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When I've got nothing else to do, I co-write an informational question and answer column in The Plains Wheeler-Dealer. We get some pretty interesting questions from time to time, like this one:
Erna Persnuckett, from Sunken Flat, Nebraska, writes, "Will eating more during my daughter's pregnancy give her a bigger baby?"
First of all, Erna, how much you eat will not in any way, shape, or form affect either your daughter or her baby. It's nice that you are empathetic and want to be involved in the pregnancy, but …
Oh, wait! I'll bet you meant if your daughter eats more, will she have a bigger baby! I'm glad you asked that, Erna. No, eating more will not give her a larger bambino, but it will give her a larger fanny. I know this from personal experience. Seriously! Let me tell you a true-life story.
My first child caused me a lot of motherly grief, and it started when she was born. I doubt if anybody ever had a harder labor than I endured, and, to top it all off, after hours of agony I ended up having a C-section. When Child #2 began to make her presence known, I was quite confident that this time around the delivery would be a cakewalk — nice, tidy little C-section, and voila! Baby would appear on the scene with a minimum of trouble.
Not so, I found out during my initial visit with the doctor. Times had changed, and "once a C-section, always a C-section" was no longer the standard procedure. "We see how beeg baby ees," he intoned in broken English. "If baby smaw, you have no'mal deleevery."
"You've gotta be kidding me!" was my inward thought. "I'm not putting up with this, just because some insurance company doesn't want to pay for the full treatment."
I came up with the bright idea of overeating until that baby became a respectable size. I figured an eight or ten pounder ought to convince Mr. Obstetrician that going through a regular labor was out of the question. I did not consult him or Pregnant Mom-O Magazine to find out if my scientific hypothesis would hold water. I just proceeded to eat – not for two, but for four.
By the fifth month, the doc was getting a little nervous. "You put on nine pounds dees mont'. Don' you t'eenk dat ees a beet much? Where you stuffin' eet?"
By month #9, I was between thirty-five and forty pounds heavier than when we started the whole adventure, and I intimately understood how beached whales must feel. Two weeks before delivery, I got the good news: he didn't think we ought to attempt "no'mal deleevery."
The upshot of the whole story is that the baby weighed under six pounds, the C-section wasn't the piece of cake I remembered from the first pregnancy twelve years before, and I had a powerful lot of tonnage to lose.
So, Erna, tell your daughter that if she is eating more in hopes of breaking the Guinness Book of World Records for the biggest baby on the planet, it won't work. The baby might end up a dainty Thumbelina, and your daughter could end up in the book for other reasons – like taking up more territory than anybody else in Nebraska.


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Adult Swim's Robot Unicorn Attack Heavy Metal is all your childhood (or adulthood, as the case may be) fantasies wrapped into a game for your iPhone. Note: I don't have an iPhone, but I will play Robot Unicorn Attack Heavy Metal on your iPhone if you have one. The game is simple: You're a robot unicorn galloping along and you have to avoid plummeting to your death to the tune of "Battlefield" by Blind Guardian. When you see a glowing pentagram, you pierce that sucker with your horn and earn bonus points. The longer you stay alive, the more points you get, kind of like being at the DMV or the post office.
Robot Unicorn Attack Heavy Metal is a badder-ass version of the original Robot Unicorn Attack. The latter is pink and purple and full of rainbows, and the soundtrack is Erasure's "Always." It's a toss-up as to which band is fruiter, Blind Guardian or Erasure. That got me to thinking of other songs that would be appropriate for Robot Unicorn Attack to adopt.
Robot Unicorn Attack Bobby Brown Ghostbusters 2: You're a unicorn running through the streets of New York City in the '80s, while dodging killer slime balls. Gotta gotta take it home.
Robot Unicorn Attack Scottish Twee Acoustic: In this version, the unicorn doesn't run so much as skip and frown. You don't have to jump over anything because life's too hard as it is.
Robot Unicorn Attack Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves: You pull the covered wagon of a hard-luck traveling circus family through a medieval town while the locals throw rotting fruit at you. Dodge enough fruit and you can cast a magic spell on the locals that makes them wear Bob Mackie costumes forever and ever.
Robot Unicorn Attack Bedroom Freak Rock: Instead of running along a road or sky or whatever, you trash a bedroom while wearing tiny running shorts and your mane is tied up in a little pony tail. Because you look so awesome, you just gallop around the bedroom and be awesome.

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Understanding risks and how to avoid them was top priority for the team at Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA), but gathering information from the nine hospitals, 36 long-term care facilities, and community health centers across the region was challenging.
When the Internal Audit and Quality Improvement and Patient Safety team at WRHA first began rolling out Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), they identified over 270 risks, 40 risk themes and the 15 top risks for the region. At the time, their risk management data was being tracked in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
According to Christy Rogowski, Improvement Manager and Diane Jansen, Director of Audit and Risk Services at the WRHA, they started noticing roadblocks to the risk management work they were trying to carry out: Excel was not web-based and, as a result, it was difficult for key players across the region to access the program. Manually updating the spreadsheet database was also complex and time-consuming for the central team.
"It was something that we were struggling with, how do we continue rolling ERM out within our organization with the tool that we currently have?" says Jansen.
For WRHA, the answer was implementing RL6:RiskRegister to consolidate and bring renewed focus to risk mitigation across their facilities.
According to Rogowski, there were three main benefits that coincided with launching:
- Being able to launch with enterprise risk champions — or as Rogowski calls them, "super-users" — that helped facilitate roll-out.
- The ability to keep data consistent across the region and to centrally store it and access it.
- Customizing the reporting system to provide staff with new, effective options.
Now, WRHA has the flexibility to measure and manage risk across the enterprise or within individual facilities — without the hassle of spreadsheets. According to Rogowski and Jansen, the next steps are to launch Risk Register to new sites and programs.
To learn more about the insights WRHA gets from their customized Risk Register, watch the full on-demand webinar. Or, learn more about Risk Register and the rest of the RL6 Suite.


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Browser compatibility can be hard to manage sometimes. It seems that the website of capitalone, a credit card company in the US has some difficulties to make a website that runs on Iceweasel, the fork of Firefox from Debian. This post if not a discussion if Debian users should switch to Firefox but rather to explain how to use capitalone website with Iceweasel.
When you go on the capitalone website with Firefox or Internet Explorer, the homepage looks like the following with the login widget.
However, when trying to access using Iceweasel, the login widget does not appear and you cannot sign in. At first, this was really inconvenient because I was not able to use the website. I did not understand at first and this is just after browsing the website that I understood the root cause.
In fact, when going to some other page, it looks that the website is not sending data when the request is sent by special user agents. And it sounds like Iceweasel might be one of them. See below how the credit card login page looks like with Iceweasel.
