It's gonna be a long day -

Expect weirdness.

It's gonna be a long day -

Expect weirdness.

It's gonna be a long day -

Expect weirdness.

Here. Have music.

No, really. I don't think I've linked this stuff in for some time. Have at.

Harry Nilsson - 'You're Breaking My Heart'

(ghad, if there was a better anthem for today, I don't know what is....)

Leningrad Cowboys - 'So Happy Together'

(50 Drunken Russians CAN'T be wrong!)

Pickin' On Pickers - 'She Loves You'

(Yes, yes...I AM annoyed, why do you ask?)

Here. Have music.

No, really. I don't think I've linked this stuff in for some time. Have at.

Harry Nilsson - 'You're Breaking My Heart'

(ghad, if there was a better anthem for today, I don't know what is....)

Leningrad Cowboys - 'So Happy Together'

(50 Drunken Russians CAN'T be wrong!)

Pickin' On Pickers - 'She Loves You'

(Yes, yes...I AM annoyed, why do you ask?)

Here. Have music.

No, really. I don't think I've linked this stuff in for some time. Have at.

Harry Nilsson - 'You're Breaking My Heart'

(ghad, if there was a better anthem for today, I don't know what is....)

Leningrad Cowboys - 'So Happy Together'

(50 Drunken Russians CAN'T be wrong!)

Pickin' On Pickers - 'She Loves You'

(Yes, yes...I AM annoyed, why do you ask?)

...

...

...

QUICK! Who said dis?!

From the deepest part of yourself,
let love be born for the rays of the One that shine around you...
Let this come from your whole heart-the center of your life:
your passion, courage, and audacity-
and touch your whole subconscious self-
that instinctive soul within which scatters and gathers.

From this self liberate your whole animal energy and life force
to flood your entire grasping mind with love.

This is the most important command - the first creative movement that empowers all others.

The second is like it: Draw a breath of compassion for the one mysteriously drawn to live near you: love that friend as you love the self that dwells within - the subconscious that sometimes feels separate and intruding.

**crickets**

Okay, okay - I'm playing with you. But it is appropriate for the season - see, some smart penny went back to the original Aramaic and redid of bunch of translations. Still need a hint?

Here. King James Version:

Matthew 22:35-39 (King James version)

"Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master which is the greatest commandment in the Law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

If you're doing the translation work without being overly concerned about the socio-political affects, might you come up with much the same?

I love this kind of work - the KJV implies that this action is forced, somehow. That it's something that MUST come...forced, unlikely to occur at will.

When the truth might be something much different, and much more to my own experience.

As natural and normal as breathing and raising your face to the sunshine.

Yeah, I ordered the book. There's also another lovely one out there about Jesus in blue jeans that I'd recommend, too.

For extra credit: wonder how different things would have been had not so much emphasis on the ending of Christ's life been placed, instead of His life and teachings. Good Friday, indeed.

QUICK! Who said dis?!

From the deepest part of yourself,
let love be born for the rays of the One that shine around you...
Let this come from your whole heart-the center of your life:
your passion, courage, and audacity-
and touch your whole subconscious self-
that instinctive soul within which scatters and gathers.

From this self liberate your whole animal energy and life force
to flood your entire grasping mind with love.

This is the most important command - the first creative movement that empowers all others.

The second is like it: Draw a breath of compassion for the one mysteriously drawn to live near you: love that friend as you love the self that dwells within - the subconscious that sometimes feels separate and intruding.

**crickets**

Okay, okay - I'm playing with you. But it is appropriate for the season - see, some smart penny went back to the original Aramaic and redid of bunch of translations. Still need a hint?

Here. King James Version:

Matthew 22:35-39 (King James version)

"Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master which is the greatest commandment in the Law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

If you're doing the translation work without being overly concerned about the socio-political affects, might you come up with much the same?

I love this kind of work - the KJV implies that this action is forced, somehow. That it's something that MUST come...forced, unlikely to occur at will.

When the truth might be something much different, and much more to my own experience.

As natural and normal as breathing and raising your face to the sunshine.

Yeah, I ordered the book. There's also another lovely one out there about Jesus in blue jeans that I'd recommend, too.

