October 2009
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Architecture - Last Call for an Elegant Rail... →
September 2009
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John Keats
stfrancis:
BRIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature’s patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors— No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, ...
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Yowsa!!
from the prophet Isaiah
stfrancis:
On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples
a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine,
of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
And he will swallow up on this mountain
...
WatchTweeting About Twitter Being Down May Cause World to End [PARODY VIDEO]
Hah! Actually, I was kinda tweeked that it was down.
Thomas Palmer | Create Your Badge
“Urban Dictionary is the slang dictionary you wrote. Define your world”
– Urban Dictionary, September 4: shoulder tapping
E.g. — carcolepsy — a condition affecting buddies on a trip who fall asleep as soon as the car starts moving, providing no company or driving help.
“Joe slept the whole way here, I think he suffers from carcolepsy.”
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Community Support Grows for Preserving Clark... →
bicommunitydevelopment:
Written by Bill Hart
The Clark County Courthouse.
Small-town Missouri is rife with town squares in which reside many picturesque county courthouses. In counties where low population…
This hits close to home for us Ohioans, having spent years working toward the preservation of the Seneca County Courthouse in Tiffin (previous post).
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“Japan’s incoming first lady not only believes in UFOs, she says...”
– Miyuki Hatoyama’s ‘UFO’ Experience
A triangular UFO? C’mon, everyone knows that they are circular in shape. This woman’s story is obviously false.
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“Naturally, most executives worry more about sinking the boat than missing the...”
– Recession Leadership: On Sinking the Boat, Missing the Boat, and Rocking the Boat - Bill Taylor - HarvardBusiness.org
Granted. But why I am always seasick?
“Bones mend and become actually stronger in the very place they were broken and...”
– Stephen Fry on Corporal Punishment - Excerpt From “Moab Is My Washpot” by Stephen Fry
“The recent assault on the Mona Lisa with the unlikely weapon of a teacup raises...”
– Mona Lisa Teacup Attack Joins Loony Tradition of Defiling Art - Bloomberg.com
Here’s my favorite part of the article, a bit further down:
“Admittedly, the man who threw acid over Rubens’s “Fall of the Rebel Angels” at the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, in 1959 specifically denied that he...
“A recent article published by the Standard Social Innovation Review comes as no...”
– Starving Nonprofits | The Generous Life
Since it takes money to spend money on overhead - how is this a cycle? Seems more like a one-way dead end to me.
BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Just a Minute →
I remember the first time I heard a program on BBC Radio 4 - I rushed home from the office and shared “Just a Minute” with my brother and sister. They were somewhat non-plussed; I was enthralled. I still am.
“My brain is often a messy mash-up of a million minuscule things - from...”
– I want to be a Diplodocus. - GalionLive!
Why do I get the feeling that my daughter is going to end up a writer?
“412 PreservationOH
1153 Followers
599 Friends
969 Tweets
Since 02-07-2008...”
– Ohio Twitter Directory - Page 5
According to the Ohio Twitter Directory (now there’s a must read), we’re up to #412 of the most followed Twitterers in the state. Not exactly riveting info - but on a happy note, we are the most followed statewide or national preservation organization in...
honest-anglican:
dear friends,
i extend a sincere welcome to my fellow brothers and sisters not only in the episcopal church and the anglican communion, but also to the wider christian community. it is my hope that this blog (and the conversation that will hopefully emerge) will build the Body of Christ in love. Amen!
This evening, i wish to share some reflections on being anglican.
i grew...
August 2009
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“The Eiffel Tower was designed thanks to a competition. Losing entries Included a...”
– Twitter / The QI Elves
Oh man. I want to see the designs of that guillotine! (via ringlunatic)
Fort Ann Real Estate - 124 LAKE NEBO RD, Fort Ann,... →
OK, where did I put that spare $700,000?
My family’s ancestral homestead - “Podunk” - is for sale .. the older part was built by a Great-Great-Great Grandfather about 1870 as a wedding gift for his daughter and one of my Great-Great Grandfathers. A Great Grandfather and Grandfather were both born here. You can click for a virtual tour.
By the way - it has a wicked awesome...
OK, recent post got me in the mood for a short...
“Mr. Conaway was one of the founders of Preservation Ohio, a nonprofit group...”
– toledoblade.com —
I’m pleased to have been quoted in today’s Toledo Blade - Franklin deserves all the credit possible on this project.
Who Cares about the Episcopal Civil War? |... →
“Watching the Episcopalians fight amongst themselves is like watching a boozy family brawl at a genteel country club. Onlookers continue to hope that someone—grandpa or junior—will finally say what he’s really thinking and make a headline. Or that someone will step in and dramatically reconcile the warring factions, thus making the family happy once again. No such luck. Like most...
“But, for the time being, here we all are,
Back in the moderate Aristotelian...”
– [minstrels] Christmas Oratorio — W. H. Auden
One of my favorite tiny bits from one of my favorite poets. Auden is pretty f-ing fantastic.
Celebration Time...
I wrote and posted this on MyHometownOhio this past Wednesday.
The first time that a post appeared on MyHometownOhio concerning the Seneca County Courthouse was on February 16, 2007. The post featured a video which had been placed on YouTube which lamented both the condition of the Tiffin landmark as well as its endangered status.
Over the two and a half years which followed, this blog...