The Happy Moron

Talent, well applied, can make big things happen on the internet.
Even if they’re just memes
The internet is a giant magnifying glass; it doesn’t change things, but it makes things ever so much more so.
Great stuff on the internet is ever so much greater than great stuff drawn from a smaller pool. Great stuff [...]

From CBC : Federal Transport Minister John Baird is probing whether airlines are following the rules requiring staff to see the faces of all passengers, including those wearing veils.
By now, news stories of police seeing this or that on YouTube and catching stupid criminals are old hat.
The billions of youtube videos and facebook [...]

The story goes like this -
The Togolese national football team arrives for the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola.
Their bus gets shot up by brigands; three men are killed, nine injured.
The team goes back to Togo; the players ultimately decide that nothing *worse* could happen, why not play the tournament? The Togolese gov’t says, “No.”
The [...]

Billy Graham does simple well.
Really well.
He doesn’t argue. Doesn’t waste words. Doesn’t try to convince; simply states things.
Want to witness? Well, you need to know what to say. You need the power to say it.
Where do you get those?
Knowing what to say is simple – dwell on the Word of God and let it fill [...]

This is an extremely meaty article from the New Yorker on the Anglican Church in England.
It illustrates the ugliness of the Church when the power of God’s Spirit and action are eclipsed and when the shell of the institution is believed to be the whole.
I read that article and I was hurt by the squabbling [...]

I have successfully created a cake containing rutabaga.
Thank you; that is all.

I took my last downtown express bus ride this morning.
Sunday the train comes

When my friends and I are walking through the cold dark parking lot of the movie theatre, having just come from watching Hollywood’s latest offering, the first question asked is always, “Well, what did you think?”
Not, “What did you think?” in terms of abstract thought, but “What did you think?” as a reaction. “What did [...]

Naomi Elise
Rhymes with, ‘niece’
But the ode of her uncle
Regrettably stunkle.

Call it quantum, if you like.
Back when I measured my week’s worth of time, I kept a little notebook in my pocket. Coil notebooks are handy – if you have a short little pencil stub it fits nicely within the coil .
Having pencil and paper everywhere is a good thing.
I doubt I filled more than [...]