Since it is past April Fools Day, I won't post these as real articles...

 From InsideCatholic.com:

Priest with Annulment Charism Starts Lay Movement

SAN ANTONIO -- A priest who claims he has been gifted with the charism of annulment has created a lay movement to help Catholics answer the call to invalidate marriages. Rev. George Finnegan of St. Thomas More Catholic Church in San Antonio said he got the call to start the movement, which he has named Annulitas, after several couples he counseled began having severe marriage problems and divorced. "I took that as a sign that I could be used as a tool for something," Finnegan said.

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jgjackson  - Off Topic   |2008-04-07 15:44:47 I can't find a link anywhere for creating a Journal entry. Obviously, it's possible. Am I missing something?

wezlo  - in progress   |2008-04-07 15:56:25 We're working on it....

patronpeter  - oh!   |2008-04-07 17:41:48 never mind that last email then...

emperorbma   |2008-04-07 18:31:29 I thought I mentioned that Journals weren't up yet in my email. :P

patronpeter   |2008-04-07 18:42:00 ... memory of a swedish fishy?...

emperorbma   |2008-04-07 18:57:03 ... maybe "swiss cheese brain" to quote Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell.

OrionBlastar   |2008-04-07 19:25:19 You're really making a quantum leap of faith there. :)

emperorbma   |2008-04-07 19:29:24 Yes! Someone gets the reference! :P

wezlo   |2008-04-07 19:30:56 I remember when Dean Stockwell did a guest spot on Star Trek:Enterprise - we were all wondering when he would take out the stupid pocket computer and star whacking it on the side to get it to work.

emperorbma   |2008-04-07 19:35:02 LOL, yeah Ziggy didn't always get him the results eh? I was kind of intrigued when I found he got a role on BSG as Cavil.

wezlo   |2008-04-07 19:38:40 That's my favorite cylon.

emperorbma   |2008-04-07 19:44:36 Yeah, Cavil is certainly an interesting character among the Cylons.

metallurge  - BSG   |2008-04-07 19:46:09 By the way, wezlo, it was largely due to your recommendation that I finally broke down and watched the BSG mini series on DVD, and got myself hooked. Thanks. I think. ;-) It is equally as disconcerting to see Dean Stockwell as a cylon as it is to see Scott Bakula in command of the Enterprise. In both cases, when I see them, it's like there is a rift in the space-time continuum. But yes, among a group of very interesting cylon characters, Cavil is among the most interesting. We don't get to see him enough, though. I'm right now about halfway through season 3 on DVD, and I'm glad to see more of him this season. BSG would make a pretty good basis for an ethics class.

emperorbma   |2008-04-07 19:52:09 Quote: BSG would make a pretty good basis for an ethics class. One word: Yes

OrionBlastar  - BSD ethics?   |2008-04-07 20:16:53 Did you know that if you apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon Five problem using BSG ethics that you end up on the deck of Moya running from Peacekeepers? Don't believe me, ask John Crichton. :)

emperorbma   |2008-04-07 20:22:52 Am I showing my geekiness by admitting that I got every one of those references? Perchance has anyone seen Lexx?

grizzly   |2008-04-07 20:34:15 You're not the only one who got them all.

wezlo   |2008-04-07 20:51:58 Though I never did get "into" Lexx - I still miss Farscape. Frell!!! Anyone see the homage to Farscape in the 200th episode of Stargate SG-1?

emperorbma   |2008-04-07 20:57:11 Yeah, the crossover thing is really sweet.

wezlo   |2008-04-07 21:38:54 You have to steal from a show no one has ever heard of!

emperorbma   |2008-04-07 21:44:15 Well, I've seen it at least. I was worried after that episode where they were crystallized that it would be the end of it. I kinda like what they did with the conclusion movie though.

wezlo   |2008-04-07 21:51:33 Yes, I just thought the line was funny, and the peacekeeper wars was well-done...

shamrockshake  - wow...   |2008-04-08 18:55:53 and I thought I was a sci-fi geek ;-)

wezlo   |2008-04-08 20:04:47 dood, you got nothing on me. NOTHING!

grizzly   |2008-04-07 20:38:39 But only if you encounter Red Dwarf as it emerges from a Stargate, and your Tardis malfunctions.

emperorbma   |2008-04-07 20:47:43 I never really watched much Red Dwarf, but Doctor Who is getting a prominent place on SciFi lately. As for Stargate *, do we need to ask if I've seen it? :P BTW, is it me or did patronpeter disappear from the discussion after we took the Quantum Leap?

wezlo  - re: BSG   |2008-04-07 20:50:51 metallurge wrote: BSG would make a pretty good basis for an ethics class. I've actually contemplated doing a Sunday School class simultaneously reading the Sermon on the Mount and watching the episodes on New Caprica.  If that doesn't stimulate thinking, then you're brain-dead.

metallurge  - re: BSG   |2008-04-07 20:55:09 wezlo wrote: BSG would make a pretty good basis for an ethics class. I've actually contemplated doing a Sunday School class simultaneously reading the Sermon on the Mount and watching the episodes on New Caprica.  If that doesn't stimulate thinking, then you're brain-dead. Yep. Accessible examples are good.