Of course, you can choose to download and install Firefox on Debian but it might be more convenient to use the same browser and find a workaround. In fact, this can be solved by changing the user agent sent to the webserver. For the non technical people reading that blog, the user agent is a set of characters that identify your software. In the context of a web browser, the set of characters will indicate if the browser is Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome or Iceweasel. And depending on the user agent, the server can change and adapt the content. In the present case, it looks that the website is not sending anything when the user agent is Iceweasel.
The workaround is then to "trick" the server and send a fake user agent. To do so, install the User Agent Switcher in Iceweasel. Then, when going on the capitalone website, change the user agent to something popular (such as Firefox as shown below) and the login widget will magically appear.
For sure, this trick or hack is painful and the real solution will be to fix the website rather than to use dirty hacks. On the other hand, this issue is there since several months and has never been fixed by the company. This trick might also (unfortunately) help you when using other websites that provides browser-dependent content. If you are a web-designer, keep in mind that the content should just be compliant with the standards (such as the one from the W3C) and must not depend on a specific technology (such as a web browser).


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Those who want you to doubt that anarchy (self-ownership and individual responsibility) is the best, most moral, and ethical way to live among others are asking you to accept that theft, aggression, superstition, and slavery are perhaps better.
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Friday, December 31, 2010
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Do the right thing, law or no law
Pardon Billy the Kid and then pardon John Wilkes Booth
The issue centers on whether the then-governor, Lew Wallace, promised a pardon in exchange for the Kid's testimony, or whether a pardon was simply hinted at to get Billy to cooperate- in effect tricking him.
Either way I would say it seems to show that politicians weren't any more honest back then than they are now.
Many people might complain that this is a silly thing for a governor to be concerning himself with. Everyone actually connected with the case has been dead for a very long time, and the real truth of what was promised or lied about, as well as whether Billy the Kid was really a bad guy or not, is obscured by the time that has passed.
Maybe it is silly for this to be a government concern. Everything government does is silly at best and harmful at worst. However, as long as The State wastes time worrying about long-dead politicians and their broken promises to long-dead outlaws, The State isn't worrying about, and planning, new ways to molest the rest of us. This can only be good. It's like when all the cops are snarfing down donuts at the donut shop instead of harassing drivers. Let's encourage them to engage in useless, but harmless, exercises! At least until we can fire them all.
Along similar lines, I'd like to get the ball rolling on a pardon for John Wilkes Booth for his freelance trial, sentencing, and justified execution of that murderous tyrant Abraham Lincoln.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Societal Cancer
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Bubble Theory vs the ZAP etc.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
The pot calling the kettle black- and filing suit
Forgive my whine
Friday, December 24, 2010
Milgram runs amok in ABQ
It's like the Milgram Experiment being run full-scale with real-life consequences and no one to step in and stop it before it goes too far. Am I the only one who sees the evil of this? Especially considering how many of the inmates are in jail, not for doing anything wrong, but simply as political prisoners.
Once is too many times. Twice is horrible. How many times have not been reported, and how many other rapists are working for corrections [sic] facilities?
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
State should stay out of private life
Case in point: a while ago, in a comment posted to an article in the Clovis News Journal about the election day failure of the bond issues for the local punishment industry, I observed that the "justice system" would be much cheaper and better if counterfeit "laws" were not being enforced. These are the "laws" the violation of which have no specific, individual victims; are expressions of self-ownership; or are consensual acts between responsible individuals which are no one's business except those involved.
Drug use, gun possession, most traffic "laws", prostitution, and things of this nature should never have been made into things The State seeks to regulate, prohibit, or control. Things that are actually wrong, such as theft or fraud, rape, kidnapping, assault, and murder would still be subject to punishment or, better yet, restitution. No one has a right to control your private life unless you violate the identical rights of others by infringing on their life or property.
However, if your drug use, your religious beliefs, your job, or anything else is used as an excuse for committing harmful acts (such as theft or assault), you are liable for the harm you caused and your rationale is meaningless. Wrong is wrong.
One reply to my comment sarcastically stated something to the effect that of course the "crime rate" would go down if assault and robbery were made legal. That the commenter completely missed my entire point was obvious. This is a source of frustration; not those who read and understand, yet disagree. They may be wrong, but their wrongness is at least based upon their principles and value system (flawed and inconsistent as those may be) rather than upon the belief I am advocating the opposite of what I am.
Often I want to reply that the commenter should have his mom re-read my comment to him, pointing out specifically the main thrust of my argument which pulls the rug out from under his snarky reply. Then I realize I would probably be wasting my time. It's better to just ignore those types. The problem is that they believe government can be the solution, and they vote based on that mistaken conviction. This should scare anyone who has sense.
Concert raided; violations invented
Providing entertainment that is voluntary and initiates no force or fraud against anyone is not wrong. Tricking people into becoming a slave of the federal government is wrong. He organized the concert but he is also a national guard recruiter. Let's get our priorities straight.
I always wonder who alerts the LEOs to events such as this concert. Busybodiness should have consequences.
I see no allegations that anything wrong was going on, or that anyone was harmed. Of course, the "officials" were able to find "code violations". There is no building on earth that would be completely free of these if examined close enough. The "officials" also say that "underage girls" were wearing "very inappropriate outfits". So what? What gives the "officials" the authority to decide what is inappropriate for anyone else?
There exists in authoritarians the perverted desire to make certain that no one has any fun (except for their own guys who get a thrill out of their acts of coercion and control). I'll not excuse their harmful perversion.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Criminal pruning hits ABQ
Dependent on the bully?
Sunday, December 19, 2010
"Bubble of Personal Property" video
Or you can watch the full length version:
Government 'services'
Saturday, December 18, 2010
"Love it or Leave it"
Elderly woman told she has no authority over her own life or property
"Theft by any other name" video
I thought I'd try my hand at something a little different. What do you think?
Friday, December 17, 2010
Passed-out drunk cop off the hook
The (now former) Albuquerque cop who was found passed-out drunk in his car on the side of the road has had the charges dropped.
As I have said before, he did the right thing. If you realize you are too drunk to drive you should stop driving. Immediately. "Laws" that would punish you for being responsible and doing the right thing are wrong.
However, the case that the judge cited as the reason he was dropping the cop's case differs in a rather substantial way. That man was passed out in the driver's seat, but the vehicle's keys were on the passenger seat. The state supreme court said there wasn't enough evidence that he had actually been driving. I agree. In this cop's case, he was on the side of the interstate, with the keys in the ignition, with the vehicle running. Any idiot could deduce he had been driving. If he were not an "Only One" I think the case would not have been dropped under these circumstances. I despise double standards.
Statists following the script
Thursday, December 16, 2010
No obligation to stick with job
The State acts like a psychotic parent
Subway robbed, employees shot
Subway robbed, employees shot


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Feeling woozy?
