Rich and Strange Aeons

I went to my first Passover seder last night. A vegetarian one, with a fairly liberal haggadah and not a single yarmulke, but still. Heck, my first Jewish holy day of any sort, apart from rather lame Chanukah observance as a kid at my mother's urgings. That I grew up only really knowing of Chanukah, and not Yom Kippur or Rosh Hashanah or Passover or Purim, says something. (I probably heard of them, certainly passover, but didn't know anything.)

Anyway, it was fun.

Coincidentally, today I found http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,827144,00.html on the real world Samaritans (they live!) and how early Jews probably altered their Torah in dispute. Pretty interesting.

Totally unrelatedly, will sub-Saharan Africa undergo the demographic transition? Or rather, will it do so in time? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/world/africa/in-nigeria-a-preview-of-an-overcrowded-planet.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

I missed all the March filking, but went to MASSFILC today, despite my slow cold recovery. Biked over even, in the nicer weather. Glad I did, it was fun, singing and arguing over Facebook and asking about obscure songs (no one knew) and then finally finding them and most of the Snow Magic album on Youtube, which I spent the evening downloading. FilkOntario is next weekend, and I'm contemplating dashing for it. I've been to SF cons, gaming cons, and anime cons, but never a dedicate filk con. Give that I spend half my time at SF cons in the filk room, I'd probably enjoy one. Next one is in June/July and there's not that many; I doubt the German one would do much good... then again, its website *defaults* to English.
http://www.interfilk.org/interfilk/cons.htm