OrionBlastar  - Star Trek: Enterprise   |2008-04-07 20:13:31 Some people joke that Dr. Sam Beckett leaped into the body of Captain Jonathan Archer and wasn't able to figure out what he was supposed to correct to fix the time line, so he ended up ruining federation history and canceling the show. What he was really supposed to do was sign a birthday card for T'Pol so that Earth and Vulcan can form a better alliance for sharing technology like the tractor beam by setting up a relational trust between humans and vulcans that would result in Mr. Spock's parents meeting. But he blew it, and Albert "Al" Calavicci ended up with Ziggy inside his head and became a Cylon in the BSG universe instead of a hologram in the other universe.

emperorbma   |2008-04-07 20:18:00 ROtFL

grizzly   |2008-04-07 20:42:30 That actually explains a lot of what went wrong. :)

emperorbma   |2008-04-07 20:50:10 Yup, Ziggy is a Cylon. I would never have guessed the awful truth.

wezlo   |2008-04-07 20:53:04 ohmygosh - that's like the best explanation ever!!!

OrionBlastar  - What email?   |2008-04-07 19:24:40 I didn't get an email. I found this new place via the link on the old Christdot page. I didn't even know it was up yet. Sorry but my telepathy and clairvoyance seem to be on the fritz recently. So I had to resort to guessing that the mailing list from Christdot about Theopiles either is broken or doesn't exist. Either that or the email fell into a black hole on the Internet.

wezlo   |2008-04-07 19:28:02 No, the e-mail was in the admin discussion leading to the opening of the site - entity was just saying, "I think I remember..." as a way of conveying information. No telepathy needed.

Entity  - No link yet   |2008-04-07 15:58:19 Grizzly is working on it, but doesn't have it up yet. I would say to use the feedback page, but that doesn't exist yet either. I believe the donations page has a place for comments though, so you could put it in there. (Just kidding!) If you want to PM it to me or one of the other admins, we could post it for you. However, right now there is no flag for PMs, so it may be a little bit before we notice it. You may want to PM it to a few admins to get it posted. I'm not sure how long before Grizzly gets this up. It is on his high priority list. Unfortunately, only a few of the admins possess the skills needed to alter the site (and I'm not one of them).

jgjackson  - Long comments truncated   |2008-04-07 15:49:24 I'm also seeing all the comments truncated on the right, making them largely unintelligible.

Entity  - Long comments truncated   |2008-04-07 15:52:03 I've experienced this with both IE and Opera. Mozilla seems to work fine for reading comments though.

patronpeter   |2008-04-07 17:43:48 is trunkated another word for "some of the words are missing"? 'cause then i don't feel like such a computer screw-up if i'm not the only one. :-)

emperorbma   |2008-04-07 18:29:33 Yes, truncated basically means it cut off the end and letters and sometimes whole words are missing.

patronpeter   |2008-04-07 18:42:38 k... so how do i read the rest of a....

emperorbma   |2008-04-07 18:59:17 As far as I know, by using Firefox? I think all the folks setting it up were using Firefox and never had truncation issues. :P Either that or write a hateful letter to Redmond USA about how Internet Exploder doesn't properly implement standards and how you are collecting signatures for a lawsuit against Microsoft. :P

metallurge  - re: IE/Opera incompatibility   |2008-04-07 19:22:38 emperorbma wrote: As far as I know, by using Firefox? I think all the folks setting it up were using Firefox and never had truncation issues. :P Either that or write a hateful letter to Redmond USA about how Internet Exploder doesn't properly implement standards and how you are collecting signatures for a lawsuit against Microsoft. :P Well, that said, it would be nice if the site also rendered properly in IE & Opera. As an aside, ThP does respectably on Blazer, Palm's web browser, which had trouble with X. Well, it does respectably except for posting comments at the wrong nesting level, apparently. I think this whole exercise was somewhat remarkable, that we got to where ThP is a functional foundation by the time X. closed. Given the productivity of the team (yo, grizzly!) so far, I don't doubt that things will continue to develop at a reasonable pace.

emperorbma   |2008-04-07 19:27:25 Yeah, you're right... I still think Microsoft deserves a flame or two for standards incompatibility, though. :P

metallurge   |2008-04-07 19:56:52 Surely. Flame on. But the fact that Opera also fails to render properly indicates to me that there may be something else going on, too. Opera isn't usually half-bad.

laika   |2008-04-07 23:06:27 theophiles looks good on SeaMonkey, FWIW.

emperorbma   |2008-04-07 23:08:19 Thanks for the good report.

patronpeter   |2008-04-07 19:46:49 yeah, so.. i can't download firefox here... have to do it at home now... anywho, thanks for the explanation... internet exploder? is that a mistype?

metallurge  - re: Firefox   |2008-04-07 19:53:58 patronpeter wrote: yeah, so.. i can't download firefox here... have to do it at home now... anywho, thanks for the explanation... internet exploder? is that a mistype? There is a download of Firefox called "Portable Firefox" (google it).  Basically, it's a version of Firefox that doesn't install to a computer. So you can, for example, download Portable Firefox at home, "install"/copy Portable Firefox to a USB thumb drive, set it up, and carry your custom-bookmarked custom-extensioned password-saved browser environment around with you on your keychain. Just pop in the thumb drive, and run from there. It installs no files to the local hard drive, so unless your employer has locked down the system against thumb drives, you have a pretty good chance of it working even at work. It sounds harder than it is.

patronpeter   |2008-04-07 20:18:24 you are a genius, you get a gold star.

emperorbma   |2008-04-07 19:54:28 It's a play on words intended to indicate disdain for "Internet Explorer" because it destroys the beauty of the Internet. :P

patronpeter   |2008-04-07 20:18:08 oh!

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