Conservatives expected to split Episcopal Church - New York Times, 12/3/08:

"Why is England still considered the center of the universe?”

“It’s certainly going to be deplored by one part of the Communion and hailed by another,” Professor Steinmetz said.

"There are so many possibilities and geopolitical differences, it’s really hard to predict where this will go.”

I don't know where Bishop Ed Little is in all this.

via First Things.

Picture this ...

Jeff holding his iPhone running Shazam inches from his laptop and within 15 or 20 seconds, it identifies obscure songs,¹ like "I Don't Know How to Love Him,"² "Common People," "Spill the Wine" and "Just Can't Get Enough":

"What's really amazing is it stores a sample of the song, sends it over to China where someone listens to it, identifies it and sends the answer back."

There's no humor like tech humor.

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¹ Can't be too obscure with Wiki entries.
² A long-time favorite of mine!

cf. iPhone Shazam Commercial - YouTube.

Kenny had me watch this episode ...



via Crunchy Con

I suppose I'd mostly disagree with this comment:

"Yes, Apple people/NPR people/Quakers/Unitarian-Universalists/humanities & social science grad students/vegans=the Venn diagram pretty much is one circle."

Unless it's a progression over time, and I'm already past the first two ... or two and a half.

Catholic Carnival is up.

Yes, I'm in it this time.

A while back I asked a question¹ and might have just now gotten an answer ...

Although Tobit in the Revised Standard Version of 1957 was translated from the short version of the manuscripts Alexandrinus and Vaticanus, the New Revised Standard Version of 1991 presents the longer version of Sinaiticus, supplemented by the Vetus Latina.

So the revision of the New American Bible will be the first Catholic Bible with the text of Tobit governed by these Semitic texts from Qumran.

- Fitzmyer, more than ten years ago.

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¹ "My concern with the RSV is, being an older translation, whether it is sufficiently based upon the latest editions of original language texts."

All day Saturday, this was the scene in our kitchen. The stove stopped working on Friday evening while making dinner. I finished the cooking in the microwave. The stovetop still worked. Jeff was on the web instantly, following reset procedures, to no avail. The dealership wasn't open on Saturday, so Jeff rolled up his sleeves, got some printed directions and took the thing apart.

In the end, it was a simple matter of the selector having fallen apart behind the scenes. Not knowing this in advance, he admitted to taking just a bit more off than needed. And to ordering a $30 part online, also not needed as he was able to put the selector back together himself.

So by last night, I was cooking with it again. He claimed to have saved us $400 in a service call and repair. The thing is a few months out of warranty but I just wouldn't expect a stove like this to fall apart in just over a year. I'm very glad he got it repaired but I see now he had some help!

tags technorati : thermador selector switch error

When I moved to my laptop about two months ago now, I didn't realize that the junk mail filter was more aggressive. Even though lots of junk still gets through, I just noticed tonight - how often do you think to go through your junk mail folder? - that haloscan comments were going there along with photos I had emailed myself with my phone.

Like this picture ...


Taken at the Manasquan Reservoir more than a month ago. I took the boys there this past Saturday after tennis, all three of them. And I thought about snapping a photo of them with my cell phone, if I could get them to stand still, but then I was like, "Why, I haven't any luck lately emailing myself the pictures afterward."

Yet another mystery solved. Yup.

Chris loved the education center or whatever its called there. It's a cool place - I hope the county can afford to keep it open. Every time we visit, the boys find something different, something more "advanced" to appreciate about the natural environment of Monmouth County.