February 20, 2011 § Leave a comment
Have you woken up with a dry mouth? A terrible headache? Severe nausea?
You've probably got no need to panic, and the likelihood is a coffee, a bacon sandwich and a couple of aspirin will sort you out. Chances are you had too good a night last night and you're now doubting you'll be able to leave the house without sunglasses. You don't need to be a doctor to diagnosis this one – it's a hangover, the worst of the weekend visitors.
Whether this affliction has followed you for years or if, as you get older, your fresh-faced, leap-out-of-bed attitude is finally catching up with you, most people who've had a drink have also had a hangover. And to use a phrase often mumbled from beneath the duvet, "What the hell happened last night?"
You shall not make for yourself a false iDol
February 10, 2011 § Leave a comment
Or should that be a fully lowercase idol? If you're so wrapped up in your new technology you haven't got time to confess the answer may have arrived – in the form of the Roman Catholic-approved iPhone, iPod and iPad App 'Confession', available for the bargain price of £1.19.
The developers, Little iApps, have achieved fame by having the first app sanctioned by the church. They told Reuters they wanted everyone to have a "personalised examination of conscience".
The religious user is led through the sacrament, a number of questions designed to help them keep track of their sins, and to help them prepare for the Rite of Penance. It also takes into account their sex, marital status and age.
In praise of irreverent research
October 13, 2010 § 1 Comment
My last post reminded me that I have yet to say or write anything about a recent set of scientific prizes – yeah, yeah, the Nobels, we know all about them. But what about the Ig Nobels? For those who don't have a clue what I'm on about – these are the prizes awarded by The Annals of Improbable Research. The prizes, and improbable research itself, are dedicated to work that first of all makes you laugh, and then makes you think. And they really do.
I've been a huge fan of these awards since I became aware of them in 2007, when I went to watch the Ig Nobels 'on tour' in London. Sitting in a room full of scientists at an evening to celebrate award-winning research you might expect a series of long and boring lectures about seemingly tedious research into a tiny incremental change in something-or-another, or a newly discovered whatdyumacallit. Nope. I got woodpeckers and head injuries, a teenager repellant and evidence that female mosquitos like the smell of Limburger cheese.
That intriguing bunch weren't the only winners; other highlights of the 2006 Ig Nobels were studies into why we hate the sound of fingers down a blackboard, how to get the perfect blink-free photo and an ingenious method of curing a the hiccups.
So what craziness has been going on this year then?
Are scientists a little punch drunk?
October 13, 2010 § Leave a comment
When I saw this piece on the New Scientist website I was obviously intrigued. A headline about a robot punching people? Under the guise of it being in line with Isaac Asimov's rules? Asimov has written huge numbers of books exploring the interaction of robots and humans, including I, Robot, but didn't he say a robot could never hurt a human? What was going on here… I clicked on (I was, in fact, so intrigued that I was spurred into subscribing – something I've been meaning to do but never quite got round to. Anyway, I digress).
As I read on, I was captivated; this is a perfect science story – someone doing something that seems a bit whacky, but there's an underlying purpose to it all. I can tell by now you're as intrigued as me… why are some Slovenian scientists getting robots to punch their friends? The suspense is almost unbearable, I'm sure.


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Number 419 - Stevie Wonder
Number 419
Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Genre: R&B
art by whyyitsrachel
1985 was the last time Stevie Wonder had a hit in the charts, that was 24 years ago. So? you say. Well, it's just a long time between innings as one could say. I just felt Stevie had more petrol left in the tank, after all he is one of the most talented people alive musically on this planet from singing to playing every single instrument in an entire orchestra. Does a musician really retire? Or hang up the cape? To move on to a normal life, hang out with the kids, mow the lawns & tinker in the kitchen on Sundays making omelette's? Of course not. After all, inside him is the performer and that cannot be domesticated or denied. So, when we say to our "Dearest" I'm of to the garage or the office, he can slip away to another room we all wish we could have at our house .... the recording studio crib!
What am i getting at? Its easy, I still think that he has it inside of him to record another #1 hit album, that will prove that he is still the genius we all think he is.
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After releasing two "head" records during 1970-71, Stevie Wonder expanded his compositional palate with 1972's Talking Book to include societal ills as well as tender love songs, and so recorded the first smash album of his career. What had been hinted at on the intriguing project Music of My Mind was here focused into a laser beam of tight songwriting, warm electronic arrangements, and ebullient performances -- altogether the most realistic vision of musical personality ever put to wax, beginning with a disarmingly simple love song, "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (but of course, it's only the composition that's simple). Stevie's not always singing a tender ballad here -- in fact, he flits from contentment to mistrust to promise to heartbreak within the course of the first four songs -- but he never fails to render each song in the most vivid colors.
For more Stevie Wonder see Number 657
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In stark contrast to his early songs, which were clever but often relied on the Motown template of romantic metaphor, with Talking Book it became clear Stevie Wonder was beginning to speak his mind and use personal history for material (just as Marvin Gaye had with the social protest of 1971's What's Going On). The lyrics became less convoluted, while the emotional power gained in intensity. "You and I" and the glorious closer "I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)" subtly illustrate that the conception of love can be stronger than the reality, while "Tuesday Heartbreak" speaks simply but powerfully: " I wanna be with you when the nighttime comes / I wanna be with you till the daytime comes." Ironically, the biggest hit from Talking Book wasn't a love song at all; the funk landmark "Superstition" urges empowerment instead of hopelessness, set to a grooving beat that made it one of the biggest hits of his career.
For Marvin Gaye see Number 611
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It's followed by "Big Brother," the first of his directly critical songs, excoriating politicians who posture to the underclass in order to gain the only thing they really need: votes. With Talking Book, Stevie also found a proper balance between making an album entirely by himself and benefiting from the talents of others. His wife Syreeta and her sister Yvonne Wright contributed three great lyrics, and Ray Parker, Jr. came by to record a guitar solo that brings together the lengthy jam "Maybe Your Baby." Two more guitar heroes, Jeff Beck and Buzzy Feton, appeared on "Lookin' for Another Pure Love," Beck's solo especially giving voice to the excruciating process of moving on from a broken relationship. Like no other Stevie Wonder LP before it, Talking Book is all of a piece, the first unified statement of his career. It's certainly an exercise in indulgence but, imitating life, it veers breathtakingly from love to heartbreak and back with barely a pause. ~ [John Bush, All Music Guide]
For Jeff Beck see Number 636
Friday the 13th = Superstition
Wonder had actually written this song for Jeff Beck, but at the insistence of his own manager, Wonder himself recorded it first. Beck was instead offered "Cause We've Ended As Lovers", which he recorded on Blow by Blow in 1975. Jeff Beck played guitar on Talking Book and later recorded his own version of "Superstition" with Beck, Bogert & Appice. Wonder's music had been undergoing a marked change from his earlier Motown pop to a more personal style. This shift had been evident on his two prior albums, but it was Talking Book, and "Superstition" in particular that brought the new style to the awareness of the public in general. ~ [Source: Wikipedia]
And, what does RS think of S.Wonder?
