Well, not a conference call service exactly, but a cross between a self-administered conference and old-style three-way calling on vitamins. (Boy in the Bands is steroids-free.) It is a product offered by my calling card service and I would like to give it a real workout before promoting it on this blog. It is inexpensive […]
Once you install any operating system, you’ll want to adjust it to your liking. Here are a few of the things I changed first.
More software, of course
There are two ways to add software using a graphical interface, and the easier of the two may be found at Applications | Add/Remove. You will be prompted […]
Hubby and I live behind a Whole Foods so we could buy our recycled paper consumer goods there, right? Except I get them next door at the CVS, a major drug store chain, ubiquitous in Washington, D.C.
Why? Their basic (not the premium) house brand toilet paper and paper towels — the later I don’t use […]
Reader, I married him. Er, installed Ubuntu 7.04. (Jane Eyre I’m not. Nor either Bronte sister. Nor indeed Kate Bush, though they’re all wonderful.) I don’t bother dividing the hard drive to allow another operating system — called “partitioning” — though readers who need Linux and Windows might want to do so; indeed, I […]
Did you see the recent episode of Independent Lens entitled “China Blue” on PBS? It is the undercover story of real Chinese garment workers who make blue jeans for the American and other markets. The workers make pennies to make our clothing while their bosses, the distributors and the marketers grow rich. Paid $100 for […]
Friend and colleague, the Rev. Adam Tierney-Eliot, commented following my post on “unsettled” ministers:
What StephenR said makes sense to me. Scott, what you need is a union.
Funny. I’ve written about ministers’ union before, but was thinking the same thing about ministers actively seeking settlements. For those unfamiliar, this is the dry season for looking […]
There were two interesting items on the Congregations Working Group Agenda (link to PDF copy) for the Unitarian Universalist Association Board of Trustees, scheduled for consideration on April 20.
Dual Congregational Membership
Status of congregations that are not member congregations but are in relation with the Association
Each item was […]
What are your favorite, must-have but inexpensive (say, under $5 or $10 per user) office supplies? The kind of thing few (if anyone else) use but you can’t do without?
Mine is printer-fed 2-inch tab inserts. Made for 5-cut hanging file folders but there are tabbed binder dividers that use these, too. Cleaner than writing them […]
I’ve been using Linux since September 9, 2003: first Mandrake (now Mandriva), then MEPIS, then Ubuntu through a few versions, over to Fedora Core (formerly the personal version of Red Hat) because I couldn’t get Ubuntu to identify my Ethernet card on my eccentric little machine, and now I’m writing this on Ubuntu 7.04, codenamed […]
While I don’t believe that Free Church ministers (including Unitarian Universalists and United Church Christians) attain an ontological state through their ordination that fundamentally distinguishes them from the laity — made priests forever — neither do I really feel “that Pastor Jones is Mr. Jones on the train between his calls” as the old chestnut […]
