Category Archives: Just Too Cool

ASTEROID “2012 KT42”? WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

From SpaceWeather: Space Weather News for May 29, 2012 ASTEROID FLYBY: A small asteroid is flying past Earth today inside the orbit of geosynchronous satellites and only 14,000 km above the surface of our planet. Named “2012 KT42,” the 3- … Read More

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Very Cool Stuff: A dad and IRLP (that’s Ham Radio lingo) and panning for gold

As some of you know, I have been studying for my Ham Radio license.  I am squared away with the Technician’s License material and could do that exam at any time, but right now life is really – excuse the … Read More

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UPDATE on the dust up in the Diocese of Madison and YOUR signs of support

Some time ago I wrote here about the sad situation in Platteville, WI, in the Diocese of Madison where His Excellency Most Rev. Robert C. Morlino is bishop. As you may remember, some liberals got their knickers in a knot … Read More

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Anglo-Saxon Window Glass Discovered at Glastonbury Abbey

From a reader for your Just Too Cool file: Anglo-Saxon Window Glass Discovered at Glastonbury Abbey (Somerset) New research led by the University of Reading has revealed that finds at Glastonbury Abbey provide the earliest archaeological evidence for glass-making in … Read More

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About that eclipse…

Via Spaceweather comes this for your “Just Too Cool” file comes this image, which depicts a scene that is, well, just too cool.  In my native place Minnesota! And here is the eclipse projected through leaves of a tree onto … Read More

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Some Swag

I have an ongoing project which plagues me (see my wishlist) and, in the midst of my travails, a box I had saved from Cafepress which I thought was empty turned up. When I made the new version of the … Read More

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Far and wide we should transition back to “ad orientem” worship

A reader sent two photos and a note.  First, the note: This morning EWTN televised Mass celebrated by the ordinary, Bishop Robert Baker, at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama. The occasion was the 50th Anniversary … Read More

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CNA: A rabbi sticks up for the SSPX and says to trust Pope Benedict.

This is pretty interesting. From CNA with my emphases: Trust Pope’s judgment on SSPX deal, senior rabbi says By David Kerr Rome, Italy, May 18, 2012 / 06:33 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A leading American rabbi and Holocaust refugee says people … Read More

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Headlines… differently

As some of you have read, I have been studying for the Ham Radio license exams. I have pretty much absorbed the Technician material, and have moved on to studying the General material.  I am also absorbing Morse Code. To … Read More

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This is a typical case of “equivalent canonization”.

About the elevation of St. Hildegard of Bingen the official role of saints of Holy Church.  I wrote about that HERE. I would add that cases of “equivalent canonization” are not exactly “typical” in the sense that they are common. … Read More

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