<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u2014 1 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\nEaster is coming, and I\u2019ve had a link stored up for a long time that I\u2019ve been practically bursting<\/em> to share with you all.<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5888833\/how-to-make-an-egg-explode\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">io9 has a nice explanation<\/a> of the physics of this trick. \u00a0Once you fill a hollow egg with hydrogen gas and wave a match over the top:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It burns like a very ineffective gas lamp for a while, showing little flame, while the hydrogen leaks out the top. The egg, for a while, remains unscathed. The column of hydrogen leaking out the top is exposed to oxygen, which is necessary for oxidization, or burning. The inside of the egg is full of the stuff that blew up the Hindenburg, but the shell remains intact. If the egg really is full of hydrogen, any hydrogen gas inside won\u2019t have any oxygen nearby, and so it won\u2019t burn. As the hydrogen leaks out the top, though, oxygen rushes in through the bottom hole to fill up the vacuum left by the departing gas. At some point, there\u2019s enough oxygen in the egg to start the hydrogen burning, at which point the entire egg is blown apart. And yes, it looks cool, especially in slow motion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 2 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also obligatory for the Easter weekend is this xkcd comic:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1035\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"When they moved production from New Zealand to the UK and switched from the runny white centers to the thick, frosting-like filling, it got way harder to cook them scrambled.\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/cadbury_eggs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"211\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 3 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"red eggs\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-gq8MnSM05T4\/TcVIJ1cDOvI\/AAAAAAAAGe4\/DXURnMzSVAY\/s1600\/redegg_game.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"207\"><\/p>\n<p>The kind of Christianity I usually engage with on this blog is Catholicism, but I have a number of Orthodox friends who introduce me to different traditions and practices (of which my favorite is <a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxwiki.org\/Forgiveness_Sunday\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Forgiveness Sunday<\/a>). \u00a0Given my pugilistic tendencies, I\u2019m going to have to stop by one of their celebrations to play <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Egg_tapping\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">tsougrisma<\/a> \u2014 a game where you tap eggs together and try to smash your opponent\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 4 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"tie-dyed eggs\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-W3Sa8FH_ADU\/T3XMg2IfpaI\/AAAAAAAAQLE\/QIMX0MV8YWk\/s1600\/ties+easter+eggs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\"><\/p>\n<p>Eggs used for GAME are supposed to be red, but if you\u2019re branching out, I found these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mommyknows.com\/silk-tie-dye-easter-eggs-tutorial\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">instructions for transferring the patterns of silk ties to eggs<\/a> via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/coloring-easter-eggs-using-old-silk.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">TYWKIWDBI<\/a>. \u00a0They look awesome, and you can usually find ties at a thrift store.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 5 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And speaking of making, I was blown away by <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/2012\/03\/27\/john-muirs-maker-days\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Make Magazine\u2019s excerpt<\/a> from the memoirs of young John Muir (available in full from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/18359\/18359-h\/18359-h.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>). \u00a0I was scrolling too fast through my RSS reader, and the inventions were so cool I assumed I was reading really delightful fiction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The winter was very cold, and I had to go to the schoolhouse and start the fire about eight o\u2019clock to warm it before the arrival of the scholars. This was a rather trying job, and one that my clock might easily be made to do. Therefore, after supper one evening I told the head of the family with whom I was boarding that if he would give me a candle I would go back to the schoolhouse and make arrangements for lighting the fire at eight o\u2019clock, without my having to be present until time to open the school at nine. He said, \u201cOh! young man, you have some curious things in the school-room, but I don\u2019t think you can do that.\u201d I said, \u201cOh, yes! It\u2019s easy,\u201d and in hardly more than an hour the simple job was completed. I had only to place a teaspoonful of powdered chlorate of potash and sugar on the stove-hearth near a few shavings and kindling, and at the required time make the clock, through a simple arrangement, touch the inflammable mixture with a drop of sulphuric acid. Every evening after school was dismissed, I shoveled out what was left of the fire into the snow, put in a little kindling, filled up the big box stove with heavy oak wood, placed the lighting arrangement on the hearth, and set the clock to drop the acid at the hour of eight; all this requiring only a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The first morning after I had made this simple arrangement I invited the doubting farmer to watch the old squat schoolhouse from a window that overlooked it, to see if a good smoke did not rise from the stovepipe. Sure enough, on the minute, he saw a tall column curling gracefully up through the frosty air, but instead of congratulating me on my success he solemnly shook his head and said in a hollow, lugubrious voice, \u201cYoung man, you will be setting fire to the schoolhouse.