Groomed from an early age for Motown stardom, Stevie Wonder mastered that label's distinctive fusion of pop and soul and then went on to compose far more idiosyncratic music &Number 8212; an ambitious hybrid of sophisticated Tin Pan Alley chord changes and R&B energy, inflected with jazz, reggae, and African rhythms. A synthesizer and studio pioneer, Stevie Wonder is one of the few musicians to make records on which he plays virtually all the instruments, and does so with both convincing technique and abandon. A lifelong advocate of nonviolent political change patterned after Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi, Wonder epitomizes '60s utopianism while remaining resolutely contemporary in his musical experiments. ~ [Source: Rolling Stone]
Rolling Stone magazine deemed their '419th Song of all Time' was "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang" by Dr Dre. Dr Dre has not appeared in The Definitive 1000.
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Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs ranked this song at Number 74 and the Album ranked at Number 90
This song has a total Definitive rating of 78 out of 108
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Chapter 1 of Not By Scripture Alone is by Patrick Madrid, and is entitled "Sola Scriptura: A Blueprint for Anarchy." Patrick is editor-in-chief of Envoy Magazine, a journal of Catholic apologetics and evangelization. His undergrad was from the University of Phoenix, and his graduate work (a Master's Degree in Theology) is from the University of Dallas. Patrick is one of those fighting Catholics. Right from the get-go, he lets us know exactly what he thinks of Protestants, especially in how he perceives them to put forward Sola Scriptura:
It's funny. For five centuries, Protestants have intimidated, cowed, browbeaten, flustered, put to flight, trodden down, bullied, vexed, and knocked the wind out of countless unwary Catholics by using the "Bible only" approach to religious arguments (p. 1).
It is difficult to know how to respond to this. Perhaps Mr. Madrid has had many bad experiences with Protestants, and is therefore projecting his experiences on to the rest of Catholicism. Also, one does not wish to respond in kind to this kind of rhetoric. Perhaps the best thing is simply to note Mr. Madrid's vexation with Protestants and move on. I would only point out this one thing, though: such rhetoric does not give me hope that Mr. Madrid has taken the time and patience to understand Protestants. One other thing: it was slightly jarring to me to read Mr. Sungenis's preface, which spoke of rapprochement between Catholics and Protestants, and then to see this article come right out of the block with both arms swinging hard.
Mr. Madrid states that the entire book is about three major problems with Sola Scriptura: it is unhistorical, unbiblical, and impractical (p. 2). The present chapter, he says, is supposed to give us a "macro" look (his words) at the issues.
He starts, then, by describing the doctrine. Right away we run into problems. While quoting Robert Godfrey's definition is certainly not a problem, summarizing it the way he does by way of objection ("Scripture is not always clear in all places so that any 'ordinary believer can find it there and understand it'") is a complete caricature. One wonders why Sungenis did not catch this straw man. It is not the Protestant position that Scripture is always clear in all places. This is a common Catholic misconception of the Protestant position, and it allows them to introduce all sorts of evidence about how difficult Scripture is to interpret. All of which evidence is beside the point. The Protestant position is that only those things necessary for salvation and for faith and life are clear in Scripture. Nor do we mean by this that the clarity that is in Scripture is all on the surface. The believer has to work to get some of those clear things. But we are NOT saying that all Scripture is clear. I own approximately 1500 commentaries on Scripture precisely because I do not believe that Scripture is always clear. Furthermore, even in the clear passages, there is always more to glean. Indeed, 2 Peter 3 tells us that Paul's letters can be difficult to understand at times.
The second point that bears mention about this section on the definition of Sola Scriptura is his clear affirmation of the material sufficiency of Scripture (p. 3). What we mean by material sufficiency is that every important doctrine of Scripture can be found in Scripture, whether in seed form, or in scattered form, or in full glory. As we will see, Rome did not always believe in material sufficiency. In can certainly be argued that Trent did not believe in material sufficiency. For instance, David King writes, "Nearly every theologian from the Council of Trent to Vatican I (a span of about 300 years) understood the teaching of Trent to be a denial of both the material and formal sufficiency of Scripture" (Holy Scripture, vol 1, p. 183, emphasis original). He quotes Karl Rahner to the same effect (see Theological Investigations, vol VI, pp. 106-107). So, which Catholicism is correct on material sufficiency? Trent as interpreted by the Magisterium up until Vatican I (which argues against material sufficiency), or John Henry Newman (who argues for material sufficiency)? It is a bit simplistic for the authors of Not By Scripture Alone simply to gloss over this rather large dispute within the Catholic church regarding material sufficiency. They seem simply to assume not only the principle of material sufficiency, but they also seem to claim that this has always been the Catholic position (see Madrid's wording "2000 years-worth of Christian believers from seeing them in Scripture," p. 3; Madrid is talking about specifically Romanist teachings, such as the Mass, baptismal regeneration, the primacy of Peter, and sacred tradition). This ahistorical understanding of Catholicism allows Madrid to perpetrate an ad populam fallacy. This fallacy appeals to a number of people as arguing a particular position, and thus concluding that the position is correct simply because a large number of people hold to it. Watch closely:
You can already see the problem. Godfrey's definition of (and, a fortiori, his arguments for) sola scriptura self-destructs, because his claim insists that all those "ordinary believers" who found the Mass, the sacraments, etc., were completely wrong in their interpretation of Scripture. These Catholic teachings, Godfrey and his fellow Protestant apologists contend, are actually not there in Scripture. But then he must also admit that Scripture was not clear on those doctrines, at least not clear enough to prevent 2000 years-worth of Christian believers from seeing them in Scripture (p. 3).
There are actually two problems here. One is the appeal to the majority, which is not logical. Secondly, there is an assumption that Christian believers, even many Christian believers, could not be mistaken about what the Bible says. However, is it impossible for sin to blind the minds of many people, even if they are Christians?
