Today is Holy Saturday, the day before Easter. It is the seventh and final day of Holy Week, and part of the second day of the Easter Triduum. It officially ends at dusk tonight, so Easter celebrations can actually begin this evening. Before this point, however, celebration of mass is prohibited and Holy Communion is [...]
Today is Good Friday, the Friday just before Easter, when we commemorate the crucifixion and death of Jesus. Good Friday is a holy day for Christians, meaning that we are to pray and fast and are allowed only one full meal and no meat (as it is Friday).
There is no official mass on Good Friday, [...]
Social networking sites have been the craze of late, with everyone and their mother and their brother on MySpace, Facebook, Friendster and the like. There is, however, one new social networking site that you definitely do not want to be on; although that choice might not always be up to you.
GetThemLaid.com exists to do exactly [...]
In the latest bit of Internet free speech restriction, the Kingdom of Thailand has banned YouTube from the entire country. Yesterday Thai telecom blocked the video-sharing site because of a 44 second clip in which revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej was shown in photos that had been defaced.
In one shot, a pink Afro and red clown [...]
I don’t want to spoil this for anyone so let me just say this guy is amazing, I can’t even do this on Wii Sports.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LFUVGaasAc
Today we celebrate Holy Thursday, or Maundy Thursday depending upon where you are, to commemorate the Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles. In total four events are celebrated today: the washing of the disciples’ feet by Jesus, the institution of the Mystery of the Holy Eucharist at the Last Supper, the agony of [...]
Lately as I’ve been surfing around the blogosphere I’ve seen a lot of blogs where the author writes down a bunch of their stats with respect to geek stuff (computer, OS, etc.) Having always thought this was a pretty cool thing to do, I have added a section to my about page that details my [...]
Today is Spy Wednesday, the final Wednesday of Lent during the Holy Week leading up to Easter this Sunday. It is on this day that we recognize Judas Iscariot as first conspiring with the Sanhedrin to betray Jesus for 30 silver coins. Thus, today would be a good time to look inside yourself and see [...]
Day in and day out I come across thousands of people. New York City truly is an urban jungle with all sorts of people who will walk all over you if you let them. Everyday I encounter people doing things that are beyond rude and impolite, and here are some of the worst ones:
5) People [...]
I stumbled across this picture while on my train home from work today and thought it would be a worthy post. The sad part about it is that although it’s stereotyping at the highest of levels, it’s more than true for over half of Americans I’d say.
(courtesy of http://www.shof.msrcsites.co.uk)
What’s even sadder is that I’d bet [...]