For extra credit: wonder how different things would have been had not so much emphasis on the ending of Christ's life been placed, instead of His life and teachings. Good Friday, indeed.

QUICK! Who said dis?!

From the deepest part of yourself,
let love be born for the rays of the One that shine around you...
Let this come from your whole heart-the center of your life:
your passion, courage, and audacity-
and touch your whole subconscious self-
that instinctive soul within which scatters and gathers.

From this self liberate your whole animal energy and life force
to flood your entire grasping mind with love.

This is the most important command - the first creative movement that empowers all others.

The second is like it: Draw a breath of compassion for the one mysteriously drawn to live near you: love that friend as you love the self that dwells within - the subconscious that sometimes feels separate and intruding.

**crickets**

Okay, okay - I'm playing with you. But it is appropriate for the season - see, some smart penny went back to the original Aramaic and redid of bunch of translations. Still need a hint?

Here. King James Version:

Matthew 22:35-39 (King James version)

"Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master which is the greatest commandment in the Law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

If you're doing the translation work without being overly concerned about the socio-political affects, might you come up with much the same?

I love this kind of work - the KJV implies that this action is forced, somehow. That it's something that MUST come...forced, unlikely to occur at will.

When the truth might be something much different, and much more to my own experience.

As natural and normal as breathing and raising your face to the sunshine.

Yeah, I ordered the book. There's also another lovely one out there about Jesus in blue jeans that I'd recommend, too.

For extra credit: wonder how different things would have been had not so much emphasis on the ending of Christ's life been placed, instead of His life and teachings. Good Friday, indeed.

More -

I don't know much about who's coming to the Festival of Books this year yet - site hasn't been updated, but I do know one thing:

Wil Wheaton is coming.

Blogsphere neighbors. Coming to a college campus near you.

More -

I don't know much about who's coming to the Festival of Books this year yet - site hasn't been updated, but I do know one thing:

Wil Wheaton is coming.

Blogsphere neighbors. Coming to a college campus near you.

More -

I don't know much about who's coming to the Festival of Books this year yet - site hasn't been updated, but I do know one thing:

Wil Wheaton is coming.

Blogsphere neighbors. Coming to a college campus near you.

First flowers of the season -

Took a walk near the beach - and couldn't pass up a couple of shots of the sourgrass flowers -



( I cut because I care )

First flowers of the season -

Took a walk near the beach - and couldn't pass up a couple of shots of the sourgrass flowers -



( I cut because I care )

First flowers of the season -

Took a walk near the beach - and couldn't pass up a couple of shots of the sourgrass flowers -



( I cut because I care )

Quick -

What's this?:



Hints:

- The copyright is 1948, Homestead Welfare Club of Homestead, Iowa.

Is it:

- A junket that came with a new Amana Refrigerator/Stove/whatsit?
- A teaching book for a not-very-well-known branch of scouts?

Or is it a cookbook of recipes taken from one of the few successful communal societies with an interesting religious history? (For as long as it lasted.)

Yeah.

I admit, I collect cookbooks, and this one I grabbed in a second-hand store someplace without really looking at it...and thought it was probably the first guess. Then I began reading it when I got home (folks, fifty cents is NOT too much to pay for a mistaken identity), and was more than pleasantly surprised.

Californians tend to think we have the market cornered on religious nutcases, after all. Finding a record like this one that had its roots both in Germany and Midwestern US is intriguing.

I think of my SCA friends when I look it over these days. The recipes are staunchly German fare, with all of the names in both German and English. But they are scaled to serve armies. They also start at the bottom of the cuisine, including recipes for stock and "extracts" to be used in other recipes. It's also a record of how desperately simple and frugal the cuisine was as well - there's no goat cheese, sherry (few use any alcohol at all for flavoring), shallots, or any of the other Really Nifty Things people put in their dinners these days.

There are recipes using crumbs and dandelions, though.

A sample:

KIRSCHEN SAFT (Cherry Juice)

2 gallons cherries
Sugar - 2 cups per pint of juice

Wash and stem cherries. Mash in a large bowl and let stand for twelve hours. Then strain through jelly bag. To each pint of strained juice, add two cups of sugar. Put into preserving kettle and simmer for fifteen minutes. Fill into sterilized bottles and seal. To serve, dilute 1/4 cup juice with 1 cup water.

