So the new Pope was chosen yesterday. Pretty cool stuff considering it's been so long since the last time it happened. I wasn't even born. I'm pretty sure though that I'll still be around for a second go at this. Did you see how old this guy is? He's 78. That's almost as old as Pope John Paul was when he died. I guess he's probably in better health though, so maybe he'll be around for a while. According to various news reports and blogs I've read, he's supposed to be extremely conservative, so we'll see if he cleans things up any.
Okay, so there actually is a point to this post. In reading up about the new pope, I found something pretty funny/interesting. This guy (Rogers Cadenhead) in Florida bought up six domain names two weeks ago that were potential pope names. So the day the new name "Benedict XVI" was announced, the world apparently tried to hit
www.benedictxvi.com, only to be redirected to
www.cadenhead.org! Pretty funny. His blog's been getting something like 150 hits per minute ever since. And if you check out his
site, the comments before the pope announcement are like 4 or 5, and now it's up to 140. He's also been receiving a fair amount of ad revenue ever since. He hasn't decided yet what he's going to do with the domain, but he has promised not to do anything dirty or unethical, although some people think he hit that point when he bought it in the first place.
Too weird. The article in
Wired where I originally found this is
here.One other interesting note. I learned this by reading Cadenhead's post about the pope.
"The last choice [referring to domain name] would lend itself to rapturous excitement among end-times believers -- there's a long belief that the last pope will call himself Peter II."
Never heard that before.
Posted by Brandy at 8:23 AM
My head hurts. Not just a headache, but a HEADACHE. And it's yucky outside. But I suppose we need the rain. We always need the rain. It's absolutely pouring outside. The only time I love for it to be storming is when I'm at home. There's nothing quite like a good thunderstorm. It hit me today. Come Thursday, there are exactly three weeks until the end of school. For like, ever. Weird. I've got to get to work on some lingering projects.
Today has got to be the longest day on record. Well, maybe not. It just feels like it. But speaking of the longest day on record, does anyone actually know the story of
Joshua's Long Day? Okay kids, take out your Bibles and turn with me to
Joshua 10. So the Amorite kings decided to attack Joshua and the Israelites. God told Joshua,
"Do not fear them, for I have given them into your hands. Not a man of them shall stand before you (vs. 8)."
Joshua took the people and began a march toward the enemy, who when they saw Joshua's army, fled in terror. As they fled, however, God struck them with stones from the sky and killed them. Joshua and his army needed more time to finish the rest of them off, but the sun was setting. So Joshua prayed to God that he would extend the day. Guess what--He did. That's right people.
"The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day. There has been no day like it before or since, when the Lord obeyed the voice of a man, for the Lord fought for Israel (vs. 13-14)."
How cool is that?? Now read this excerpt from an article by
Russel Grigg:
"It should also be noted that the Amorites were sun and moon worshippers. For these ‘deities’ to have been forced to obey the God of Israel must have been a devasting experience for the Amorites, and this might well have been the reason why God performed this particular miracle at that time..."
God is awesome people. He can tell the sun and moon when and where to go, and how to do it. Shouldn't we trust that He can and will take care of us?
Posted by Brandy at 3:02 PM
The State of Things
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good." -- Thomas Sowell
Posted by Brandy at 7:40 AM
The Weekend Has Arrived!!
I'm sooo ready for some chinese and a movie. This has been the longest, rainy, dreary day ever. On the plus side, I got the links in my Flash project working. FireFox had a bug, but it has since been taken care of :) Love me some FireFox. It's the greatest browser of all time. Looks like a long Internet-free weekend. I'm stuck in the Stone Age and still don't have broadband, so I surf at the mercy of my Netzero dial-up. It will, however, force me to work on the catering website for class. It's coming along, slowly but surely. It looks pretty nice too, and it's really functional. PHP is my new best friend.
Oh, and since I seem to be summing up my week (yes, it's really is
that boring), I might as well mention my mock interview yesterday. It was designed to give us the "experience" of a real interview. I wasn't nervous about it really, I was just dreading it because I didn't know what I was going to say. It went very well though. Nancy (the interviewer) had really nice things to say about me and the way I presented myself. The complete shock was that my hands, body, and voice didn't convulse during the thing once (which is pretty standard behavior for me during something like that). I'm just relieved this week is finally over.
Posted by Brandy at 4:12 PM