\u201d All winter long that faithful clock fire never failed, and by the time I got to the schoolhouse the stove was usually red-hot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt6\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 6 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And since I really ran out of Easter links i, so just enjoy this very creative silent, stop-motion film (<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5898871\/a-lovely-short-movie-about-life-at-a-magic-lightbulb-factory\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">found via io9<\/a>):<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Luminaris\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/24051768?dnt=1&app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt7\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 7 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/04\/qa-with-libby-anne-of-love-joy-feminism.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">I interviewed Libby Anne<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Love Joy\u00a0Feminism<\/a> (the newest addition to the Atheism team on Patheos) as a getting-to-know-you and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2012\/04\/qa-with-leah-of-unequally-yoked.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">she posted her own interview of me<\/a>. \u00a0But if you want a <em>really<\/em> fast introduction, maybe this graphic of me will do the trick (it was part of a friend\u2019s illustration of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dungeons and Dragons alignment system<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/84\/2012\/04\/lawful-good.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2573\" title=\"lawful good\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/84\/2012\/04\/lawful-good.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"206\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For more Quick Takes, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversiondiary.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Conversion Diary!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014 1 \u2014 Easter is coming, and I\u2019ve had a link stored up for a long time that I\u2019ve been practically bursting to share with you all. io9 has a nice explanation of the physics of this trick. \u00a0Once you fill a hollow egg with hydrogen gas and wave a match over the top: It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-7-quick-takes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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<\/a>\u2014 1 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\nEaster is coming, and I\u2019ve had a link stored up for a long time that I\u2019ve been practically bursting<\/em> to share with you all.<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5888833\/how-to-make-an-egg-explode\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">io9 has a nice explanation<\/a> of the physics of this trick. \u00a0Once you fill a hollow egg with hydrogen gas and wave a match over the top:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It burns like a very ineffective gas lamp for a while, showing little flame, while the hydrogen leaks out the top. The egg, for a while, remains unscathed. The column of hydrogen leaking out the top is exposed to oxygen, which is necessary for oxidization, or burning. The inside of the egg is full of the stuff that blew up the Hindenburg, but the shell remains intact. If the egg really is full of hydrogen, any hydrogen gas inside won\u2019t have any oxygen nearby, and so it won\u2019t burn. As the hydrogen leaks out the top, though, oxygen rushes in through the bottom hole to fill up the vacuum left by the departing gas. At some point, there\u2019s enough oxygen in the egg to start the hydrogen burning, at which point the entire egg is blown apart. And yes, it looks cool, especially in slow motion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 2 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also obligatory for the Easter weekend is this xkcd comic:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1035\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"When they moved production from New Zealand to the UK and switched from the runny white centers to the thick, frosting-like filling, it got way harder to cook them scrambled.\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/cadbury_eggs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"211\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 3 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"red eggs\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-gq8MnSM05T4\/TcVIJ1cDOvI\/AAAAAAAAGe4\/DXURnMzSVAY\/s1600\/redegg_game.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"207\"><\/p>\n<p>The kind of Christianity I usually engage with on this blog is Catholicism, but I have a number of Orthodox friends who introduce me to different traditions and practices (of which my favorite is <a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxwiki.org\/Forgiveness_Sunday\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Forgiveness Sunday<\/a>). \u00a0Given my pugilistic tendencies, I\u2019m going to have to stop by one of their celebrations to play <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Egg_tapping\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">tsougrisma<\/a> \u2014 a game where you tap eggs together and try to smash your opponent\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 4 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"tie-dyed eggs\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-W3Sa8FH_ADU\/T3XMg2IfpaI\/AAAAAAAAQLE\/QIMX0MV8YWk\/s1600\/ties+easter+eggs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\"><\/p>\n<p>Eggs used for GAME are supposed to be red, but if you\u2019re branching out, I found these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mommyknows.com\/silk-tie-dye-easter-eggs-tutorial\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">instructions for transferring the patterns of silk ties to eggs<\/a> via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/coloring-easter-eggs-using-old-silk.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">TYWKIWDBI<\/a>. \u00a0They look awesome, and you can usually find ties at a thrift store.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 5 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And speaking of making, I was blown away by <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/2012\/03\/27\/john-muirs-maker-days\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Make Magazine\u2019s excerpt<\/a> from the memoirs of young John Muir (available in full from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/18359\/18359-h\/18359-h.