Just a simple blog of a Secular Franciscan trying to live with a Franciscan focus. (And one of these days I'll fix the template and add a Search feature. :-P)
I have a honkin' huge devotion to Joseph, Husband o' Mary and Patron of the Universal Church, so I like to observe all feast days -- current, historical, and ones celebrated in particular regions or by specific orders -- that pertain to him.
As part of that, I've got a calendar for his feasts in my Google Calendar-integrated Sunrise Calendar app, and the app helpfully reminded me today of the (historical) feast of the Flight Into Egypt.
When I saw the associated icon, I cracked up.
... They've got the 3 a.m. red-eye with kosher meal.
"I wanna be where the polish is, I wanna see, wanna see it spaarrrkle!"
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I love the inspired hilarity behind I Can Has Cheezburger?, so when I came across a site dedicated to translating the Bible into the language o' LOLcats, I thought it was hilarious. Check it out: LOLCat Bible Translation Project. (Looks like it ain't using the Catholic Bible, tho'.)
The first two are more like "Fun Finds of the Day", but, whatever. :-P Here we go ...
Cool Find of the Day #1: For everyone who liked playing with action figures as a kid, especially Star Wars ones, check out Yak's Pub, "Where the figures come to get served." See AT-ST's play soccer, Yoda on dial-up, and more. Hilariously clever.
Cool Find of the Day #2: Husband Mike came across these guys doing a real-life version of Mario Kart. We laughed so hard we were both cryin'. Especially clever: Adding in the race map on the right tracking the racers' progress.
Real Life Mario Kart
Cool Find of the Day #3: A former coworker of mine was looking for a time-tracking widget that runs on a Mac, and lo! Time Tracker 1.2.1 tracks "the time you spend on projects with this simple and easy-to-use application. Divide your work into projects, and split each into individual tasks." Nice of 'im to share this with me. :-)
Aww, geez, I was hoping to have something useful to say since I'm trying to do the whole NaBloPoMo thing, but alas, it's been A Long Day and I'm feeling under the weather. So, I'm thinkin' of callin' it a day and turning in early.
In lieu of anything worthwhile, here's a humorous video on what FOX's TV show 24 might've been like had it been set in 1994, in the days of 3.5-inch floppies, slow modem connections, and pagers. (Been there, done that, still have the floppies sitting on my desk.)
24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot What if Jack Bauer used AOL 3.0?
Cool Find of the Day: While browsing through all the spiffy Firefox add-ons, on a whim, I typed in "Homestar Runner" and amazingly found two widgets!
One is the super-cool H*R Toolbar, which is a hoot. And handy.
"The Homestar Runner Toolbar is an enhanced navigation bar. With a simple keyword entry, the multiple scrolls and clicks of the Homestar Runner website can be bypassed, and any file can be reached immediately. Simply type the toon name OR the toon's filename, and one click is all it takes. The Homestar Runner Toolbar also offers instant access to hrwiki.org, the web's most comprehensive Homestar Runner information database. Again, a simple keyword entry is all that's needed to find everything from fun facts to transcripts to Easter eggs - all in one source."
So, if you're a Homestar Runner fan and use Firefox, ya may wanna give this a spin. :-)
Oh, I think I hurt something laughing so hard over this ...
First, reading Jeff Miller's hilarious post, "Seal in Nun Freshness", had me in stitches. Then I read the following bit in the Comments section and flailed 'round to keep from fallin' off the chair:
"The mediaeval spirit loved its part in life as a part, not a whole; its charter for it came from something else. There is a joke about a Benedictine monk who used the common grace of Benedictus benedicat, whereupon the unlettered Franciscan triumphantly retorted Franciscus Franciscat. It is something of a parable of mediaeval history; for if there were a verb Franciscare it would be an approximate description of what St. Francis afterwards did." [G.K. Chesterton, A Short History of England]
I love that quote for many reasons, but I especially snorted over the "Franciscat" bit. Why? Check out my user names in the "On My Radar" section to the right --> . (Tho' I came up with the term because I'm a Franciscan who loves cats.)
Ah, the pictures alone made me hoot out loud -- check out The Curt Jester's take on the (misguided) "practice" of homeowners burying statues of Joseph in the hopes of selling their homes.
Praying to Joseph for his intercession in selling your house is perfectly OK, as is purchasing a statue and using that as an aid to prayer. But burying his statue -- upside-down, even! -- is just plain stupid and smacks of superstition.
Spiffyness! I recently stumbled 'pon Amateur Catholic and was charmed by their aim:
"... Home of the Amateur Catholic® bloggers -- or as we like to refer to ourselves, the B-team. We don't write books or do speaking tours. In fact, we barely do our jobs. That's not to say we're unambitious though... You see, this coalition is just the second phase our blogosphere conquest. We suppose you could think of us as amateur crusaders too.
"... If you are Catholic and a blogger, but you don't make any money off your Catholicism, you're automatically an Amateur Catholic®."
Of course, I had to apply for membership, and I've been accepted! Thanks, guys! :-) Will be adding a sidebar link for 'em in a bit.
