took our 17-month-old daughter to see the new Tinkerbell movie. Now, the first two Tinkerbell movies are pretty decent fare. They take a character that’s been mired in gendered bullshit and do some interesting things with her. My favorite bit is that they make her a “tinker-fairy,” and she builds stuff. [...]
Today I got the following email from the America Speaking Out project. It thanks me for participating, lauds the importance of that participation, talks about how the website is getting a new feature, and encourages me to “keep speaking out.” I want to thank you for joining America Speaking Out. Our country’s strength has always [...]
A little while ago, I wrote a post asking what the GOP would do with the unexpected results on their “America Speaking Out” website. Today, I received the following email. It appears they’re going with the “cherry picking” option that was, really, always the inevitable result. America Speaking Out Community: First – thank you and [...]
A week ago, House Republicans launched a shiny website called America Speaking Out that would, they thought, throttle their populism into overdrive and allow the American People a forum in which to voice what was really bothering them. From the page: “America deserves a Congress that respects the priorities of the people. Unfortunately, Washington hasn’t [...]
As the image above rather clearly shows, Meghann has shaved her head! She’s donating the hair to Matter of Trust, which will use it to help clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Apparently human hair is really good at sopping up oil. When asked for comment, Meg said, “I needed a [...]
Which only goes to prove the well-known axiom: any religious ceremony can benefit from the addition of pyrotechnics.
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This thing? This thing is fantastic.
Prudence enjoyed this a little more than I was comfortable with:
Paraphrased from Mari our intern minister’s debut sermon: “Faith is trust that the power of love will make the world a better place, and God is a personification of that power.” I like this. A whole lot. Defined positively, forward-looking, self-aware, functional. I could say more, but it would be pages long.
I didn’t figure out what she was doing till like three-quarters of the way in.
Wow!
From The Lies of Locke Lamora by Mister Scott Lynch: “Conté, I do believe Master Fehrwight has just requested nothing less than a ginger scald.” Conté moved adroitly to fill this request, first selecting a tall crystal wine flute, into which he poured two fingers of purest Camorri ginger oil, the color of scorched cinnamon. [...]
This is what I want: an RSS Reader that aggregates content into the format of a forum. Each post is its own topic, and the reader keeps track of comments such that when a post gets new comments, it gets bumped up the list and lights up. If I’ve read all the comments, the post [...]
One, each person is worthwhile, Two, be kind in all you do, Three, we help each other learn, Four, and search for what is true, Five, all people have a say, Six, work for a peaceful world, Seven, the web of life’s the way, That will bring us back to me and U.U.! Sang this [...]
We’re reading The Lies of Locke Lamora here at the Robern House (well — Meg is rereading, I am reading), and when Meg came across the description of the Gentlemen Bastards cooking up some “sausages and pears sautéed in olive oil” she was consumed with a desire to try it out. This is what we [...]
Dear Prudence, This is what “beauty” was supposed to be back when you were born. I’m hoping, as you read this now some years hence, things have changed. I suspect, though, that less will have changed than I would hope. With any luck your mother and I will have shown you time and again that [...]
So today, President Obama made a statement about military commissions for detainees from Iraq and Afghanistan. You can, and should, read it here. It is three paragraphs long; it will take you five minutes to make yourself an educated citizen. So let’s summarize, shall we? Paragraph One: Military commissions are lawful and effective instruments of [...]
Prudence Emmeline Robern was born on Saturday, April 4th, 2009 at 9:45pm. She weighed 9 pounds 8 ounces and measured 21 1/2″ tip to stern. Her apgars (1-9 score of healthiness) were 8 immediately after birth and 9 a little while later. We are very happy and have been slowly recovering from the whole process [...]
This is what I want: I want to be able to subscribe to a dozen video RSS feeds, and then have an application or a website or whatever that gives me a listing of the most recent videos updated and lets me watch them like I listen to podcasts on my iPhone. I want to [...]
So, there’s a woman doing her Master’s thesis on fairy-tale princesses in literature and modern culture (and she has a questionnaire that you could fill out to help her), which prompted me to think about what sort of princesses I want to expose Squish to once she’s, you know, focusing both eyes at things. I [...]
Hey, this is a test post to see if my spiffy new WordPress-to-LJ bridge thingy is working…
Last week, we went to Super Peek! in Whittier with my parents and Meg’s sister and got a fantastic series of pictures using super-cool technology that creates a 3D model of your baby in utero and turns them into these great pictures.
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