We'll tackle one more problem that Madrid raises here, and that is the issue of interpretation. Of course, we only have space here to do a general treatment of this. Nevertheless, this is very important. Madrid writes "There is no way, under the sola scriptura rubric, to know with certainty who's (sic) interpretation of Scripture is correct and whose is 'unbiblical.' Sola Scriptura is epistemologically unviable" (p. 3). I believe here that Madrid proves too much. Madrid would obviously say here that the only way to know with certainty whose interpretation is correct is to submit to the Roman Catholic Church, for the Magisterium is capable of telling us which interpretation is correct. However, the Magisterium has not agreed on the interpretation of Scripture, either. A case in point is the material sufficiency problem noted above. As will be argued in future posts, both Protestant and Catholic interpretations of Scripture can be found in the early church fathers. So the Magisterium cannot tell us what is the perfect interpretation of Scripture either. Ultimately, Madrid's position makes Scripture completely useless, since it all becomes a matter of interpretation. In interpreting the Catholic tradition to be entirely in favor of material sufficiency, as Madrid does, he has selectively used the Magisterium to prove his own opinion. The Magisterium therefore becomes a wax nose, bendable to the author's own purposes.


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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
My Shark Summit
The first time I glimpsed the dots bubbling underneath the ocean on the left, I thought I was hallucinating. I had sailed a jerky, sun-scorching hour to get to the whale shark reserve of Isla Contoy on the Yucatan Peninsula and needless to say, I wasn't in the best mental state. The dreaded sea-seasickness had kicked in and I wasn't sure if I was seeing things.
When we set off at the crack of dawn for EcoColors Whale Shark Adventure, I didn't know what to expect. I certainly didn't expect this Mayan warrior above, jumping and waving his talisman on the dock. I think he was wishing us vaya con Dios Americanos estupidos. It did not feel comforting but what did I know?
I was still smiling when I hopped on the boat, excited about this once-in-a lifetime experience. There are only two places you can see whale sharks in the world:Australia and Mexico. And I wasn't going to just see them, I was going to splash down right next to them and snorkel.
By the time we set sail and the ocean rippled and rocked our small boat, I was having tiny second thoughts. Whale sharks are the biggest fish on Earth, averaging 41,50 feet and 47,000 pounds. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to get all up in their face. Just at that point, the bubbles rose up to reveal a cluster of polka-dotted whale sharks, surrounding our boat. It was almost like they were inviting us to join them.
This baby whale shark floated so close that I could touch him. I slung on my snorkel mask and jumped in, queasy stomach and all. Our naturalist guide led us to a small group of whale sharks, We were instructed not to swim in front of the sharks because their eyes are on the side and they can't see in front. We swam on the side of the speckled fish, which are part of the shark family but are a slow-moving, filter-feeding variety. They eat plankton, microscopic plants and small animals. I was assured that human morsels are not included in their diet, which is a good thing because they swam so close to me that they brushed up against my skin. Although they ballooned out hundreds of feet around me, they weren't menacing but playful, like dolphins. Unlike dolphins, whale sharks are classified as "vulnerable to extinction" on the World Conversation Union's Red List. I'm glad I endured the six-hour adventure, there are only about 2,500 whale sharks in Mexico and I snagged an up close and personal visit with quite a few of them.
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Sunday, August 21, 2011
Fun in the Sun Without The Burn
I love the sun. It's no coincidence that much of my traveling takes place in climates where the sun blazes nonstop. Nothing encourages exploration and adventure quite like a sunny day, as long as you're equipped to handle it. Besides sunscreen and sun glasses, I always pack sun hats for any tropical escapade. And by sun hats, I don't mean the geeky safari or outback variety. You can have sun protection and style all in one hat and I have a carefully curated arsenal to prove it. The only problem is that not all fashionable sun hats are crushable and easy to pack so I'm always on the lookout for more. So when I received a review sample of the La Scala Collezione sun hat with SPF 50 sun protection, I was a little excited. I wasn't a lot excited because I was skeptical of the claim that this hat would block 97.5 percent of the sun's ultraviolet rays. With a cute ric-rac design, cotton and polyester fabric and a bendable four-inch brim, this little chapeau just didn't look that powerful. So I took it on the ultimate test--Mexico in the heat of the summer.
There's something about the intense Mexican sun that always scorches me, I don't care how much sunscreen or how many hats that I wear. I have never stepped a toe into Mexico without coming home with some part of my body burned. I wore the La Scala hat in 98 degree heat as I waltzed through Isla Mujeres, dripping in sweat. Guess what? After a total of nine hours in the sun, I wasn't even lightly singed. Very impressive for a hat that's also cute and packable. I wish I could tell you that I finally made it home from Mexico without any sunburn but I can not. The one day I didn't wear the hat, I promptly burned my nose and cheeks (slathered with sunscreen). I probably need to order one of these hats in every color. They cost $30 and can be ordered at womens-hats.com. What are some of your sun protection tips?
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Anne's Angst: Raspberry Cordial or Currant Wine
You can't go many places in Canada and not be greeted with a reference from the classic children's book, set in Canada's Prince Edward Island, Anne of Green Gables. But I was surprised and delighted to spot bottles of raspberry cordial at Montreal's Jean-Talon Market. In a pivotal scene in the book, dramatic Anne serves her best friend Diana huge tumblers full of raspberry cordial. Only it's not zesty raspberry cordial but Marilla's homemade currant wine and Diana stumbles home drunk. Poor Anne is forever banned from seeing her best friend for getting her in such a wicked state. Sipping the fruity drink, I was transported to weeks reading the Anne of Green Gables books as a child and then reliving them with my daughter decades later. Have you ever seen anything that brought you back to your childhood during your travels?
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Thursday, August 4, 2011
Montreal Circus Arts
Montreal is a city that vibrates with quirkiness. You'll see evidence of this everywhere from the edgy public art to the funky fashion. I'll have posts on both of those things but another quirky example that really struck me was the prevalence of circus arts. I know that this is the city that birthed Cirque du Soleil but I was caught off guard. My first vision upon entering the acclaimed Montreal Jazz Festival was the pair of hula hoopers, above.
I was just not prepared for this sight or the mimes, stilt walkers and jugglers that I also saw everywhere I turned. I've attended lots of jazz festivals but I've never witnessed any circus performers during them.
By the time I saw these aerialists, I had discovered that Montreal takes its circus arts very seriously. It's treated like any other art form and admittance to the National Circus Performers School Montreal carries as much prestige as entrance into an Ivy League college.
Cirque du Soleil is just the most famous, there are dozens of similar troupes in Montreal and I enjoyed a taste of their dramatic attributes for most of the time that I visited Montreal.
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I get this every now and then from banking and other services. I appreciate the principle of challenging you on certain letters, so the entire password is never transferred. However:
Please add an extra line of code to sort the positions. Asking me for the 4th letter and then the 2nd letter doesn't fit the way I think, and has zero impact on security anyway.
It does get difficult when I'm walking around on my mobile and I have to punch in the 8th letter of an 11-letter password.
It's also fairly pointless on a SSL-secured website, where no-one should be able to see the password – if someone is in a position to sniff the password, they will probably be able to sniff it again the next few times and get your details. It's only useful in a call centre situation, to prevent casual abuse. You may as well do what other sites do and ask for the whole password. The above screenshot is from experian, which is probably more used to call centres and has just translated their phone script into a website without thinking about the different user experience and different conventions of the web.


