Batman and the Bomb

Some Beautiful Churches

In Nürnberg, Romania:


In Erie, PA



From Here.

An article on the History of Tipping

Here is an article on the history of tipping (at restaurants).

Church Fathers book sets

For those who may be interested, the Ante-Nicene Fathers book set, and the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers book sets (both volume 1 and volume 2) is available at WikiSource. [H/T Logismoi]

A cool robotics site

Let's Make Robots! is a neat little site for hobby robotics.

The Moment Linus Drops the Blanket

"The Moment Linus Drops The Blanket", an article by Fred Sanders at Scriptorium Daily.

It makes a good point about how the hope and joy of Christmas, the hope and joy of God the Word coming down and becoming man "for us and for our salvation", is the final answer to worries and anxieties in life.

Misc. Notes from working at a butcher shop

Jalapeno cheddar dip (big batch)

10 lb shredded cheddar
10 lbs mayo
1 oz cayenne pepper
1 oz liquid smoke
1/2 of a gallon can of jalapenos, drained and minced

Directions: mix all ingredients well

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Tip for smoking fish: To cure salmon, use tequila.

A List of Alternative teacher credential programs

This post will be a list of all the various programs I can find for alternative paths to acquiring teacher credentials. I will mostly be looking at paid internship positions, like Teach For America. This list is a work in progress.

Update 2008-11-21: Added "Teach NOLA"
Update 2008-11-18: List Started with TFA, CA, and MS locations

• Nationwide:
  
  
  • Teach For America
  
  


• California:
  
  
  • Project Pipeline
  
  
  • www.encorpsteachers.com>EnCorps
  
  
  • Oakland Teaching Fellows
  
  


• Louisiana:
  
  
  • Teach NOLA
  
  


• Mississippi:
  
  
  • Mississippi Teacher Corps
  
  

I just found out that the teacher who taught my multivariable calculus class in Berkeley, Vaughn Jones, is an important person in the development of knot theory.

Today was the first snow at the St James House here in Eagle River.

Jesus is a friend of mine

[H/T Orthodixie]

About my Grandfather

Some information about my Grandfather which I just stumbled across:

http://home.comcast.net/~iifurung/pamplonacagayan/history.htm#Curva

Look for "Ponciano Materum"

Alaska News update:

- I went to the Alaska state fair. Good food.
- I am still looking for a job.
- Since I still do not have a job, I get to do things like I mention below.
- A few days ago I spent some time picking wild watermelon berries and wild highbush cranberries (which I can now find easily due to its distinctive wet dog smell), and I tried to make jelly, but I failed, so now I have highbush cranberry syrup.
- I went to Wasilla, AK (the town where Palin used to be mayor) yesterday, to go to a fundraising dinner for an orthodox convent in Washington state. Good Greek food! And I got to meet some nuns from the convent, and I got to briefly hear one of my favorite speakers give a short talk. Oh, and to get there, I got a ride with one of my neighbors in his convertible mini cooper.
- Today I went to go pick wild Alaskan blueberries. I got about 2 pounds, I think. (I would have had more if I hadn't eaten so many while picking.) To get to the area where the blueberry bushes grow, I had to ride in the back of my friend's truck along a pothole-ridden road. My butt is still a little sore.
- After picking blueberries, I went to visit my priest's lakeside cabin. We had a little picnic there, and I got to go hunting for spruce hen with my priest's son and one of the hosts in the house I am living in. We shot, cleaned, and ate 4 spruce hens.
- I am in the process of knitting another Jayne hat. (the orange, yellow, and red one from portland.) I should be done by tonite or tomorrow.
- My church is amazing. The building has a wooden geodesic dome with fantastic acoustics. The choir is fantastic, and the people are very welcoming.

Ok, I think I need to finish my hat, and I need to decide if I want to try to make blueberry jelly.

A thought on how to fix education

Certificates of competency, not degrees

"Funny"

The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks

mvi_1813 - Riding the NOLA streetcar

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Setting up a HP Pavilion dv2416us to run Debian GNU/Linux

Hello,

I got an HP Pavilion dv2416us about a year ago, and set it up to run both the pre-installed vista, and Debian GNU. Here I just want to add a few comments about getting Debian to run well on such a computer, in case I need to set it up again in the future.

This won't have all the information needed to make it totally easy to use such a laptop, but I will try to put down what I remember. I'll try to add more later, if I can remember more.

• Repartitioning your hard drive through Windows Vista:
  
  
  • http://apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vista_with_linux_vista_installed_first.htm
    
  
  


• Installing Debian


• Getting your Broadcom Wireless card to work by using ndiswrapper
  
  
  • In my experience, it is easier to get your wireless card running on your laptop in Debian if you use ndiswrapper and the windows drivers than through the bcm... driver in the kernel.
  
  
  • http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/bcm4306-ndiswrapper-windows-driver-couldnt-initialize-the-device-344849/
  
  
  • http://www.stylesen.org/configuring_wireless_bcm4310_uart_card_in_debian_etch_amd64_using_ndiswrapper
  
  
  • Sometimes, when you boot up, though, the ndiswrapper driver will not load up correctly, and may freeze up the boot process. To fix this, I usually just ctrl-alt-del out of the boot process and restart.
  
  


• Problems with sound emerging out of the dual boot setup
  
  
  • If you at some point use your Vista partition, and then later boot into your Linux partition, you might find that your sound does not work in your linux partition. An easy fix to this problem (I don't know why this works, but it does) is to turn off your computer, and either reboot without the power cord plugged in, or, after turning off the computer, removing the battery for a few seconds (say, count to 10), putting the battery back, and starting up your computer.
  
  
  
  


• Fixes and tweaks:
  
  
  • You may have the problem that, when the X server restarts, either after ending a session or after coming back from screensaver mode, the cursor will disappear. To fix this, you can edit your xorg.conf file (usually found at /etc/X11/xorg.conf), and, under the "Device" section, adding the line
    
    Option "HWCursor" "off"
    
    For more info, see 'man nv' or see http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-linux&m=116983714009897&w=2
    

Yup.

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Some Interesting Trivia

Something I just learned:

The First Church of Christ, Scientist, building in Berkeley, near the Crossroads DC and right next to Unit 2, was designed by the same architect that did the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco (Bernard Maybeck). Indeed, the FCOC,S building is considered Maybeck's masterpiece and is a National Landmark.

I didn't know that before!