Quick -

What's this?:



Hints:

- The copyright is 1948, Homestead Welfare Club of Homestead, Iowa.

Is it:

- A junket that came with a new Amana Refrigerator/Stove/whatsit?
- A teaching book for a not-very-well-known branch of scouts?

Or is it a cookbook of recipes taken from one of the few successful communal societies with an interesting religious history? (For as long as it lasted.)

Yeah.

I admit, I collect cookbooks, and this one I grabbed in a second-hand store someplace without really looking at it...and thought it was probably the first guess. Then I began reading it when I got home (folks, fifty cents is NOT too much to pay for a mistaken identity), and was more than pleasantly surprised.

Californians tend to think we have the market cornered on religious nutcases, after all. Finding a record like this one that had its roots both in Germany and Midwestern US is intriguing.

I think of my SCA friends when I look it over these days. The recipes are staunchly German fare, with all of the names in both German and English. But they are scaled to serve armies. They also start at the bottom of the cuisine, including recipes for stock and "extracts" to be used in other recipes. It's also a record of how desperately simple and frugal the cuisine was as well - there's no goat cheese, sherry (few use any alcohol at all for flavoring), shallots, or any of the other Really Nifty Things people put in their dinners these days.

There are recipes using crumbs and dandelions, though.

A sample:

KIRSCHEN SAFT (Cherry Juice)

2 gallons cherries
Sugar - 2 cups per pint of juice

Wash and stem cherries. Mash in a large bowl and let stand for twelve hours. Then strain through jelly bag. To each pint of strained juice, add two cups of sugar. Put into preserving kettle and simmer for fifteen minutes. Fill into sterilized bottles and seal. To serve, dilute 1/4 cup juice with 1 cup water.

Quick -

What's this?:



Hints:

- The copyright is 1948, Homestead Welfare Club of Homestead, Iowa.

Is it:

- A junket that came with a new Amana Refrigerator/Stove/whatsit?
- A teaching book for a not-very-well-known branch of scouts?

Or is it a cookbook of recipes taken from one of the few successful communal societies with an interesting religious history? (For as long as it lasted.)

Yeah.

I admit, I collect cookbooks, and this one I grabbed in a second-hand store someplace without really looking at it...and thought it was probably the first guess. Then I began reading it when I got home (folks, fifty cents is NOT too much to pay for a mistaken identity), and was more than pleasantly surprised.

Californians tend to think we have the market cornered on religious nutcases, after all. Finding a record like this one that had its roots both in Germany and Midwestern US is intriguing.

I think of my SCA friends when I look it over these days. The recipes are staunchly German fare, with all of the names in both German and English. But they are scaled to serve armies. They also start at the bottom of the cuisine, including recipes for stock and "extracts" to be used in other recipes. It's also a record of how desperately simple and frugal the cuisine was as well - there's no goat cheese, sherry (few use any alcohol at all for flavoring), shallots, or any of the other Really Nifty Things people put in their dinners these days.

There are recipes using crumbs and dandelions, though.

A sample:

KIRSCHEN SAFT (Cherry Juice)

2 gallons cherries
Sugar - 2 cups per pint of juice

Wash and stem cherries. Mash in a large bowl and let stand for twelve hours. Then strain through jelly bag. To each pint of strained juice, add two cups of sugar. Put into preserving kettle and simmer for fifteen minutes. Fill into sterilized bottles and seal. To serve, dilute 1/4 cup juice with 1 cup water.

I promised -

That's David London, the teen townie from the base game, BTW.

And how long has Free Time been out?

I got my third lamp last night. Guess I might just be good at this, ya think?

I promised -

That's David London, the teen townie from the base game, BTW.

And how long has Free Time been out?

I got my third lamp last night. Guess I might just be good at this, ya think?

I promised -

That's David London, the teen townie from the base game, BTW.

And how long has Free Time been out?

I got my third lamp last night. Guess I might just be good at this, ya think?