{"id":5692,"date":"2013-02-13T12:39:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T17:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5692"},"modified":"2013-02-13T12:39:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T17:39:13","slug":"things-heard-e248v3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5692","title":{"rendered":"Things Heard: e248v3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span>Well, I had PBJ\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wdtprs.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/remember-fast-and-abstinence\/\" target=\"_blank\">today because it&#8217;s Wednesday<\/a> (normal time Wed\/Fri fast)\u00a0.. Lent doesn&#8217;t start for me until Cheesefare on the evening of March 10. \u00a0So &#8230; why does the East begin Lent on a Monday and the West on a Wednesday and both count 40 days to Pascha\/Easter. Well, because the West doesn&#8217;t count Sundays as part of Lent but the East does &#8230; but the East doesn&#8217;t count Holy week as part of Lent. Got it? What I forget is whether the East includes Lazarus Saturday (before Palm Sunday) as part of Lent or not &#8230; and one might note that the Lenten\u00a0<em>fast <\/em>for the Orthodox continues (of course) through Holy Week.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Fer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/getreligion\/2013\/02\/palinphobia-hurts-journalism\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Ms Palin fans<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/340589\/doctor-jill-biden-jonah-goldberg\" target=\"_blank\">Doctor or not<\/a> &#8230; for myself I could not really care less if you call me Mr or Dr (and yes, I do have a PhD thing in Physics)<\/li>\n<li>That\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2013\/02\/13\/who-failed-chicago\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago way<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Awe\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5983956\/experiencing-awe-can-improve-your-life-satisfaction\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a>. Hmm, anything like the Psalmist noted the fear of God as the beginning of wisdom? How much modern man has learned, eh?<\/li>\n<li>Fear or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/2013\/02\/12\/skier-does-a-backflip-as-he-outruns-an-avalanche-thats-about-to-overtake-him\/\" target=\"_blank\">the lack thereof<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Notes for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.volokh.com\/2013\/02\/13\/arming-a-hobbyist-drone-with-a-paintball-gun\/\" target=\"_blank\">future gang wars<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2013\/02\/13\/rousseaus-shame-and-lena-dunhams\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shame<\/a> and armor.<\/li>\n<li>So, why\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/modeledbehavior\/2013\/02\/12\/what-we-need-is-a-randomized-minimum-wage\/\" target=\"_blank\">on earth does our President<\/a> think the &#8220;middle class&#8221; has any relevance to the minimum wage? And that&#8217;s an interesting take on min-wage, not as a wage limiter but a productivity minimum.<\/li>\n<li>Debunking (most of) some silliness around\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/motls.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/scientific-genius-isnt-extinct.html\" target=\"_blank\">the alleged dearth of geniuses<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>What you don&#8217;t want to see in the morning when\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2013\/02\/12\/woman-finds-live-owl-trapped-inside-grille-of-her-ford\/\" target=\"_blank\">you go out to your car<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Demographic shifts that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ricochet.com\/main-feed\/Demographic-Shifts-Are-Hitting-the-Muslim-World-Too\" target=\"_blank\">you don&#8217;t hear much about<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2013\/02\/top-drone-pilots-battle-at-elite-training-school\/\" target=\"_blank\">So much fun might<\/a> be had coming up with geekish instead of macho handles, so Maverick \u00a0and Goose becomes pocket protector-ized and pencil-necked?<\/li>\n<li>What will be needed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/13\/02\/12\/1650248\/connecting-android-phones-without-carrier-networks\" target=\"_blank\">for when revolution hits<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/phandroid.com\/2013\/02\/12\/samsung-exec-on-apple-litigation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Duh<\/a>. Truth to power becomes Stating the obvious to power.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Well, I had PBJ\u00a0today because it&#8217;s Wednesday (normal time Wed\/Fri fast)\u00a0.. Lent doesn&#8217;t start for me until Cheesefare on the evening of March 10. \u00a0So &#8230; why does the East begin Lent on a Monday and the West on a Wednesday and both count 40 days to Pascha\/Easter. Well, because the West doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-marko"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}