short takes
Mar. 5th, 2004 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellio
I love it:
http://www.godhatesshrimp.com.
"Shrimp, crab, lobster, clams, mussels, all these are an
abomination before the Lord, just as gays are an abomination.
Why stop at protesting gay marriage? Bring all
of God's law unto the heathens and the sodomites." Thank you
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bodnej.
On a more somber note,
Chernobyl,
18 years later -- a photo tour. Link courtesy of bhakti.
Livejournal is currently running a poll on whether to allow people to hide individual people on the "friend of" list on the user-info page. (Personally, I don't see what all the fuss is about; the fact that someone reads my journal says nothing about my relationship to him. And you can hide the entire list if you like.) I just noticed that one suggestion that has been made many times in the past, most recently in the context of this poll, has been implemented, though. Go look at your info page; it no longer says "friend of", but the more accurate "read/trusted by". Interesting. They have not yet made the corresponding change, replacing "friends" with "reads/trusts". And I don't know where thing stand with splitting those ideas into two separate lists, which was talked about a couple months ago. (I imagine the UI, and switch-over, will be a bit of a challenge.)
I still owe some interviews (on both sides of the desk, so to speak); I'll get to them after Shabbat and Purim. I haven't forgotten about you.
We're having about a dozen people over for Purim lunch on Sunday. It should be fun. I went to the liquor store a few nights ago to stock up. (I don't actually anticipate that anyone is really going to get completely rip-roaring drunk; I don't think I'll run out of anything. But I want to offer variety, so I now have an assortment of wine, hard liquor, and what one friend calls "girly drinks", aka cordials.) Oh, and we're having some food too. :-) (I'm making brisket, wings, fish, and assorted side dishes.)
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Date: 2004-03-05 11:09 am (UTC)The biggest fuss was made when someone made a KKK_Membership journal and then started randomly adding friends left and right. Some people took offense to that.
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Date: 2004-03-05 11:17 am (UTC)But... I don't eat shellfish of any kind. I keep kosher, and I'm probably allergic, anyway (my mother is, she may have passed it to me), I'll never know.
Don't want to marry them, either. I don't like pinchers. :-)
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Date: 2004-03-05 12:16 pm (UTC)Maybe I'm just being tendentious and over-serious here, but ... I think (assuming that the site was put together to make fun of Christians who object to gay marriage and whatnot) that there are flaws in this line of logic. If I understand things correctly, Christianity says more or less that you don't need to follow all the halachos derived from the Chumash. In fact, I think there's a bit in the New Testament (though I have no idea of chapter and verse) that talks about the process whereby Yashke's disciples decided that eating treif was OK. However, there are (I have heard) bits of the New Testament that come out strongly against homosexuality. Leviticus is often cited with respect to this issue, but I don't think it has as much relevance for Christians as the stuff from the New Testament. As such, I think the premise of this site is flawed. (Yeah, grumpy ol' me.)
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Date: 2004-03-06 12:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
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