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Blogtree aims to build a “genealogy” of blogs, based on who inspired who to start blogging, using a “parent-sibling” analogy to trace relationships. I’ve also posted this link to BlogRoots. (Thanks to Vix for the link.)
So who got you to start blogging? Me, I started in September 2000, after Raffy told me about it. That makes him my Papa. Here’s my “pedigree.”
Speaking of the endtimes, where exactly does the Bible mention “dogs and cats living together” as a sign of the end of the world? I can’t seem to find the verse.
Or have I just been watching too much Ghostbusters?
Key quote follows:
Stantz: “Real wrath-of-God-type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming from the sky! Rivers and seas boiling!”
Spengler: “Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes! Volcanoes!”
Zeddemore: “The dead rising from the grave!”
Venkman: “Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!”
Currently chatting with Brian of barukatash.com. Looks like I’ll be meeting him and his girlfriend for lunch here in DC tomorrow.
I was about to blog about the Witch of Endor and the apparition of Samuel to Saul, but David Heddle beat me to it, with some interesting points to make. Go read.
(I can already hear a thousand Star Wars fans gasping at the fact that “Endor” isn’t just a planet in Return of the Jedi.)
You know those people who go around pretending to be vampires? Well, it’s a bit of divergent cultural fanaticism that can go waaay too far. (via MeFi)
Leading a revolt against airport security. The “Sheep” left me in giggles. (via Instapundit)
Canada’s first space telescope, the Microvariability and Oscillation of Stars (MOST) Instrument, will be used to detect exoplanets. It has been nicknamed The Humble Space Telescope.
First target: 51 Pegasi A. I’m still skeptical at the concept of a planet-sized object doing a full orbit in 4.2 days.
I just found out that I’ve been using the word “vis-a-vis” slightly wrong. I thought it meant “with regards to,” when in truth its primary meaning is “compared with,” or “face to face with.” I hope I haven’t mangled it too much in day-to-day conversation.
This NextBlog random link is so fun. One can just click and click one’s way through the Fabric of Humanity without ever getting tired of it.
So you want to speak Canadian, eh? An instructive text in my endeavor to learn the accent. I actually have a lot of the inflection down pat; it’s just a matter of “oo”-ing my “ow’s.”