Month: December 2011
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Twelve Days of Christmas
“The Twelve Days of Christmas†celebrates the official Christmas season which starts liturgically on Christmas Day and ends twelve days later on the Feast of the Epiphany. “My true love†refers to God, “me†is the individual Catholic. The “twelve lords a leaping†are the twelve basic beliefs of the Catholic Church as outlined in…
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Model Recreation of the Gory Snowmen Death Scenes from Calvin & Hobbes
El Jefe, this one’s for you!via email from Bill Slobotski, Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:46:38 -0600
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The speed of change in government
When I first arrived at the MN Department of Education, 5-Dec-2007, I was appalled that they didn’t have calendars setup as resources that you could invite to your meeting; they forced you to block the meeting on the room’s calendar, then setup the meeting with your attendees in your personal calendar.On October 3rd of this…
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Optimism
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Speak up
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.Dante Alighieri
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Action
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.Arnold H. Glasow
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Christmas Cards
I’ve sort of given up on mailing Christmas cards. We’ve just gotten out of the habit and if you want to find out what I’m doing, you can read this blog, or follow me on Twitter (@drwingnut). But if I did start sending out Christmas cards again, I might just send out the ones from…