I have been using Workrave at Day Job. This is a little application that “frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses, rest breaks and restricts you to your daily limit” of keyboard and mouse use.
At the rest breaks, a Laura Croft-like figure walks you through stretching exercizes. The breaks were a little annoying at first, but […]
When I was chasing down Google hits for the church unionizing post, I came across a blog that had a clean and refreshing them. Followed the theme credits and found themes available at plaintxt.org, run by another guy named Scott.
I could very easily see this blog morphing into something more like Simplr. You may use […]
I coulda swore I blogged about this a couple of years ago, when the idea of United Church of Canada ministers organizing under the Canadian Auto Workers made the newspapers. But I can’t find the post so I guess I didn’t. The ministers then raised a cry about how the felt misused and the church […]
I’ve been watching for various stories and resources related to trade unions, including finding and identifying US-made union-made goods which should appeal to different people for different reasons across the ideological spectrum.
I had been putting them under “sustainable living” but there are enough of these articles to justify their own entry as “unions and unionism.” […]
To remind y’all, the half-million US citizens of the District of Columbia have no voting representation in Congress and have to step very carefully in our own political processes because the Congress can swoop down and kill any laws we pass for ourselves. (Which is why it took ten years to get the 1992 domestic […]
In Washington, D.C., when you ride a bus, you’re likely to see a letter-sized poster with a biblical passage taped up. They’re always the same (italic bold Times New Roman, landscape) and the passage comes without commentary, making me think this is the work of one person or group. This is a part of the […]
Working on another entry, so pointing it out to harness the collective consciousness. This is one where a lot of perspectives can help round it out.
Middle judicatory
While PeaceBang (and her excellent Beauty Tips for Ministers) is on vacation, I thought I would point out this excellent page highlighting the deep mistakes some real church outfiting catalogs make in choosing models . . . . Or choosing designs for that matter.
Taking the Episcopalian: Model Behaviour
Demas, of live from thessalonica, asks the doleful “What happened?” question with respect to the Universalists. He intimates a too-close relationship to the Unitarians is the problem but the Universalists had enough institutional problems (ministerial shortages were chronic, for instance) and an inflated sense of self (propagated today in outrageous estimates of Universalist strength) long […]
I’m getting pretty chunky, which is a wound to my pride and health and — oddly enough — travel sensibility. I like to travel light. I can spend a week about anywhere (if I’m not preaching) with a small carry-on and a modestly packed laptop case. (With no lap-top.) Hardly revolutionary, but a developed skill […]
