I’ve heard of weddings which spare no expense, but this is incredible.
The Rev. Prof. Peter Gomes provides his take on the gay-marriage issue in Massachusetts. Here’s a nice quote from it:
“Judicial tyranny” is a phrase usually heard from those whose prejudices have not been sustained by a court’s decision. Happily, the fundamental rights of citizens in this Commonwealth and republic are in the long run defended against another form of tyranny even more dangerous, the tyranny of the majority.
Sammy spoke today with fond memory of a comment he had written on a blog. He sent the comment— it is so typically Sammy that I just have to post it here for posterity:
I burst forth. Not me the person, me the words you read here. What is at stake in the transcription of feelings/emotions in the form of a letter, a graph of any sort? Nothing short of translation. Not unlike a new language, beginning in the limited sense of unintelligibility between speakers of different languages, the translation repeats itself in interpretation and understanding. The problem of letter writing? What the other reads is not what you wish them to. I had a conversation with Allie yesterday. Not a vocal conversation, or even properly speaking, a text conversation, though it was textual. The trace? Nothing. Our memories. Divergent. A letter we may write each other in the future about such conversation? Different. Distant.
BTW, the CAPTCHA solution I am using is a modified version of the plugin which can by found on James Seng’s blog. I’ve kept Seng’s method of storing keys in files, but I’ve changed the actual challenge to be much more difficult by using some code from the FirstProductions Human Test project. I suspect that my version is much harder to crack with OCR software than Seng’s version.
I’ve now upgraded the CAPTCHA solution on this site. This version should be quite hard to break with current OCR software. Let me know what you think of it.