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Since this week we are dedicating our site to influential British women, we decided to take a look at some of the women who have rocked the fashion world, whether it be by their unique approach to fashion, their model status or their attempts to incorporate their lifestyle into fashion. We have looked at veteran of fashion, Vivienne Westwood; controversial model and her contribution to high street fashion, Kate Moss and wannabe designer Katie Price, who is taking her unique style to the catwalk.
Dame Vivienne Westwood (born Vivienne Isabel Swire in Tintwistle, Cheshire, England on 8 April, 1941), is the English fashion designer largely responsible for modern punk and new wave fashions.
By her mid twenties, Vivienne Westwood's life seemed to be passing in a distinctly unremarkable way. At 25, she was married to an air steward; she lived in Willesden, went to church and taught in a local primary school.
Then something remarkable happened, she met Malcolm Mclaren, future manager of the Sex Pistols, and he led her into the underground of the late 1960's street. He lectured her on the political power of art and liberated her creative desires from their bondage in working class conformity. Westwood became a subversive seamstress of pop.
Her first designs hung in Let it Rock on the King's Road in 1971. Five years later the boutique, now named Sex, sold ripped T-shirts, chains and assorted bondage gear and Westwood was dressing Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols.
In the early 80s her collaboration with McLaren was a result of the first catwalk show – The Pirate collection. Pirates were the answer. The early 1980s was the time of the New Romantics, an urban arts scene that eschewed gender distinctive dress to delight in the theatre of courtier costume and whirls of eyeliner. Catching their mood, Westwood looked back to the 19th Century for her first collection, which she called Pirates. By the mid 80s her shows were shown on catwalks of Paris, then further collaboration with huge designer as Giorgio Armani.
In the 1990s Westwood had many awards in fashion, and she was appointed as professor of fashion at Vienna. This was the time when she launched her menswear collection Cut and Slash. She continued to open new shops across the UK and abroad in places such as New York and Milan.
Her designs combine a fearless unconformity with a sense of tradition. She is renowned for her gentle parody of Establishment styles, her use of very British fabrics such as Harris tweed and tartan, her re-use of historic garments such as the corset and crinoline. Yet, her approach has always been practical, driven by a curiosity about how things work, a process she describes as 'learning through action'.
- Educated in University of Westminster, Midlesex University and Goldsmiths.
- In 1971 opened her first shop with McLaren at 430 King's Road, London called 'Let it Rock'
- 3 times awarded Fashion Designer of the Year by the British Fashion Council
- Awarded OBE by her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll
- Has two sons from different marriages – Ben Westwood and Joe Corre
- Collections include wedding dresses, fragrances, menswear.
Katherine Ann Moss was born on January 16, 1974 in Addiscombe, Croydon, South London, England. She was first spotted by model agency boss Sarah Doukas as a 14-year-old at JFK airport, and started her modelling career doing unremarkable shoots for teenage magazines. Photographer Corinne Day, one of the key players of the early Nineties "grunge" period, spotted her potential and snapped the adolescent topless and wearing a Native American headdress. The picture was published on the front cover of style bible The Face, and a Generation X icon was born. She has appeared on over 300 magazine covers. She is one of the most recognized supermodels in the world.
Unlike many of her contemporaries, who lost their hipness through over-exposure or as a result of the fashion industry's constant need to reinvent itself, Kate has always been at the cutting edge of style. Today she is Britain's wealthiest model, with an estimated fortune of nearly ₤15 million.
In 1998 Kate made headlines when it was revealed she'd checked into London's celeb-friendly rehab centre The Priory after suffering what was termed "exhaustion".
After splitting with Johnny Depp in May 1998, Kate was involved with a number of relationships, including one with Jefferson Hack, the former editor of style magazine Dazed & Confused, with whom she had a child. Lila Grace was born in September 2002, but by early 2004 her parents had decided to call it a day on their relationship.
She soon began dating singer Pete Doherty, whose addiction problems were well documented in the press and in September 2005 Kate became entangled in a drugs furore herself after tabloids showed pictures of her allegedly using cocaine. She lost several major modelling contracts, including Burberry, and issued an apology.
Still the darling of the fashion world despite her tumultuous personal life, she went on to land a deal with high street chain Topshop to design her own range, cementing her status as a style leader.
- Attended Ridgeway Primary School and Riddlesdown High School in Purley.
- In September 2005, she was caught up in a cocaine scandal as pictures of her allegedly snorting cocaine were published by the Daily Mirror.
- Won the 'Sexiest Woman' NME Award in March 2007.
- Launched a fragrance and body lotion range with Coty in 2007.
- Released a collection of clothes exclusively for the TopShop chain in May 2007
Katie Price (born Katrina Amy Alexandria Infield in Brighton, East Sussex, England on May 22nd 1978) has been in and out of the headlines since she found fame as a Page 3 Glamour Model.
At the suggestion of a friend to have professional photographs taken, she decided to pursue a modelling career. After sending the picture to a modelling agency in London she was invited to their studios for photo shoots and to discuss a contract.
In 1996 she was offered a job as a Page 3 model in The Sun and appeared in topless photos under the name Jordan.
Unhappy with the size of her breasts, she had enhancement surgery to increse her natural 32B/C to a 32D. The Sun, however, later barred her from Page 3 after announcing they would only hire 'all natural' models. She still continued modelling for magazines such as FHM, Maxim, Nuts, Loaded, Vogue, British Elle and the British Edition of Playboy.
In May 2002 she gave birth to soon Harvey Price, whose father is footballer Dwight Yorke. Shortly after his birth, Harvey was found to have a condition known as septo-optic dysplasia, meaning that the development of his optic nerve was unpredictable. It has later been discovered he is on the autistic spectrum, gains weight easily and finds walking difficult.
In 2004 she appeared in ITV's I'm a Celebrity…..Get Me Out Of Here! Where she met future husband Peter Andre. The couple married in September 2005 and had two children Junior Savva Andreas Andre (born 13th June 2005) and Princess Tiaamii Crystal Esther Andre (born 29th June 2007.) However the couple divorced September 2009. She later remarried cage fight Alex Reid in February 2010 but the couple announced their separation in January 2011.
Her popularity may have taken a dive since her split from Pete, but her brand hasn't. She has successfully released books, perfumes, a hair care range, an equestrian range, bedding, reality shows and has recently created her own fashion line.
