Got to mulling as we wind down yet another year because that’s what we humans do at the end of December and the beginning of January. I was helped along by a couple of recent, small epiphanies that crept into my chocolate-besotted brain and stuck there like glue.

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Have a touch of insomnia, so was up early, browsing the internet (a series of tubes, you know), and found the below boo-boo on the Nevada Appeal web site.  Clicking on the link takes the viewer to a blank template page.  There’s not a flood to be had, as you can see from the weather icon next to the newspaper’s logo at the top of the graphic.  The mistake may be a headline from 2005 or 1996.

This goes hand-in-hand with the Washington Post’s recent announcement that their senior editors will be more involved with how stories appear on their ten-year-old web site.  Shows my nativity: I thought editors were responsible for all of the content of their periodicals.  Not so much: the print versions (staid, 17th century) and on-line versions (hip-hop, 20th century) have different management infrastructures at many newspapers. News to me.

Continuing the tradition of the PostCard of the Week, courtesy of PostSecret:

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Haven’t been posting because I’ve been busy avoiding holiday merriment (joking), finishing up the end of the semester and starting my new job (what? you didn’t know?).

Got stuff brewing and will being boring y’all again soon.  In the meantime, hope you’re well and thinking positively about the new year.  Be happy.

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.”

Luke 2:8-14

Take twenty minutes and watch the best Christmas special of them all.

Merry Christmas, Everyone.

Continuing the tradition of the PostCard of the Week, courtesy of PostSecret:

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The picture after the jump is cute, but you know that somebody somewhere will look at this picture and seriously believe it’s a great idea.

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From the December 20th on-line edition of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Don’t recall the LVRJ so prominently mentioning the gender of the other (male) nominees.

Memo to Nevada’s largest newspaper: please join the 20th Century. Or at least the latter part of it.

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all . . .

a n d a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great, (not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country or is the only “AMERICA” in the western hemisphere), and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith, or choice of computer platform of the wishee.

(By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.)

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