quotes

As we all know, things on the internet can be changed after the fact, so let's archive a few things relevant to the upcoming weekend:

What do you say to those who insist we cannot know the precise date of Judgment Day?

For one to object to May 21^st, 2011 one must have BIBLICAL AUTHORITY to do so. Objections cannot be based upon consensus, traditions or fear. God has given far too many biblical proofs for anyone to disregard May 21 simply because he or she does not like it. (familyradio.com/facts)

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I admit it. I'm a definite fangirl where Josh Ritter is concerned. I can thank Adam for turning me on to his music. There's something in his manner of storytelling — literate, thoughtful, playful, emotional — that delights me every time a new album comes out.

His songs aren't immediate, ferocious loves. They're albums you play several times as you absorb the melody, waiting for the full import to sink in, and then eventually there's a moment when the sense of what I'm hearing seeps in, and I hit 'repeat.' A few months later I realize the songs have slowly, gradually, seeped into the soundtrack of my life.

Jeff (aka @eaton) and Larry (aka @TheRealCrell) are two truly nifty and interesting people I’ve met as a result of being on the fringes of the Drupal community. I’ve been watching this exchange scroll by on Twitter with a mix of admiration, amusement, and need for aspirin. Will be completely impenetrable and boring to anyone who isn’t either 1) fascinated with religion or 2) fascinated with programming structures.

Moments like these are why my co-workers settle in to read my trouble tickets with amusement:

There are notes in the code that specifically indicate the maintainer hasn’t written all of the security-related code yet.  (Um.  WHAT?)  The integration issues wouldn’t grind our server to a halt if the module actually was respecting access permissions, because then the errors would only be happening for about 3 users.  This simply isn’t acceptable, so I’ve disabled the integration until I can get a better handle on what’s going on with this module.  Or stalk the maintainer.  Whichever.

…and that’s just one ticket.  It’s not even 9:30 yet.  I’m thinking it’s going to be a banner trouble ticket day.

I think my frustration with the modern-day obsession with princesses has been noted, right? I fluff my feathers and squawk a bit every time I see grown women sporting clothing that proclaims them worthy not by dint of action or personality, but just by the sheer fact that some bint with a title chose to spawn, and they are the undeservingly-privileged results.

I can understand it in children — fairy tales are fun when we’re kids — but entitlement stops being cute around age ten.  In adults, though?  Come on.  Princesses are born; women are made — made through the kind of boring and dreadful Growth Experiences our shrinks keep encouraging us to have.

Thus this article on CNN ("Enough with the princess nonsense!") made me laugh.  A quote:

CNN reported that Dr. Jerri Nielsen has died. If the name tickles a memory in you, she was the sole doctor in Antarctica when she diagnosed herself with breast cancer during Antarctic winter, requiring her to treat herself for breast cancer until a risky South Pole rescue mission could be undertaken as soon as winter ended..

A quote of hers struck me as particularly memorable; it put into words something I’ve been trying to say a long time but never formulated properly:

"The things that make you strong, and make you feel as though you’ve accomplished something, are not the easy ones; it’s the things you had to work and struggle through. Those are what give us our depth — that make us not gray and plain and nothing but give us depth and texture and longing."

Indeed.