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Ian’s fast shoelace knot has been making the rounds of the blogosphere again, appearing on Lifehacker and elsewhere. I mentioned it last September.
What I didn’t do then is actually learn it. This time, I did. It’s _much_easier than it looks in the diagram. I’m not terribly facile with tying the knot yet, but so far it lives up to the claim of not loosening, and it’s much easier to untie than my previously typical double knot.
Here’s a Google cache of a now-deleted thread from the Rapture Ready message boards (End Times Events > End Times Chat.) Dave Ex Machina has excerpts with screenshots.
Is it time to get excited? I can’t help the way I feel. For the first time in my Christian walk, I have no doubts that the day of the Lords appearing is upon us. I have never felt this way before, I have a joy that bubbles up every-time I think of him, for I know this is truly the time I have waited for so long.
Ready, waiting and excited here! Still telling others whenever possible that the rapture could take place at any time because this world is in such a big MESS and evidently it goes through one ear and right out the other
My brother has witnessed to some of his friends over and over. He finally prayed to God and asked Him to spare their lives when the rapture happens. Dan has told them, “When the rapture happens, go to my house and read everything I have in this folder.” They roll their eyes, but…………I’ll bet they run to find that folder when the rapture happens!
I am excited beyond words that the struggle of this life may be over soon and I can finally be FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
I too am soooo excited!! I get goose bumps, literally, when I watch what’s going on in the M.E.!!
If He tarries, I will just have time to get my hair and nails done (you know let all I come into contact with know of my Bridegroom and what He has/will do). So i am all spiffied up for Him when He does arrive to take me home. No disappointment, just a few last minute details to take care of to be more pleasing to look at.
Lock pick guns can quickly and easily open most locks (but they’re noisy.) Here’s how to make one with objects you have lying around the house (ok, they may actually be assembled within your computer and not lying around) or with an Oral-B Hummingbird flosser.
Unbalanced drive shafts. Is there anything they can’t do?
For info on doing it the old-fashioned way, consult the document which was formerly called the MIT Guide to Lockpicking.
Project Gutenberg’s Top 100 books. There’s a lot of good stuff there.
Daniel Pinkwater is serializing his new novel, The Neddiad — the first chapter is up now, and there’s to be a new chapter posted each Tuesday starting August 1.
There are several new ebook readers here or forthcoming: the iRex Iliad, the Sony Reader, the Hanlin V2. Every so often I check out MobileRead Networks for the news on them.
The e-book reader industry currently seems to believe they’ll live or die based on the availability of current books in DRM formats. My biggest interest in one would be to have a better way to read the things already available digitally. (I’ve got no interest in paying the same or close to the same price for a current e-book as I would for the physical book, a clue I hope they acquire at some point.)
My friend Barth’s going to be in town to hype his new novel, The Patron Saint of Plagues — details at his site and Borderlands’.
I’ll be there. If you can get there, you should, too.
According to this article on Keira Knightley:
She explained: ‘I did one magazine and found out you’re not actually allowed to be on a cover in the US without at least a C cup because it turns people off.
‘Apparently they have done market research and found that women want to see no less than a C cup on other women. Isn’t that crazy? ‘So they made my t*** bigger for that as well.’
When it was current, I saw a bunch of approving comments on Barack Obama’s speech advocating not being so darn persnickety about keeping religion out of school and government.
I’d been meaning to comment on it, but my response has been pretty much summed up by Patrick Nielsen Hayden’s.
We’ve had a Jewish family run out of a Delaware town for contesting the blatant harassment and Christian proselytizing the children were facing in public school. The freakin’ Air Force Academy isn’t looking any better than that Delaware school.
In disagreeing with Obama, it’s not that I’m afraid that what he proposes would lead us down a hypothetical slippery slope. The problem’s that we’re already way, way down that slope, and have a lot of uphill climbing to do.
Here’s a real toughie:what with defining this as a freedom of religion issue, how would you Christians crying oppression feel about any religion other than yours having the “freedom” to be represented in public schools and government? A Satanist student group using school resources to gather. Civil functions beginning with a Pagan invocation of the spirits of the Four Winds. A Muslim military commander harassing reports for being of a different religion. Got any problems with any of this?
Me too. Thing is, I don’t find the situations improved by filling in a different religion.