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Random thoughts, 3-27-05
Have you noticed that there has been this strange prevalence of Jesus movies lately?
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March Madness has lived up to its hype. Two OT thrillers in one day!
Just don't ask about my bracket.
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A short rant on biased announcers. They're blind! Okay, in the Nova-UNC game, there was a controversial traveling call on the Nova player with nine seconds left. Billy Packer was like, count the steps with me folks. I'm expecting a steady "One, two, three." Nope, Packer went "One, twothree." On the replay he did it again! UNC bias I tell you, UNC bias.
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I visited the Machu Picchu exhibit from Yale's Peabody Museum at Gilcrease, one of the local museums. It's fascinating to ponder how ancient societies built such technological wonders.
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On the anime front, Slayers is picking up. It's good, but still a bit too random.
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When I was younger and going to church, there would be one Sunday out of the year where an inordinate amount of people would exclaim to me "The Lord is risen!" I'd reply, "Yeah" or "Okay". They'd give me one of those strange looks, like I didn't know what was up. Isn't that what we learned every Sunday?
A little later, my sister informed me that I was supposed to respond "The Lord is risen indeed."
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March Madness has lived up to its hype. Two OT thrillers in one day!
Just don't ask about my bracket.
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A short rant on biased announcers. They're blind! Okay, in the Nova-UNC game, there was a controversial traveling call on the Nova player with nine seconds left. Billy Packer was like, count the steps with me folks. I'm expecting a steady "One, two, three." Nope, Packer went "One, twothree." On the replay he did it again! UNC bias I tell you, UNC bias.
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I visited the Machu Picchu exhibit from Yale's Peabody Museum at Gilcrease, one of the local museums. It's fascinating to ponder how ancient societies built such technological wonders.
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On the anime front, Slayers is picking up. It's good, but still a bit too random.
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When I was younger and going to church, there would be one Sunday out of the year where an inordinate amount of people would exclaim to me "The Lord is risen!" I'd reply, "Yeah" or "Okay". They'd give me one of those strange looks, like I didn't know what was up. Isn't that what we learned every Sunday?
A little later, my sister informed me that I was supposed to respond "The Lord is risen indeed."
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A couple of friends from a few years back were part of the Russian orthodox church. Of course, their calender works differently, so their easter falls on a different date, usually later. And they told me that that phrase and the response were a big part of their easter celebrations.
One of their friends is a Russian orthodox monk, who lives in a catholic convent (because, you know, there's too few orthodox monks in the Netherlands to fill a convent). As a result, he celebrated easter on the western date together with the rest of the convent, while the rest of his congregation celebrated easter on the eastern date.
He had called them on the western easter, and greeted them with the traditional phrase: "The Lord has risen!", to which my friend responded: "And I'm sure he'll do it again later, for us!"
Guess you had to be there. :)
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