The Nautical Chart (2000) Arturo Perez-Reverte
Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
It took me awhile to get into The Nautical Chart. The other books I have read by Arturo Perez-Reverte have drawn me in immediately, but not so for this book. I started reading the book back in December, but kept picking up other books to read [...]
theomachy
noun (pl. theomachies) a war or struggle against God or among or against the gods.
origin late 16th cent. (denoting fighting against God): from Greek theomakhia, from theos ‘god’ + -makhia ‘fighting’.
You Passed the US Citizenship Test
Congratulations – you got 10 out of 10 correct!
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via Stereo Describes My Scenario
I may have mentioned before that the Morgantownies page on my website gets lots of visitors in spurts, and then nothing.
Well, January has been a busy month. Since the 19th I’ve gotten nine e-mails for page, eight of them with suggestions of additions, which is a lot for my site. Consider that the last two [...]
Inside Appalachia again has several excellent pieces about mine safety and the recent mine disasters.
The first report talks about the Alma mine fire, and has an interview with a beltman at the Alma mine. If what he says is true, then the legislation that was just passed isn’t going to be nearly enough.
The miner interviewed [...]
Happy New Year!
It’s the Year of the Dog, which is my year, so I’m hoping that in 4703 my luck is going to be a little better than it’s been so far for 2006.
And for amusement:
THE METAL DOG 1910 AND 1970
Metal Dogs have extremely high standards and expect a lot of themselves and of others. [...]
Some bits I’m just not willing to share with the entire internet.
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Friday Time Wasting: Serenity Quiz!
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Autism Spectrum Quotient Quiz
The test is interesting, but I don’t think I believe my score.
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You know, you read this as a plot in a novel, you’d say it was absolutely too ridiculous, and put the book back.
An Indian man has been living in a tree for the past 15 years despite passionate appeals by his mother to return home.
But wait! It gets better!
Kapila’s wife, Tulasi, began having “illicit relations” [...]
In case you were feeling good about your accomplishments, here’s a story of a ten-year old actor who is now directing his first movie.
I’ll give you an unusually long quote, because this was the part that struck me:
The film is about the street children who have no other address than the footpaths in India’s big [...]
The Black Forest (2004) Todd Livingston, Robert Tinnell, Neil Vokes
We (or more rightly Michael) picked this up at the Bookshelf in early December. Robert Tinnell lives in West Virginia–apparently relatively close, as Jim talked about calling him to bring by more copies. Michael read it right away, but I decided to wait until I needed [...]
If MSHA hasn’t been doing anything wrong, you wouldn’t know it by the actions of David Dye, who walked out of the hearings, saying he had more important things to do. (NY Times, Charleston Gazette)
Additionally, the WV legislature passed a major piece of Mine Safety Legislation yesterday. (Charleston Gazette, Charleson Daily Mail) It creates a [...]
This is from last week, but describes today perfectly:
splenetic \splih-NET-ik\ adjective
: marked by bad temper, malevolence, or spite
The Golden Key (1996) Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Roberson, Kate Elliot
At 889 pages, The Golden Key is a very long book. Admittedly, I have not had a lot of time for reading, but even so, more than a week for me to read a book is really slow. Part of the reason is that the first [...]
There are two good articles in the Charleston Gazette today about Mine Safety. One, by Ken Ward and the other an AP article.
Senator Byrd has arranged Senate hearings that look like they will be focusing on Mine Safety, as well as the MSHA budget (not to mention whether there was a top down push to [...]
Two more mining familes have lost their loved ones.
To paraphrase Governor Manchin, now is the time for morning. Later, after we put mourning aside, that is the time for righteous anger, and for questioning why such things are happening.
As I am not completely oblivious to the world around me because of my own whining…
There’s a mine fire in Logan County, and two miners are still unaccounted for.
The only good news is that it appears the mine rescue teams got there quickly.
Michael’s office is closing March 1st.
Anyone who knows of any jobs in the Morgantown area for someone who is four classes away from his CS degree, has a CCNA, and is currently working as a technical support person, lemme know.
ADDENDUM the First:
By the way, he already has a Bachelor’s degree. However, it is in Forestry.
The bad news that was here will reappear tomorrow.
Unfortunately it didn’t go away permamently.
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