Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax
From the Land of the Lost Blunderbuss
Month: December 2003
Two Sites about Arguments
Posted on December 27, 2003 in Pointers The InterNet
A couple of sites that might be of interest:
Mudslides in the Burned Over District
Posted on December 26, 2003 in California Watch Old Fire
I often passed St. Sophia’s when I sneaked up the canyon with my parents’ car, a cream colored Ford Fairlane.
Christmas Past
Posted on December 25, 2003 in Childhood College
When I was young, Christmas was a day on which we spent some time outside on the back lawn.
More Latin for Chat
Posted on December 25, 2003 in IRC/Chat Reading
I got the urge to look up more Latin for chat.
Christmas Day Terror Alert:
Santiago Canyon
Posted on December 25, 2003 in Poems
The only explosions we saw
were the sycamores —
Xmas Card 2004
Posted on December 25, 2003 in Festivals
Click on the image to view the card a page at a time.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy New Years, Happy Kwanzaa, Sanguine Saturnalia, Salubrious Solstice, and a Fabulous Frativarigen to all! All hail the feasts of Light!
My Christmas Reading
Posted on December 24, 2003 in Reading
I’ve haven’t read any good junk in a long time, so last week I picked up Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory MacGuire.
Orange Alert at LAX
Posted on December 23, 2003 in Anxiety California Watch Paranoids
I’m getting tired of these high adventure scenarios that are becoming more and more what bureaucrats feel must be an essential of our daily life.
Midwinter’s Day: Orange Alert
Posted on December 23, 2003 in Poems
Don’t fear Fear, says the terrorist.
Serial Thoughts on Working
Posted on December 23, 2003 in Class
Those who work with their hands are busy fearing with their minds.
Chat Challenges
Posted on December 23, 2003 in IRC/Chat Irony & Sarcasm Social Justice
There are a couple of questions that I like to spring on folks in chat rooms when their eyes grow blurry and they say things like “Oh, the slaves were so well treated. So much better than the working people”. Or “We need a free market, absolutely devoid of governmental inference.
Ding Dong, Ho Hum for Us
Posted on December 22, 2003 in California Watch Disasters
I guess I must have been napping when today’s tremblor brought down a cheap belltower in Paso Robles and raised the altitude of the surrounding hills by a foot.
