A Happy Easter from GorT and family as we travel the west.  We enjoyed a wonderful Easter Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi (in Santa Fe, NM) celebrated by the Archbishop with an excellent choir that did two pieces from Mozart’s Requiem and a beautiful version of Resucitó complete with horns. The cathedral is under repair but the interior is gorgeous – a must see for anyone passing through Santa Fe.

I’ll pass on some ruminations from the travels when we return home and I have more time. Needless to say, it’ll include some pieces on technology, a rant about “climate change” (courtesy of a museum in Arizona), and a bit about few other recent news items (including the hub-bub about the “cyber intrusions” by foreign countries into our infrastructure. In the meantime, enjoy the quality postings of the Czar, Volgi and ‘Puter and this following passage that Monsignor Jerome of the Cathedral put in the bulletin today:

Welcome to Mass on Eater Sunday. We invite you to come back. In order to make it easier for you to do so, we are starting:

“No Excuse Sunday”

– Cots will be placed in the aisles for those who say, “Sunday is my only day to sleep in.”
– We will have steel helmets for those who say, “The roof would cave in if I ever came to church.”
– Blankets will be furnished for those who think the church is too cold, and fans for those who say it is too hot.
– We will have hearing aids for those who say, “The priest speaks too softly,” and cotton for those who say, “He preaches too loudly.”
– Score cards will be available for those who wish to list the hypocrites present.
– Some relatives will be in attendance for those who like to go visiting on Sundays.
– There will be TV dinners available for those who can’t go to church and also cook dinner.
– One section (of the church) will be devoted to trees and grass for those who like to see God in nature.
– Finally, the sanctuary will be decorated with both Christmas poinsettias and Easter lilies for those who have never seen the church without them.

GorT

GorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including subsidizing this website. Some of the products he has introduced from the future include oven mitts, the Guinness widget, Oxy-Clean, and Dr. Pepper. Due to his immense cybernetic brain, GorT is able to produce a post in 0.023 seconds and research it in even less time. Only ’Puter spends less time on research. GorT speaks entirely in zeros and ones, but occasionally throws in a ڭ to annoy the Volgi. He is a massive proponent of science, technology, and energy development, and enjoys nothing more than taking the Czar’s more interesting scientific theories, going into the past, publishing them as his own, and then returning to take credit for them. He is the only Gormogon who is capable of doing math. Possessed of incredible strength, he understands the awesome responsibility that follows and only uses it to hurt people.