Tuesday, July 25, 2006

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Birthday I've been asked what I want for my birthday. I said I'd like a laser you can start a campfire with. That's be cool! W...
Monday, July 24, 2006

Creative spam

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I just cleaned out the junk mail from gmail--it doesn't have a single "dump it all" command, unfortunately, so I have to chuck...
Saturday, July 22, 2006

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Oops After weeks of almost nightly practice, last night was the first night of Patience . My wife suggested that it might be good if I bou...
Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Our Superstring Universe

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by L.E. Lewis Jr. Strings, branes, extra dimensions, and superstring-m theory. Who edited this? I can’t believe a particle physicist looked...
Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Health, Second Edition

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by Marna Owen If I may paraphrase a more famous review: This is not a book to be taken lightly. It should be thrown down and stamped on. Y...
Saturday, July 08, 2006

Puns

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Son, you are 12 years old and it is time for you to learn about the noblest form of wit: puns. With puns you are playing with sound and me...
Wednesday, July 05, 2006

More bumper stickers

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On one car: “You can no more win a war than win an earthquake” and “Let’s get together and feel all right.” I’m trying to figure out under ...
Thursday, June 29, 2006

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Aha! Light The pastor’s sermon explained a lot. When he spoke about following God’s leading he said (among other things) that he had not ...

What to do?

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Is this a time for you to be building yourselves paneled houses when my house is in ruins? Haggai Is this applicable now? Is God’s house i...
Friday, June 23, 2006

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Rolling Stone I gather analysis isn't their strong suit. The sex scandal at Duke story has a few oddities that suggest that the repo...
Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Wyalusing

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Eldest son kept having butterflies (the tabby kind about 3 cm long) land on him and probe for water/ whatever (puddling, I think it is calle...
Tuesday, June 06, 2006

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Super Absorbant The "superabsorbant" waffle-weave towels are supposed to be more absorbant and more durable than the usual tufted...
Sunday, June 04, 2006

Monrovia Mon Amour

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A visit to Liberia by Anthony Daniels Anthony Daniels may be better known by his pseudonym Theodore Dalyrymple. He is a doctor and psychia...
Thursday, June 01, 2006

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20 months old Neighbor Toby is twenty months old. He is cheerful and adventurous, and he speaks entirely in consonants, like the groundhog ...
Monday, May 29, 2006

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No more drudgery! I’ve never been a fan of fufu myself, but if hours of drudgery can be done away with, this might be a good idea. Of cou...

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Is That a Hint? I’ve been reading Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life by Donald Whitney. This afternoon I read the chapter on fa...

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Hand-Me-Ups? At lunch today Youngest Son announced that he was “giving his Lord of the Rings action figures as hand-me-downs” to Youngest D...
Saturday, May 20, 2006

Why no book reviews?

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I have been writing, just not here. Our church needs some material for introductory classes, so I wrote it. What with the many other thin...
Wednesday, May 17, 2006

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DaVinci Code I've been hearing two reactions in church to the upcoming movie: opportunity and boycott. Boycott is the wrong word for m...
Sunday, May 14, 2006

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Time and Mother The past is always with us. I feel this most with my wife: a moment with her recalls other moments. We shaped each other...