Daily Archives: June 17, 2024

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  • Principles, not personalities

    [This post is continued from here, where-in I kvetch and kvell about all kinds of things, and reveal myself to be a grumpy old grouch]. I visited the Meetinghouse and found the pamphlet I needed to prepare for the committee meeting Monday night. The pamphlet, a structured discussion of Quaker marriage has a lot to [...]

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    Props to TechCrunch

    Phil Sim says, at Squash… Full credit to Mike Arrington, who has done an absolutely amazing job. But it would be wrong to view Mike as a blogger. He’s run TechCrunch as a professional, media business since the very early days. He’s placed a big emphasis on marketing, he’s built a community via events and [...]

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    Digging a hole to China

    Tried this once.  Only got down about five feet.  Could have done better with a backhoe, I suppose.  Thanks to ze Frank’s “if the earth were a sandwich” project, I discovered how lucky I was.  My hole would not have hit China, not if I kept on a steady course straight through the center of [...]

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    Marriage under the care of the Meeting

    Two years ago I finished a two year stint as Clerk of my Monthly Quaker Meeting. We’re a large meeting in a university town and among our members there is a wide range of beliefs. There are Catholics who attend our meeting because of the peace and community they find here, Jews, Buddhists, fallen Lutherans [...]

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