When I got confirmed, my sponsor gave me a beautiful golden cross. I suppose that was his duty as my sponsor; I think he knew at the time that my soul was out of his hands. In fact, I picked him because he seemed to be the kind of Catholic that, if I had to [...]

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I’m experimenting with some changes to the site.¬† Miko and I now have links to the books that we’re reading in the left sidebar, compliments of Library Thing. My list also includes books that are on “next read” shelf–only a randomly selected subset of a few dozen books are displayed, but LibraryThing caches it, so [...]

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As in stepping and hopping, not as in missing something.¬† Though if you try this experiment, you may find that you’ve been missing something. It doesn’t matter where you do it (e.g. in public or private), but skip for a minute or so.¬† Do you feel self-conscious? Giddy? Do you even remember how?¬† If skipping [...]

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