January 2006
Monthly Archive
The world as we know it is all wrong
This is like finding out that Abbot hated Costello, or peanut butter actually tastes awful in chocolate, or that hot dogs really belong at chess matches rather than baseball games.
In Keene, New Hampshire, Police and donuts don’t go together well.
Headline WLBZ 2 Bangor: Police Computers Clash With Dunkin’ Donuts System
KEENE, N.H. (AP) For Keene, New Hampshire police officers, getting through the drive-through at Dunkin’ Donuts can be quite a nuisance. — It turns out the officers’ in-car computers interfere with Dunkin’ Donuts computer system. Police using the drive-through have to disconnect their computer modems to avoid clashing with the restaurants’ system.
Flower power
Walking down the sidewalk across the street from the Dollar Bank main branch in Pittsburgh, there is an interesting double door. I don’t know what the doors lead to, as whatever used to be in that part of the building appears to have been closed for years. There are no signs for a business, club or office. It just is a door. But what a door. The double doors are made of metal (brass?), and each door has five of these “flower” panels.

Shadrach’s chair
In the middle ages, churches would have collections of relics that they would periodically display for a fee. These relics would be things like the bones of saints, or the tears of the Virgin Mary in a bottle. John Calvin noted that there were enough splinters of Jesus’ cross in Europe to build a whole city. There were numerous skulls of John the Baptist, and most of the apostles had multiple bodies.
But the other day, I saw that our church had an interesting relic sitting out back. Sitting in the center of the fire ring was Shadrach’s chair.

But it doesn’t gather on a rolling stone
Headline Washington Times: Moss thrives on screens
New Year’s Resolution
I will post something to me judice every day often occasionally in 2006.
(It is important to make your resolutions achievable.)