Although not everyone will agree with Jordan's fashion choices, she has teamed up with designer Lamis Khamis to bring you Day 22. On the 22nd (which is the day she was born on) of every month they will add new limited edition piece to the collection as they wanted "a brand that is fresh all the time." If you are interested in buying any of the Day 22 collection go to www.day22.co.uk
Jordan may not be in the headlines for all the right reasons, but she has transformed herself into a smart and savvy businesswoman, and this is inspirational to many young girls out there.
- Attended Blatchington Mill School, where she swam for Sussex in regional competitions.
- At the age of 13 modelled for a clothing line, however the project's photographer was found to be a convicted pedophile.
- In 2002 she was treated for cancer. She had a leiomyosarcoma on her finger and the tumour was removed.
- Price is a keen horse rider and has taken part in Dressage competitions.
- After many years at ITV2, she left the channel and signed a new deal worth a reported £10million with Living TV in 2010
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text: History through Cuban eyes: Noticiero ICAIC A Listening Post special looking back at a time when Cuban movie theatres delivered the news like nobody else. 30 Dec 2017 14:46 GMT Cuba, History, Arts & Culture, Latin America This is a story of history recorded on film; a history of revolutionary Cuba; a history of the world seen through Cuban eyes. 'Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano' was a series of cinematic newsreels produced from 1960 to 1990 by the Cuban film Institute ICAIC. The weekly news programme, covering major local and global events, would be shown before film screenings in the capital, Havana, and in towns and villages around the island. One of the fundamental values of the Noticiero is that it has transformed news into a work of art. Daniel Diaz Castillo, sound technician Many of those 1,493 newsreels could just be derided as propaganda, but they pushed the limits of news, of visual storytelling, and have left a legacy. At first, Noticiero's newsreels were meant "to defend the revolution's position and at the same time support a staunchly anti-imperialist position.... By 1962-63, you could see that the newsreel was more than just a weekly news review, no matter how agile, dynamic - militant. There was also an artistic vision," says Manuel Perez Parades, the former director of Noticiero ICAIC. As it began to develop its creativity, "it was able to disrupt certain established rules in how things should be said ... ICAIC took a particular stance towards artistic expression, which took risks. There was also a danger that mistakes could be made. And yet, it was a risk worth taking." Cinema newsreels are anachronisms now, but back then, Cubans were covering the news their way. And we haven't seen anything like what they produced since. "Many people would go especially to watch Noticiero ICAIC, because it was very dynamic and very Cuban. It recounted social problems, but with a smile," says David Armas, an archivist at ICAIC. "These are really priceless audiovisual materials, not just for Cuba but for the world."Source: Al Jazeera Tell us what you think


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Vietnamese model Pham Thuy Linh in Female Warrior costume. Pham Thuy Linh won the Silver Prize of Vietnam Supermodel 2010 Competition. She is trying to refresh her image in the public eye. With the support of Designer Tang Thanh Cong and makeup-man Trung Lac, Pham Thuy Linh acts as a female warrior in a provocative costume.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
I was already used to blogging 5 days a week before that, so it was really only one more day a week.... But it came at a time when I would've cut down to 3 days a week. Then May came, and I hit a slump. Did this happen for anyone else?
And it made me laugh, because it's JUST LIKE WRITING. If you write every day, it comes easily, and the ideas are always there. If you blog every day, it comes easily and the ideas are always there.
If you DON'T write for a while, when you try to start writing again, it feels like you forgot how. You can't figure things out. The ideas of where to take your story don't come easily. If you don't blog for a while, it feels like you forgot how. Ideas of what to blog about seem non-existent.
Have you ever been blog-slumped before? How did you get out of it? Or are you there with me right now, just hoping that you'll remember how? ;o)
40 comments:
- Eve said...
Oh I understand that I haven't wrote any on my book in a month or so and when I sat down to try and push out some yesterday I just had to read what I already had (which took up all the time I had) and now I'm back where I started lol.
Hope your slump is over!
- May 22, 2012 at 7:26 AM
- Cassie Mae said...
Oh my gosh, I just wrote my first blog post that wasn't a blog hop or award prompt today too, and it was like, dude... did I forget how to do this? What was the point I was going for again? Haha!
Definitely slumping too. So bloggy tired from A to Z.
- May 22, 2012 at 7:33 AM
- Adrienne said...
I feel like I'm in a constant blog slump! I post every Monday, and I'm such a procrastinator that I don't even think about what to write until Sunday. But I'm with you, this post-A to Z month has been even more difficult!
- May 22, 2012 at 7:36 AM
- Kyra Lennon said...
I hear ya! I am just now climbing out of my slump after A-Z!
- May 22, 2012 at 7:52 AM
- Rebecca Belliston said...
I hit a slump in March and am barely climbing out if it. Sounds like this is a common occurrence. :) The way I got out of it was getting back to blogging what I wanted to blog about and not what I thought people wanted to hear. Good luck climbing.
- May 22, 2012 at 8:19 AM
- Iain said...
I was going to comment, but I've forgotten what I was going to put. :o|
- May 22, 2012 at 8:26 AM
I've seen a definite decrease in hits since the A-to-Z ended, but it's pretty much in-line with what I was seeing prior to it, so that's one thing. As for the slump, I think I avoided it with my topic of choice for the challenge. Of course, being sick again, for the second time in two weeks, has limited my ability to blog read.
- May 22, 2012 at 8:30 AM
- Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy said...
Hi Peggy, I thought it was just me because I got busy with other things ..like moving stuff from the old travel trailer to the new one ... things that required organizational skills and the other side of my brain. I am still putting up a few picture posts and my Sepia Saturday post(factual stuff), but my creative writing is all dried up and I'm just not drawn to my blog right now.
Oh, well, I'm sure that it will all come back for you and the rest of us who are dragging along. A-Z did put a lot of pressure on.
Kathy M.
- May 22, 2012 at 8:40 AM
- Chantele Sedgwick said...
Pretty sure I'm there with you right now. :P
- May 22, 2012 at 8:45 AM
- Christa Desir said...
I have become blog-slumped because I don't know how handcuffed I am about what I can say on my blog. I am not supposed to share writing. I don't feel like I can do reviews. If I talk too much about writing stuff, my other friends get bored (I have a lot of friend and family followers). It's a hot mess of blog paralysis. Hang in there!
- May 22, 2012 at 8:46 AM
- Unknown said...
Blogging is like writing. You have to do it everyday or you get out of practice. I'm in the post A-Z slump too.
- May 22, 2012 at 9:15 AM
- JeffO said...
I'm blog-slumped every Monday and Friday morning when I have to get something up if I want to stick to my schedule.
- May 22, 2012 at 9:20 AM
- Leslie said...
I don't know how you managed the whole a-z thing anyway! That would've killed me to be that consistent. So I can understand a blog slump. Even on my regular family blog I'm in a slump pretty much half of every month.
- May 22, 2012 at 9:29 AM
- Precy Larkins said...
