September 2009
26 posts
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
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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... →
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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...