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>). \u00a0I was scrolling too fast through my RSS reader, and the inventions were so cool I assumed I was reading really delightful fiction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The winter was very cold, and I had to go to the schoolhouse and start the fire about eight o\u2019clock to warm it before the arrival of the scholars. This was a rather trying job, and one that my clock might easily be made to do. Therefore, after supper one evening I told the head of the family with whom I was boarding that if he would give me a candle I would go back to the schoolhouse and make arrangements for lighting the fire at eight o\u2019clock, without my having to be present until time to open the school at nine. He said, \u201cOh! young man, you have some curious things in the school-room, but I don\u2019t think you can do that.\u201d I said, \u201cOh, yes! It\u2019s easy,\u201d and in hardly more than an hour the simple job was completed. I had only to place a teaspoonful of powdered chlorate of potash and sugar on the stove-hearth near a few shavings and kindling, and at the required time make the clock, through a simple arrangement, touch the inflammable mixture with a drop of sulphuric acid. Every evening after school was dismissed, I shoveled out what was left of the fire into the snow, put in a little kindling, filled up the big box stove with heavy oak wood, placed the lighting arrangement on the hearth, and set the clock to drop the acid at the hour of eight; all this requiring only a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The first morning after I had made this simple arrangement I invited the doubting farmer to watch the old squat schoolhouse from a window that overlooked it, to see if a good smoke did not rise from the stovepipe. Sure enough, on the minute, he saw a tall column curling gracefully up through the frosty air, but instead of congratulating me on my success he solemnly shook his head and said in a hollow, lugubrious voice, \u201cYoung man, you will be setting fire to the schoolhouse.\u201d All winter long that faithful clock fire never failed, and by the time I got to the schoolhouse the stove was usually red-hot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt6\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 6 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And since I really ran out of Easter links i, so just enjoy this very creative silent, stop-motion film (<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5898871\/a-lovely-short-movie-about-life-at-a-magic-lightbulb-factory\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">found via io9<\/a>):<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Luminaris\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/24051768?dnt=1&app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt7\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 7 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/04\/qa-with-libby-anne-of-love-joy-feminism.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">I interviewed Libby Anne<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Love Joy\u00a0Feminism<\/a> (the newest addition to the Atheism team on Patheos) as a getting-to-know-you and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2012\/04\/qa-with-leah-of-unequally-yoked.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">she posted her own interview of me<\/a>. \u00a0But if you want a <em>really<\/em> fast introduction, maybe this graphic of me will do the trick (it was part of a friend\u2019s illustration of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dungeons and Dragons alignment system<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/84\/2012\/04\/lawful-good.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2573\" title=\"lawful good\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/84\/2012\/04\/lawful-good.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"206\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For more Quick Takes, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversiondiary.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Conversion Diary!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014 1 \u2014 Easter is coming, and I\u2019ve had a link stored up for a long time that I\u2019ve been practically bursting to share with you all. io9 has a nice explanation of the physics of this trick. \u00a0Once you fill a hollow egg with hydrogen gas and wave a match over the top: It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-7-quick-takes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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Easter is coming, and I\u2019ve had a link stored up for a long time that I\u2019ve been practically bursting<\/em> to share with you all.<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5888833\/how-to-make-an-egg-explode\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">io9 has a nice explanation<\/a> of the physics of this trick. \u00a0Once you fill a hollow egg with hydrogen gas and wave a match over the top:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It burns like a very ineffective gas lamp for a while, showing little flame, while the hydrogen leaks out the top. The egg, for a while, remains unscathed. The column of hydrogen leaking out the top is exposed to oxygen, which is necessary for oxidization, or burning. The inside of the egg is full of the stuff that blew up the Hindenburg, but the shell remains intact. If the egg really is full of hydrogen, any hydrogen gas inside won\u2019t have any oxygen nearby, and so it won\u2019t burn. As the hydrogen leaks out the top, though, oxygen rushes in through the bottom hole to fill up the vacuum left by the departing gas. At some point, there\u2019s enough oxygen in the egg to start the hydrogen burning, at which point the entire egg is blown apart. And yes, it looks cool, especially in slow motion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 2 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also obligatory for the Easter weekend is this xkcd comic:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1035\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"When they moved production from New Zealand to the UK and switched from the runny white centers to the thick, frosting-like filling, it got way harder to cook them scrambled.\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/cadbury_eggs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"211\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 3 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"red eggs\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-gq8MnSM05T4\/TcVIJ1cDOvI\/AAAAAAAAGe4\/DXURnMzSVAY\/s1600\/redegg_game.