You'll get back to it. It's like riding a bicycle (cliche, I know, but true). I took a break after the A-Z challenge. No pressure to blog, no pressure to visit other blogs, except for when I wanted to. And I think it helped me tremendously. I'm still in a semi-hiatus mode--only blogging when I need to, or commenting if something catches my eye.
- May 22, 2012 at 10:07 AM
- Nick Wilford said...
I went on holiday towards the end of A-Z and not really got back in the swing of things since I got back... doesn't help that I'm looking for a job now which takes a ton of time, probably more than when you actually have a job. So my brain isn't really focussed on it right now. The only things I want to post are about my holiday and a giveaway and I haven't had time to do them!
- May 22, 2012 at 10:11 AM
- Patti said...
That sounds so familiar. I really need to make more of an effort to write everyday. It would probably help me.
- May 22, 2012 at 10:29 AM
- Tonja said...
Better to have a blog slump than a novel-writing slump. (Trying to keep my glass half-full.)
- May 22, 2012 at 10:33 AM
- prerna pickett said...
I'm slumping a little right now. I just got back to it after a post pregnancy break. I'm starting to get into the groove again, but like you said, it takes a while.
- May 22, 2012 at 10:37 AM
- S.P. Bowers said...
Yes, I've been blogged slumped. Um, I'm not sure how (or if) I got out of it. I just kept trying. Usually I think it has more to do with stress or overwork in life and I just don't have anything to spare for blogging. Once I work that out the bogging comes back.
- May 22, 2012 at 11:03 AM
- Jenny S. Morris said...
I've totally been blog slumped. LOL. Usually I watch movies or TV and find some tangent to go off on. ;0)
- May 22, 2012 at 11:10 AM
- Rob Z Tobor said...
I post on my blog every day, When I start writing sometimes I do not have a clue where I am heading. Just at present I am under pressure with making a sculpture for a show but I always find the first few words I write will make something click in my head, although I have to point out most of what I write is mad rubbish so that makes things a little easier.
- May 22, 2012 at 11:32 AM
- Delia said...
What Chantele said.
- May 22, 2012 at 11:47 AM
- Daisy Carter said...
I'm with you now! If you figure it out, let me know!
- May 22, 2012 at 12:29 PM
- Faith E. Hough said...
Yep, I'm right next to you. All I've been able to blog about in May is book recommendations!
- May 22, 2012 at 1:11 PM
- Tara Tyler said...
i've seen several blogged out posts lately!
if i don have a post, i have a file full of random & silly ideas, or i just dont post. after a break, there seems to be more comments =)
and do you know laura bambrey? she recently published a book called 100 post ideas! good timing!
- May 22, 2012 at 1:55 PM
- Unknown said...
I get blog slumped every now and then, but not now thankfully. Generally having a couple of really great post ideas helps we get back in the swing. Friendly commenters help too
- May 22, 2012 at 3:24 PM
- Golden Eagle said...
Yup. I usually just let myself take a break and read other blog posts for inspiration.
- May 22, 2012 at 4:54 PM
- Jessie Humphries said...
Peggy slumped? Yeah right...ur just busy is all.
- May 22, 2012 at 5:06 PM
- Trisha said...
Yep, I totally got burned out on the A-Z, and I had most of my posts scheduled ahead of time! I'm back to writing in my blog a few times a week now, and I like it.
- May 22, 2012 at 7:30 PM
- Ruth Josse said...
I was blogged-slumped for most of March and April. I go through them every couple months. But it's not like I can ever think of anything to blog about! That's totally normal for me. :)
- May 22, 2012 at 7:48 PM
- Hannah Hounshell said...
The only times I've blog-slumped so far are when I'm fighting with a chapter and have nothing new to report. In some small way my blog is kind of a goad for me to keep working at it so I have something to tell folks each sunday.
Of course, when I have nothing new to say and feel like I've been beating my head against a wall...I kind of have to force myself to post. The only other alternative it to hide from the internet until I have better news.
The former is embarrassing, but the latter is definitely not an option.
Still, slumps are normal. Without the low points in life, how would we be able to enjoy the high points?
It's worth a thought, right? :)
- May 22, 2012 at 8:34 PM
- E.D. said...
Definitely! I love to write but finding a blog topic is a real challenge every time. And I only blog once a week.
- May 22, 2012 at 9:44 PM
- Tracy MacDonald said...
Agh! Totally there with you. The A to Z was fun and inspiring, but I'm wiped and it's been over for 3 weeks! I keep having little starter ideas, but then they kind of go away. I haven't recovered from my slump yet, but hope to soon as those ideas flit back into my head just screaming to be shared in the blogosphere.
- May 22, 2012 at 10:05 PM
- Elana Johnson said...
I never have anything to blog about. No joke. It's a constant battle to come up with something that isn't all about me, that isn't all about someone else, and/or that someone will find interesting.
I think it has to do with how much other stuff I have crowding my brain.
- May 22, 2012 at 10:15 PM
- Lan said...
I'm in the middle of a very long blog slump at the moment. It's not that I did anything in particular. I guess one day it just happened....Luckily I've picked up more writing during that time but I think maybe I had just run out of ideas and keeping up with the blog and reading other people's posts just got a bit exhausting. Any day now I'll be back with a vengeance. That's what I keep telling myself anyway.
- May 23, 2012 at 2:20 AM
- Susanna Leonard Hill said...
A to Z was tough! i got burned out from reading all the posts I didn't even write for it! I'm sure you'll find your groove again in no time, because you're right - it is just like writing - well, technically, it IS writing :) - and you've got that figured out :)
- May 23, 2012 at 3:51 AM
- Coleen Patrick said...
I think I'd be burned out too after A-Z! That's a tough challenge!
My blog burn out usually comes in the form of feeling insecure--so I blogged about that! :)
- May 23, 2012 at 5:55 AM
- Laura S. said...
LoL, I hear you! I get into blog slumps every now and then. I don't know how I get out of it. I just keep blogging and eventually the slumped feeling goes away! That's how it is with writing, too. I just keep plugging along through the bad days because I know there are good days just around the corner!
- May 23, 2012 at 8:56 AM
- Annalisa Crawford said...
I used that phrase too - I forgot how to blog too. I couldn't remember what I used to post about, which is why I gave myself a schedule to follow.
- May 23, 2012 at 10:45 AM
- Valerie Hartman said...
Before I even read the comments, I am just going to tell you in my own totally ego-centric way that I bet you wrote this post for me. You missed me! I have sooooo been overloaded and haven't posted since, ah-hem, APRIL! Each time I try, nothing. Nada.
So glad to hear it is not just me. I am determined to post today if only so the month of May can have a lovely (1) next to it and not be skipped for all eternity! I think I can, I think I can! Thanks for the camaraderie!
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