Tomorrow I’ll be on a plane headed to Portland, Oregon, to attend General Assembly, the big annual denominational gathering. I’m going to try to do thirty second updates each day of General Assembly, along with written posts. In this first update, I talk about how I hate traveling.
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Hey, you thought CNN was on top of breaking stories. Here’s my live coverage of my participation in the 3rd annual UU bloggers picnic. (30 seconds)
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The rooftops of downtown New Bedford host a Herring Gull nesting colony. Yesterday and today I went searching for gull nests. I climbed up onto the roof of First Unitarian church, roamed the top deck of the Elm St. parking garage, stuck my head out of one of the skylights in our apartment, and poked around into a small urban park, and the video has footage from all four places.
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Yesterday while I was shooting video up on the parking garage, I wound up talking with one of the people who works at the parking garage. Last year, they had a dozen nests up there, and the Herring Gulls made something of a nuisance of themselves. This year, he’s up on the top deck every day, sweeping out nesting material before the gulls get a chance to get settled in. “Just call me an apex predator,” he said.
One final note to those of you who are birders — I’m pretty sure I saw nesting Great Black-Backed Gulls from the roof of the Elm St. Parking Garage, but they were far enough away that you’d need a scope to be sure. They were on a building just about due east from the parking garage.
As part of the Blogger BioBlitz this week, I’m looking for biodiversity in an urban garden in downtown New Bedford, Mass. I actually found more biodiversity than you might expect.
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A short video (3:54) of the swing span bridge along U.S. 6 in New Bedford in action. You’ll see boats, trucks, a moving bridge, everything a five year old could want. Woo hoo!
A couple of earlier posts about the bridge: here and here).
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Because I got delayed in the city of R’lyeh last weekend, I missed the “blogging against theocracy” blog swarm. But since it’s never too late to blog against theocracy, here’s my video on the topic. (3:51)
Thanks to ck for pointing me in the direction of Blogging against Theocracy.
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Open source Bible is back again. A little geekier than part 1, but with a weekend project I know you’ll want to try. (4:59) Part one
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Some of my favorite online videos are how-to-do-it videos, like Make TV. So I figured I’d make a how-to-do-it video for post-Christians — a video on how to do open source Bible. (4:44)
(And yeah, I’ve listened to your criticisms, so now I’m scripting the videos. Past videos were way too non-linear.)
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Religions have been basically clueless when it comes to dealing with global climate change. Which is to be expected, because ecological crisis is so completely new, no one has a clue how to deal with it. Being clueless myself, last Saturday, March 24, I walked on the last day of the Interfaith Walk for Climate Rescue. The walk culminated in an interfaith worship service in Boston’s Old South Church.
I know that a walk for “climate rescue” seems pointless;– certainly, the walk had enough trappings of 60’s “counterculture” (signs with slogans, chanting, etc.) to make it seem even more pointless. And like many interfaith worship services, the one last Saturday seemed more like a disjointed collage than a unified worship service. In spite of all that, interfaith worship services and pilgrimages on foot might be exactly the right thing to do right now.
I don’t know. You watch the video and see how you feel. (6:26)
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