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Saturday, May 18, 2002 |
Uhhh. My son stands up in his high chair and before I can run over there he does a sailor's dive over the side and lands right on his face and his entire body folds over his head backwards. He calmed down surprisingly fast after that and has a shiner to show for it.
I spent an hour looking at Minnesota Web Logs. I just went down the list. My favorites so far are:
11:33:13 PM 
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I went over to my father-in-law's house to help him install his new modem. In about 4 minutes I had the thing starting in safe mode. The new modem driver apparently over-wrote some important files. I was left with a blinking cursor on the screen with no error messages. I watched while he bundled his whole system up up to take to Comp USA to "Drop it on their feet and say 'Fix It' ".
10:56:27 PM
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Our new favorite playground is at Lake Calhoun at 32nd Street in Minneapolis. Mostly because of the view of the lake and the giant adult sized teeter totter, the likes of which I have never seen.
3:22:27 PM
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Had a great talk with a friend and fellow parishoner who has been part of every conference, committee, seminar, liberal and conservative organization you can think of within the church. He supports women's ordination with a qualification:
"Why ordain women if they just continue the power structure the way it is? The hiearchy that brought us the "Situation" is still in place with more people to enforce it."
Damn. Good point. I thought we could all pull on this one thread that could remain separate from all other issues. Still, I think getting this victory is step one.
3:02:57 PM
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Fixed my Bike Route Map so that the line of my route more closely follows the trails and roads I follow. I did this relatively quickly with a feature in ArcView called "Vertex Edit". Vertex Edit lets you grab parts of the lines or polygons you drew on a map and move corners or line segments, add new corners to a polygon and new segments to a line.
4:45:47 AM
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I got an email from Peter Nixon who edits Sursum Corda after I linked to him. (Right now he features a summary of the mail he gets about the women's ordination issue.) Really good reading. Visiting celebrity! He sent me these two links to more progressive Catholic web logs. Veni Sancte Spiritus and Shawn O'Neal.
It feels much better not to be challenged! This brings up the ongoing internal debate. Is it my duty to read the orthodox web logs? Should I try to understand where they are coming from?
I have always thought these folks could just play in their own strange sandbox. My guess is that they need some never changing doctrinal truth in their lives because they have never found it internally. Not to say I have it, but as the buddhists say, "if you meet the buddha on the road, kill him...."
4:31:15 AM
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Economics
This week there was a show on NPR talk of the nation about debt. The guests were pretty good, but the best was some guy from Alaska who called in and said, "All wealth is lent into existence." I love that. Our economy grows only when money is loaned and interest is paid. This is a lucky thing because, " workers can never be rich enough to consume everything they make because in addition to the cost of production, there must be profit." The difference between the cost of production and sale price is, as every Macalester graduate should know, Surplus Value.
4:10:48 AM
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