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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
The Feeder Feed: Death From Above edition
I haven’t been home much lately, and so I haven’t been able to post much about the activity at the feeder. However, yesterday – I was without my camera – I was visited briefly by an American Bald Eagle! Very … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, The Feeder Feed
Tagged Bald Eagle, Death From Above, hawk, Mourning Dove, Piine Siskin, Starship Troopers
7 Comments
7 Comments
Experiment with iPhone app
I tried an interesting experiment last night with the Ustream app on my iPhone. I found, that I can – now – see the Z-Cam and hear Radio Sabina whereas I could not before, and there is a way also … Read More
The first podcasts of… Alexander Graham Bell: recovered!
This is for your Just Too Cool file from The History Blog, which has a very high cool quotient. Alexander Graham Bell. Bell, his cousin Chicester Bell and their colleague Charles Sumner Tainter created a business called Volta Laboratory Associates … Read More
NYC: Nativity Scene at Central Park
I’ll definitely be checking this out when I get there. From the Catholic League: Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: Today we erected a life-size nativity scene in Central Park, on the corner of 59th and 5th; it … Read More
Christmas Cookie Recipe (New, Corrected Translation)
UPDATE 17 Dec 1405 GMT: I originally thought this was from some seminarians. I received it my email and without an attribution. I have since learned that it was originally posted on Commonweal. You can find their page HERE. By … Read More
“Whatever comes out of these gates, we have better chance of survival if we work together”
Before I go off to sleep … after the GOP debate, I am watching a bit of the movie Gladiator. I have a certain affinity with the protagonist. I, too… well… never mind. And I can imagine some liberal bishop … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Lighter fare
Tagged costume, exploitation of women, gladiator, Russell Crowe
12 Comments
12 Comments
Sodom and Gomorrah excavated. Guess how they were wiped out.
A reading from the Book of Genesis: Gen 19: 24 Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomor’rah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; 25 and he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the … Read More
A great Shadow… with a few book notes.
There is a very cool pic on Astronomy Pic of the Day. There was recently a lunar eclipse. I missed it because I was in Florida where it rained for about 4 solid days without CEASING. But that’s another story. … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Copernicus, Dava Sobel, Galileo, Longitude, lunar eclipse
9 Comments
9 Comments
Learning Latin responses for the TLM
Every once in a while I get a request to record the Latin responses for the TLM so that people who want to serve Mass can learn them more easily. A friend sent me a link to online recordings made … Read More
Wyoming Catholic College Video
From time to time I have mentioned Wyoming Catholic College, which trains students in a modified form of the Trivium and Quadrivium, and makes sure they know their Latin, have the TLM, and how to take care of a horse. … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, The Campus Telephone Pole
Tagged great books, Quadrivium, Trivium, Wyoming Catholic College
47 Comments
47 Comments
Brian64 on 21 Oct – St Gaspar del Bufalo – “Hammer of Freemasons”: “And here I always thought Archbishop Bugnini was “Hammer of Freemasons”. Oh, he was “Hammer FOR Freemasons”.”
