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02:02 PM
And I’m not talking spirituality here, I’m talking blogging… Go with me here… Ok, so this is when I join the ranks of those who are abandoning MovableType for another weblogging system. But, I’m different… Really. I mean, I love...
Yesterday evening, I finally finished Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (You can visit Neal’s personal site here). Now, I admit that I am a tragically slow reader (and for a person who loves to read — and write, of course —...
08:16 AM
Link via Tony at KCBloggers. Article at KansasCity.com: It sure sounded suspicious. On Thursday, a man visited the Pleasant Valley fire department and asked to take a picture of a fire truck. The man said he was a firefighter in...
01:05 PM
My good friends, Rob & Erica, are moving to Tasmania in July. A few weeks ago, I helped them put a Blog together so that they can document their adventures half way around the world. I don’t know why...
Suw just reminded me that today is Summer Soltice. Wha…?! This year is going by too quickly. Maybe the long day today will make up for it…...
Here’s something fun for us all to take part in… Devised by The Thinkling (here). My link via John Adams (here): 1. Grab the closest book. 2. Turn to page 64. 3. Find third complete sentence. 4. Print sentence in...
Jason Clark and I had a bit of fun on Friday....
08:44 AM
Forgive me for my anger For I feel a bit neglect My morning transportation Did leave me like a speck While rain poured down Mine hand ‘twas raised high Yet still not a notice As she performed her fly by...
07:56 AM
You are a Sage, characterized by a thinking or head spirituality. You value responsibility, logic, and order. Read the full description here. Take the Spiritual Types Test and see how you come out. Link via Jen Lemen....
11:59 AM
Since we all have a tendency to want to do this around here… You have likely heard the phrase, “Never discuss politics or religion.” In fact, if we were to categorize topics according to conversational appropriateness, religion and politics would...
08:44 AM
Yeah, I know that blogday gifts haven’t quite been institutionalized, but thanks to my friend Wheat, I now have a Gmail account. While he didn’t even know it was my blogday today, I feel like his gift to me was...
Four years ago today I began my online journal. It wasn’t going to be a “Blog,” per se, because the whole Weblog phenomenon was really only in its infancy back then. No, my online journal was only to be...
01:41 PM
Let the cooking (and eating) commence! Back on June 7th, a bunch of us were in the mood for food. Spurred on by this, my friend Brooke was thinking about starting an online cookbook of sorts (a very cool idea,...
02:31 PM
“…But just recently I’ve been sensing a bit of a shift. Nothing you could call a sea-change, but certainly the emergence of a Christian witness that does not share the political agenda of American conservatism. Real Live Preacher is perhaps...
No, not really… I mean, I’m going on a retreat, silly! Today, a few of us guys are heading down to Lake of the Ozarks for the weekend. The annual “men’s retreat” began last year, but I guess the second...
Last night, while at the grocery store, I remembered that I needed new razor blade refills — I had pushed my current razor to its last nanometer of sharpness, and I was beginning to feel the effects. To my dismay,...
12:46 PM
1. America is not God, and Americans are not God’s chosen people. Prosperity is not proof of righteousness. If you would claim to be a Christian, then you are a Christian before you are an American. Period. This and 19...
As part of an international effort to facilitate the availability of open-source licences, the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) is translating the popular Creative Commons licence (CCL) for use under Canadian law. Link via MovableBLOG: Asides....
Last night about thirty of us from church wer supposed to go to see the Royals play the Expos (and presumably, to beat them as they did at the game the night previous). It was rained out, though, so those...
11:48 AM
Via…Google Blog, of course! Check out every Google Doodle ever created. They’re all by a guy named, Dennis Hwang Google’s International Webmaster). You can e-mail Dennis with your own Google Doodle ideas at doodle@google.com… Wouldn’t it be cool to see...
I didn’t know that Bene’s twin and I had the same birthday! Arg. One day late! Don’t forget to wish Cliff a happy birthday too. (That darned Birthday Buzzard!)...
02:38 PM
I know, I know… My Blogroll is clearly out-of-date. But, I can’t help it. Since adopting an aggregator that I like, I just don’t use the darned thing anymore. In fact, the only reason that I ever visit a Weblog...
Except for my Bus Proverbs, I’m not usually big on “Quotes of the Day.” This one stopped me dead in my tracks, though… Noam Chomsky:“The “history” assumed in this argument is so radically and uncontroversially false that it is hard...
MovableType Blog Quiz via Ian. 1. Dan Black BeltYou are a novice. An experienced one. The road that lies ahead is no less long and winding than what it was, but your sense of direction is better than it was...
Last night, a few of us (my wife and my inlaws) went out for my birthday dinner. My birthday isn’t until Wednesday, but this seemed like as good a night as any. We went to Café Verona (that link is...
10:25 AM
From Livingroom: One of the themes that we are going to explore in the next month or so is that of ‘The Spirituality of Food’. It emerged as an idea out of our shared love for food (some of our...
“…and then they come out with this medicine that says, ‘May cause sexual side-effects’… Sexual side-effects?! No, there ain’t no one who’s gonna mess with my sex. I mean, why they gonna tell you it gonna mess with a man’s...
01:49 PM
I got an e-mail from a friend today that had “pomo” in the subject field. Uou see, being that a few of us talk about postmodernity a little bit, we may tend to get e-mails like this once in a...
Julianna said that my Avatar wasn’t quite right. But, how close can you get with those tools anyway? (I’d love to see others’ attempts, so please let me know.) So, after hours (not really) of putting various “pieces of the...
09:10 AM
This is me, cyber-style… Make your own with the Portrait Illustrator Maker. Link via Ian who got it from Mark who got it from Eye of the Goof....
11:07 AM
One self-portrait every day of the year. Every day…bad hair. (click image) Link via John Walkenbach....
08:07 AM
This past weekend, Julianna and I went camping at Leavenworth State Fishing Lake. As always, it was beautiful. As usual, there is a story. (Note: click images to see bigger versions.) Upon arriving at the lake, we made our trip...