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"207\"><\/p>\n<p>The kind of Christianity I usually engage with on this blog is Catholicism, but I have a number of Orthodox friends who introduce me to different traditions and practices (of which my favorite is <a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxwiki.org\/Forgiveness_Sunday\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Forgiveness Sunday<\/a>). \u00a0Given my pugilistic tendencies, I\u2019m going to have to stop by one of their celebrations to play <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Egg_tapping\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">tsougrisma<\/a> \u2014 a game where you tap eggs together and try to smash your opponent\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 4 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"tie-dyed eggs\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-W3Sa8FH_ADU\/T3XMg2IfpaI\/AAAAAAAAQLE\/QIMX0MV8YWk\/s1600\/ties+easter+eggs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\"><\/p>\n<p>Eggs used for GAME are supposed to be red, but if you\u2019re branching out, I found these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mommyknows.com\/silk-tie-dye-easter-eggs-tutorial\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">instructions for transferring the patterns of silk ties to eggs<\/a> via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/coloring-easter-eggs-using-old-silk.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">TYWKIWDBI<\/a>. \u00a0They look awesome, and you can usually find ties at a thrift store.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 5 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And speaking of making, I was blown away by <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/2012\/03\/27\/john-muirs-maker-days\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Make Magazine\u2019s excerpt<\/a> from the memoirs of young John Muir (available in full from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/18359\/18359-h\/18359-h.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>). \u00a0I was scrolling too fast through my RSS reader, and the inventions were so cool I assumed I was reading really delightful fiction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The winter was very cold, and I had to go to the schoolhouse and start the fire about eight o\u2019clock to warm it before the arrival of the scholars. This was a rather trying job, and one that my clock might easily be made to do. Therefore, after supper one evening I told the head of the family with whom I was boarding that if he would give me a candle I would go back to the schoolhouse and make arrangements for lighting the fire at eight o\u2019clock, without my having to be present until time to open the school at nine. He said, \u201cOh! young man, you have some curious things in the school-room, but I don\u2019t think you can do that.\u201d I said, \u201cOh, yes! It\u2019s easy,\u201d and in hardly more than an hour the simple job was completed. I had only to place a teaspoonful of powdered chlorate of potash and sugar on the stove-hearth near a few shavings and kindling, and at the required time make the clock, through a simple arrangement, touch the inflammable mixture with a drop of sulphuric acid. Every evening after school was dismissed, I shoveled out what was left of the fire into the snow, put in a little kindling, filled up the big box stove with heavy oak wood, placed the lighting arrangement on the hearth, and set the clock to drop the acid at the hour of eight; all this requiring only a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The first morning after I had made this simple arrangement I invited the doubting farmer to watch the old squat schoolhouse from a window that overlooked it, to see if a good smoke did not rise from the stovepipe. Sure enough, on the minute, he saw a tall column curling gracefully up through the frosty air, but instead of congratulating me on my success he solemnly shook his head and said in a hollow, lugubrious voice, \u201cYoung man, you will be setting fire to the schoolhouse.\u201d All winter long that faithful clock fire never failed, and by the time I got to the schoolhouse the stove was usually red-hot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt6\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 6 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And since I really ran out of Easter links i, so just enjoy this very creative silent, stop-motion film (<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5898871\/a-lovely-short-movie-about-life-at-a-magic-lightbulb-factory\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">found via io9<\/a>):<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Luminaris\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/24051768?dnt=1&app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt7\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 7 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/04\/qa-with-libby-anne-of-love-joy-feminism.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">I interviewed Libby Anne<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Love Joy\u00a0Feminism<\/a> (the newest addition to the Atheism team on Patheos) as a getting-to-know-you and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2012\/04\/qa-with-leah-of-unequally-yoked.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">she posted her own interview of me<\/a>. \u00a0But if you want a <em>really<\/em> fast introduction, maybe this graphic of me will do the trick (it was part of a friend\u2019s illustration of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dungeons and Dragons alignment system<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/84\/2012\/04\/lawful-good.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2573\" title=\"lawful good\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/84\/2012\/04\/lawful-good.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"206\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For more Quick Takes, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversiondiary.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Conversion Diary!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014 1 \u2014 Easter is coming, and I\u2019ve had a link stored up for a long time that I\u2019ve been practically bursting to share with you all. io9 has a nice explanation of the physics of this trick. \u00a0Once you fill a hollow egg with hydrogen gas and wave a match over the top: It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-7-quick-takes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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