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Definition quickies. If you can think of something you'd like me to define that begins with an unused letter, let me know!
A - android: the operating system on the phone i bought in June
B
C - Christine: my spouse of 18 years
D - dooced: [via Urban Dictionary] to lose one’s job because of one’s website.
E
F - Friends: how Quakers refer to themselves, short for the Religious Society of Friends
G - grey cat blogs: one blog on more information science related stuff, one on more creative stuff, at a domain name i've owned since 1996
H
I
J - J: first initial of my first given name
K
L
M Meeting: how Quakers/Friends refer to the local community of practice; Minnow: how i refer to the company i worked for from 2001-2006, name established in the merger to avoid being dooced
N
O
P
Q - Quaker: i belong to a Yearly Meeting (qv) which is Unprogrammed (qv) and certainly supports Universalist (qv) members
R
S
T
U - Unprogrammed meetings: also called silent meetings. There are no clergy to shape the experience in advance, although there are strong practices and expectations. Universalist: a way that folks in traditional Christian culture express that there are many valid routes to the experience of the Divine (or knowing God, or of being saved, or participating in the Beloved community....)
V
W - whale: how i refer to the company i work for now, which swallowed the minnow in 2006. Name established in the merger to avoid being dooced.
X
Y - Yearly Meeting: the largest hierarchical witnessing body in the society of Friends. Although there are groups that are made up of Yearly Meetings, these larger groups don't have the formal ties of responsibility in Yearly-Quarterly-Monthly meetings -- now that FUM has dropped their claim at the insistance of Maryland's Yearly Meeting ....
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A - android: the operating system on the phone i bought in June
B
C - Christine: my spouse of 18 years
D - dooced: [via Urban Dictionary] to lose one’s job because of one’s website.
E
F - Friends: how Quakers refer to themselves, short for the Religious Society of Friends
G - grey cat blogs: one blog on more information science related stuff, one on more creative stuff, at a domain name i've owned since 1996
H
I
J - J: first initial of my first given name
K
L
M Meeting: how Quakers/Friends refer to the local community of practice; Minnow: how i refer to the company i worked for from 2001-2006, name established in the merger to avoid being dooced
N
O
P
Q - Quaker: i belong to a Yearly Meeting (qv) which is Unprogrammed (qv) and certainly supports Universalist (qv) members
R
S
T
U - Unprogrammed meetings: also called silent meetings. There are no clergy to shape the experience in advance, although there are strong practices and expectations. Universalist: a way that folks in traditional Christian culture express that there are many valid routes to the experience of the Divine (or knowing God, or of being saved, or participating in the Beloved community....)
V
W - whale: how i refer to the company i work for now, which swallowed the minnow in 2006. Name established in the merger to avoid being dooced.
X
Y - Yearly Meeting: the largest hierarchical witnessing body in the society of Friends. Although there are groups that are made up of Yearly Meetings, these larger groups don't have the formal ties of responsibility in Yearly-Quarterly-Monthly meetings -- now that FUM has dropped their claim at the insistance of Maryland's Yearly Meeting ....
Z
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