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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
Spectacular CME (Coronal Mass Ejection)
One of these days! From Spaceweather: MAGNIFICENT ERUPTION: On August 31st, a magnetic filament on the sun erupted in spectacular fashion, producing a long-duration solar flare, a coronal mass ejection (CME) and one of the most beautiful movies of an … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!, TEOTWAWKI
Tagged CME, Coronal Mass Ejection, solar flares
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3 Comments
A new Pontifical Academy for the Latin language? So it seems.
Given my response the other day, and the ensuing reactions, about seminaries and the TLM and the Latin language, the following is timely. The intrepid Andrea Tornielli has a piece today in Vatican Insider about a theoretical document from the … Read More
10 yr-old boy donates his film earnings to Mother Theresa’s sisters
The UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, usually provides us with the service each day of alerting us to a few interesting news items. I check it every day. Here is one the editor, Luke Coppen, found on UCANews (a … Read More
A voice from Mars!
And it ain’t Marvin the Martian. First, here is a very cool hi-def telephoto shot taken by Curiosity, the newest of the Mars rovers. The image of nearby Mt. Sharp was taken with a 100-millimeter telephoto lens and the 34-milllimeter … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Curiosity, Mars, Mars Rover
2 Comments
2 Comments
A special saintly chasuble
I picked this up from the blog Gem of the Ocean. Did you know that the Little Flower, St. Therese of Lisieux, made a chasuble? I didn’t. The abovementioned blog says: The chasuble garment itself was made from an old dress … Read More
Brick By Brick in Ireland
For your Brick By Brick file comes this good news. I learned from a friend (and I think the news is now getting around) that the Institute of Christ the King has obtained a church in Limerick, Ireland. The rather … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Just Too Cool, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged ICK, Ireland
7 Comments
7 Comments
Happy Birthday VOYAGER!
From NASA (and remember that Pres. Obama has killed the manned space program… just another reason to vote against him): August 20, 2012 Thirty-five years ago today, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, the first Voyager spacecraft to launch, departed on a … Read More
Of things canicular and stellar, haedine and sabine
We are in “the dog days of summer”. This phrase, for what is supposed to be the hottest part of the summer, believed by the ancients to be a time of bad omens, stems from the name of the bright … Read More
Ave Maria on From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-10-12 – Brainstorming!: ““I know how to look like I’m completely listening and that’ll make the guys feel like their voices are being…”
