TDDPirate’s Ideas

Yesterday, USA elected the next President. Obama won the elections by clear cut margin. There was higher than usual turnout of voters.

Next Tuesday, on Nov. 11^th, there will be municipal elections in Israel. In some cities, in particular Jerusalem, the elections will have critical importance.

I’d like to urge everyone eligible to vote - to vote in those elections.

Remember, if you do not bother to vote, you in effect are voting for the candidate you hate the most!

… which is in stark contrast to the ultra-Orthodox attitude against people with disabilities.

The captioned (in Hebrew) video clip is the second video in http://www.hofesh.org.il/articles/books/books.html (in Hebrew), and it is about a book shop, which avoids displaying an anti-religion book due to threats from the town’s rabbi’s wife.

The Lord God:

Source: The 40 most memorable aliens

Reply to this and I will…

1. Tell you why I befriended you.
2. Associate you with a song/movie.
3. Tell a random fact about you.
4. Tell my first memory of you.
5. Associate you with an animal/fruit.
6. Ask something I’ve always wanted to know about you.
7. In return, you MUST spread this disease in your lj.

(Inspired by moshez)

• The bastards stole my car shortly before it was going to need overhaul!
• My car succumbed to the charms of a car thief and eloped with him.
• My car has been organlegged (inspired by Larry Niven).
• I suspect that my car was enlisted to assist in a bank robbery.
• My car was sold, in exchange for $0 and notification of the police, to a car thief.
• The powers from the Guild of Car Thieves decided for me that it is the time to explore the antics of public transportation and my friends’ cars, as a passenger.

According to Dale Carnegie, God gave humans two ears and only one mouth so that they’ll speak less and listen more.
For deaf people, it is two eyes vs. one mouth.
What about exterrestrials with two mouths and one ear? If they have a Dale Carnegie, he would have said to them that this is what they got because speech is cheap - they got two mouths - but listening is precious - they have only one ear for this.

World of potential for mercy and compassion,
of room for grace and reconciliation,
teach all your children in the Middle East:
Jews, Muslims and Christians,
Bahai’s, Druzes and Buddhists,
Atheists and Agnosticians,
Palestinians and Israelis and Syrians and Iranians,
Let us value and love our fellow human beings
more than we value our beliefs, God or Gods.
Let hatred be turned into love, fear to trust, despair to hope,
oppression to freedom, occupation to liberation,
that violent encounters may be replaced by loving embraces,
and peace and justice could be experienced by all.
Let us swear that we shall never let Gods incite war and hatred among human beings.
Amen

Instructions:

Take a look at your LJ friends list, then list up to ten things you want to say to ten different LJ friends. DO NOT state who these people are. DO NOT confirm or deny any “comment speculation.”.

1. Are there any news about that idea, which we discussed few weeks ago?
2. You accepted a big challenge and were successful in dealing with it.
3. Thanks again for the URL to that Web site.
4. Your posts have the quality, which draws out of me creativity in composing comments.
5. I owe you for those interesting contacts, to which you led me.
6. Congratulations!

My LJ friends list is relatively short, so I have only six comments.

This creates a problem when one wants to discuss the state of worshipping in the context of Perl.
bless is a reserved word in Perl, and it has a specific technical meaning.

Roget’s Thesaurus came to my rescue. It offered me three alternative words: hallow, consecrate, sanctify.

Now we can start hallowing whatever is holy and sacred in the magnificent language Perl.

You haven’t made an impact on the world before you caused a Debian release to be named after Snufkin.