It's the Glorious 25th of May.

I'm going to go make myself a hard boiled egg. No truth, no justice, no freedom, no reasonably priced love... but I think I just may be able to swing a hard boiled egg.

I've told you before that Wikpedia is evil, right? It keeps making me think...

Current thought: With all the names that pop up in the Bible, why are so many of them not common in English?

So, the ETA set off a car bomb...

The person I stole this from asked if calling ahead of time makes the ETA polite terrorists.

I think the short answer would be "yes, and it makes them smart too, since going out of your way not to harm people is likely to make them think more favorably of you".

So, the whole "new baby" thing...

'dul and Jenn kinda sorta maybe want to continue the "angel" theme. They have an Angelique, they might get an Evangeline, it's all angelic, right? 'dul rather insanely thinks "Seraphim" is a good name for a boy, nevermind that it's a plural.

This has led to my mom repeatedly pointing out that the two angels mentioned in the Bible are Michael and Gabriel.

Once again, Wikipedia comes to the rescue. There are other angels mentioned by name (though not all of them in the Bible). Raphael (he's in the Bible) and Metatron come to mind. I won't be mentioning this to Abdul. He just might get it into his head that Metatron is a great name.

(And yes, this is what prompted my last Wikipedia related post. It's amazing what you find there. Though if I keep this up, I'll be memorizing the meaning of names again and trying to figure out what each part means, something that never ends well. I'd better find something new to read up on.)

Two articles on The Trouble in Kansas

One here.
One here.

Taken from metaquotes

I'm not agreeing with a lot of the commentors here. Yes, every half an hour is often. But! This kid is thirteen. It's not like she's four, five years older and still being treated like a little kid.

When I was thirteen, I could, if I checked with my mom, go into Manhattan, visit the bookstore by myself. (Or go elsewhere, I suppose, though I never wanted to). I had to call before I left the house, call or drop by when I got into Manhattan, call when I got where I was going - and check in every 45 minutes or so. On a payphone.

I didn't always, since this involved having enough quarters and being able to realize how much time had passed, but I was expected to make some sort of good-faith effort to follow these simple, simple rules.

Because I didn't want my mother to think I'd been kidnapped and killed, that's why. It's just not that big a deal.

On memes, and other stuff...

1. One often sees memes saying "Post this sentence in your journal if you, like the person posting this now, want to kiss/glomp/fuck/fuck in detail/write porn about somebody on your friends list". But where are the memes saying "Post a comment HERE if you want to do that to me"? That'd be funny. Um. On somebody else's journal, thanks.

2. People often ask for reccommendations of books/fics/fandoms. But, again, where are the memeish posts asking for books/movies/TV shows to stay far, far, far away from? That'd be considerably more useful, don't you think? Alternatively, where are the posts asking for books/movies/music/whatever that the poster would never pick up on their own, but which are still good? So you never read sci-fi. Here's your chance for people to suggest sci-fi for you! Expand your horizons!

3. All those people asking for random compliments. I actually understand why asking for random criticisms is less common (I mean, really!), but doesn't anybody have a perverse interest in what would come up?

4. Bad HTML needs to die.

So, wait, what happened?

I'm confused. They did flush the Koran now? They didn't?

(I will say that it's a bit rich to say that the charges are "fantastic" considering that we know American guards have done a lot worse.)

It's even more absurd when people like this exist.

Two articles having to do with journalism and Iraq...

One
Two

While I don't know how accurate either article is, I would not be surprised if they were absolutely true.

Another article from that series...

This one has to do with immigration.

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