Orthodox Christians should write and paint and sing and dance. We should make
movies and television shows. We should make clothes and produce textiles as art
as well (the fullness of culture is itself too large to describe in a sentence,
a paragraph or even a book). And in all these activities, they will be
expressive of the fullness of our humanity without having to stick an icon on
everything to prove its Orthodoxy.
-- Father Stephen in Glory to God for All Things
This is a picture of Lionel, my Useless Blob.
He's really here, jumping up and down. To adopt your own Useless Blob, click on him.
![[christian fandom]](http://www.valdyas.org/~irina/blog/graphics/page/cf125x125.gif)
2008-03-31
You are Dutch, and if you’re not COME LIVE HERE! WE ARE YOUR SOULMATES!!! You have a great sense of humour and tolerance is pretty good too! A big plus for culture!
| Link: The how Dutch are you? Test written by Sandertje on OkCupid [advertising deleted] |
(spelling and punctuation corrected — apart from being a kaaskop, I can be pretty pedantic too)
2008-03-05
Except that I don’t understand half of it, but the percentages make sense. And I’m in good company, at least the ones I’ve heard of.
I’ve taken the liberty to correct a few typos (mostly misspelled names) and take the ad out of the credits link.
(long exposition, with pictures, after the cut)
2007-12-13
Picked it up somewhere; found it in different places.
Four films I could watch over and over:
The Three Musketeers (with Douglas Fairbanks)
Labyrinth
The Princess Bride
The Court Jester
Four favorite TV shows: (note: I haven’t watched TV at any length for over ten years)
Original Star Trek
Catweazle
Kunt u mij de weg naar Hamelen vertellen, meneer
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Four favorite foods:
Cheese
Anything in aspic, especially ham rolls with horseradish
Guinea-fowl
Chocolate
Four websites I visit every day:
Glory to God for All
Things
Slashfood
nu.nl
Boing Boing
Four places I would love to be:
London
The flat bit of Canada (failing that, eastern Groningen, preferably on a
bus)
Anywhere at the seaside
Beverwijk, strangely enough, because that’s where I used to go whenever I
needed a brain reboot when I was living in Haarlem
Four favorite colors:
#FFEBCD blanchedalmond (was my website background colour for years)
#8B0000 darkred
also, though all greens and most blues are off for my vision on a computer
screen:
#53868B cadetblue4
#228B22 forestgreen
Four names I love but wouldn’t/couldn’t use for a kid:
(these are names we didn’t actually use for kids, though they were considered)
Sara(h) - felt too much like an old woman’s name
Rachel - it wouldn’t have done to call twins something with the same
initial. But every year on the eve of the Sunday of the Fathers of the Old
Testament, singing the sticheron in the sixth tone about Sarah, Rebecca and
Rachel, I vaguely wish I’d known beforehand that I’d have three daughters
(though Prima and Tertia are glad I didn’t, they like the names they’ve
got).
Daniel - name for my first that didn’t make it. Also, for Younger Boy Twin, but
they were both girls.
Jonathan - name for Primus but she turned out Prima; also name for Elder-or-Only
Boy Twin, see above.
Four people to tag:
<points> You. And you. And you too. Oh, and you. If you feel called, don’t hesitate.
2006-03-31
| Thee | Summer Day | Score | |
| Name | Irina (51) | Tuesday 9th May (76) | 0 : 1 |
| Loveliness | Lovelier | Lovely | 1 : 1 |
| Temperature | 98.6° F | 60° F | 2 : 1 |
| Lease | 36.27 years | 0.59 years | 3 : 1 |
| Complexion | 4 : 1 | ||
| Eyes Can See | 2 | N/A | 6 : 1 |
| Irina is more lovely, and probably more temperate, than a summers day | |||
| Compare Me To A Summers Day | |||
