Archive for June, 2007

A day out: What have we learned today?

June 13th, 2007 ~ Just a slice of heaven

(This is the kind of meandering post I get when I just mull things over. It always seems to end up in a series of questions, and so I almost deleted the whole thing, figuring that it wouldn’t be a worthwhile read for anyone. But in the end I decided not to, just in case […]

It is truly meet

June 11th, 2007 ~ Potpourri for 100, Alex

Today in my readings, I read:
The saints of God live even after their death. Thus, I often hear in church the Mother of God singing her wonderful, heart-penetrating song which she said in the house of her cousin Elizabeth, after the Annunciation of the Archangel. At times, I hear the song of Moses; the song […]

Saints of the Boxer Rebellion

June 10th, 2007 ~ Orthodox perspective

We’re experimenting during Orthros with including readings from the Menologian about the saints of the day, and since I think it isn’t the norm, people may not have gotten to hear this this morning. It touched my heart.
On this day we commemorate the Holy Sacred-Martyr MetrĂ³phanes Tsi-Chung, Priest of the Orthodox Mission in Peking; his […]

Churches and computer games

June 9th, 2007 ~ Pop goes the culture

(via Drudge) The Church of England is condemning Sony for a computer game in which Manchester Cathedral is the location for a big shoot-’em-up.
The Church of England accused Sony Corp. (SNE) on Saturday of using an English cathedral as the backdrop to a violent computer game and said it should be withdrawn from shop shelves.
The […]

Hacker alert!

June 8th, 2007 ~ Potpourri for 100, Alex

Our server was attacked by a computer hacker, and this blog might have been affected. Here’s Greg’s explanation for everyone:

Our web host, Dreamhost (www.dreamhost.com) experienced a significant security breach and our FTP login/password was among thousands exposed. The (rather enterprising) hackers managed to attach scripts to every blog we host (and we […]

Back “outside”

June 7th, 2007 ~ Travel blogging

Well, I’m back in the lower 48 states — or “outside”, as I’ve heard the Alaskans refer to it.
Things I’ve learned:

On an Alaskan cruise, the scenery is really the star. Our ship sailed down narrow inlets most of the time, and mountains rose up on either side of us. On our last day, the captain […]

Mushing it up old school

June 5th, 2007 ~ Travel blogging

I try to do one thing on a cruise that I’ve never done before and have some reason to think I’ll never do again. This time it was riding on a dog sled.
We did this yesterday in Skagway. It was one of the excursions that Carnival offered, and once I saw it I just had […]

What do Juneau?

June 3rd, 2007 ~ Travel blogging

We’re on Day 3 (or 4?) of our Alaskan cruise, so I knew this morning that we must be in Juneau. But we opted to get a windowless inside cabin on the ship, so I didn’t have any idea how it would look.
Turns out it looks like this:

It’s very pretty in a Great Northwest way […]


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