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Too funny! The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), consisting basically of Rev. Fred Phelps and his rather mentally askew family protested outside the offices of Twitter in San Francisco. There were counter-protesters at the ready with some truly delightful signs. A personal fave: God hates #tags! – a reference to the church’s official site, God . . . → Read More: Westboro Baptist Church Protests, Gets Protested Outside Twitter – Asylum.com I woke up feeling geeky this morning. Admittedly, when don’t I? It occurred to me that there is a fair amount of time we have an event at the Erie Gay News web site that has a URL to RSVP/register/buy tickets for, so why not add a field to link for that? That might . . . → Read More: RSVP/Registration links added to Erie Gay News calendar Today, I went to the viewing of Mary Ellen, whom I knew years ago as Rannveigr when I was in the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). She was a deeply kind and calm person. I can’t remember ever hear her say a harsh word. She was also very dedicated to helping others. This . . . → Read More: Rannveigr Remembered Don’t tell me I don’t know how to multi-task! I was home for lunch on Monday and was trying to get the envelopes and labels generated and set up for the folding of Erie Gay News this Thursday. (And I got notice earlier today that the order has shipped, so it looks like we . . . → Read More: A busy Monday Three cheers for my 3rd cousin! He found the grave site of our great great grandmother, Anna Mahler, in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Rochester NY. The stone had sunk into the ground. A blogger friend in Germany has been very kind and helpful in trying to get more info. . . . → Read More: More ancestry stuff A cousin found this and sent it my way. This is a page from the 1880 census. On line 42 is my great-great grandfather, John Mahler, who was a blacksmith. He was born about 1844 or so, and died about 1888. His wife was Anna Mahler, and the census lists their 3 kids . . . → Read More: John Mahler – 1880 Census – My great great grandparents (direct paternal) I was going through rather a whirlwind of posting and geek stuff tonight, when I got an email from a friend. She informed me that someone I knew fairly well years ago, but with whom I have lost touch, has been diagnosed with a very serious illness, and things do not look well for . . . → Read More: Sad news Nate Silver rightly points out here that it is not clear where causation might lie. However, I think that anyone could find meaningful statistical data that supports the absurd claim that denying same-sex couples equality under law IN ANY WAY harms the marriages of opposite sex couples. To put it more simply, the same . . . → Read More: FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Divorce Rates Higher in States with Gay Marriage Bans I had some problems with the update to Movable Type 5. I think it is dumb stuff that I did. Shortened URLs from old tweets seem to fail, but new ones seem okay. Going to the main blog page and clicking on an entry now seems to work. I am using this as an . . . → Read More: Redesigned blog |
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