Today was my last day at ProQuest. Looks like I’m done with web sites and back to the world of embedded software again. This is exciting; I get to go back to the world of “when men were men and wrote their own device drivers.”
We have a new breeding pair! Not that it will do any good yet …
Background: the spawning/rearing tank was getting far too gross with algae, and we were getting no success. So, my last brilliant idea was to place our pair back into the main tank, with the other four angels we have. Two are a purchased pair of white blushing angels, and the other two ar e we saved from the sucessful spawn we had earlier this year, one silver and one marble.
So, today we have new angel eggs — no surprise, Mom and Dad spawned not that long ago. But on closer look, our silver female laying the eggs was our second generation silver, not our original Momma. I guess we have that one sexed now.
Guess I’d better get busy on cleaning and restarting that other tank. 🙂
Since SiteMeter claims I actually have a handful of faithful readers (much to my shock and suprise), I suppose I should let everyone (OK, all three of you) know that the blogging has been and shall be slowing down for a bit. As if you hadn’t noticed already.
I was hoping this blog would encourage me to write more; unfortunately I find I’m spending the time surfing and not actually writing.
Amy Welborn points to this (Lilek’s) Bleat regarding the Opie & Andy stunt at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. It’s good. Read it.
Interesting fracas in St. Blog’s regarding Rod Dreher’s editorial “The Pope Let Us Down.” (online this Sunday) Short answer: I’m with Dreher — while I deeply respect His Holiness, I am utterly baffled (and yes, scandalized) at his seeming inaction in this crisis. Maybe His Holiness knows what he’s doing with this approach, but given how untrustworthy the American bishops have shown themselves to be, it’s hard to trust the Bishop of Rome on this, good as he is.
Wow, get crunched at work and then take a vacation, and the blogging goes out the window … so, just a few quick notes and updates:
Dale, don’t worry. Heather’s not just the brains, she’s the looks, too. Good thing you can cook. 🙂 Oh, and you can’t use “Rachel Anne” as a name, we’ve already used it for our little princess.
Hip hip hooray!! My old math teacher kicks butt in the Republican primary, which given how GOP Hillsdale and Branch counties are, pretty much assures him a seat in the legislature this fall. Congratulations, Mr. Caswell!
Roy Jacobsen posts an interesting question after a Close Encounter with a high school guidance counselor:
When did the goal of education change from “developing good citizens” to “create cogs for the machine of business”?
Indeed. Roy, I hope to get back to your thoughts on this.
“The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. “— G. K. Chesterton
Victor Lams has a first-hand report with photographs of Our Lady of Good Council in Plymouth, Michigan (a few miles from my own church), along with photographs of the church as seen from the vantage point of the protestors. Plus, a copy of this week’s bulletin and of a letter allegedly handed out by Ms. Granholm’s husband after Mass.
I especially liked his description of the OLGC neighborhood:
OLGC … is the Catholic Church in town where all the upper-middle-class and upper-class whitebread folks go. These are the folks who live in the subdivisions which surround the Church. And you know what type of subdivisions I mean, too: the ones which have popped up like mushrooms over the last 5-10 years; the ones with the $400,000-$700,000 homes which look like they were designed when Frank Lloyd Wright and Michelangelo got in a fight over who could have the last toke from the waterpipe: conflicting architectural styles clashing all about and all built as cheaply as possible by contractors out to make a quick buck off some dumb rich folks. Anyway, you can see how such ofay types would be offended by any sort of contraversy, much less those which offend their “it’s so closed minded to believe that your personal opinion is true,” sensibilities.Anyway, all those mean, nasty protesters Fr. Doc’s been telling you about? Well, before the 10am Mass this morning there were about 9 or 10 folks standing on the sidewalk by the Church’s two parking-lot entrances. Two folks had the more graphic signs but the majority of the signs were just words: “To be Catholic is to be Pro-Life,” etc. One guy had a picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe and another had a picture of Jesus praying in the garden. That was it. No magaphones, no chanting, just folks milling about with signs about 150-yards from the entrance to the Church.
It is to weep. Pray for the upcoming election in Michigan.
“Let all the babies be born. Then let us drown those we do not like.”
— G. K. Chesterton
Victor Lams reads Justin Raimondo. And he’s been commenting insightfully in St. Blogs, and I heard him call in to Kresta. And, he’s sort of local, too. Hi Victor!
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