I'm currently here for the night, en route to Seabrook Island, SC. The family is on vacation, and will be there all week. Today was the last day of school. I'm now done for the year. ...
The $100 Laptop project demoed some final-ish models this week. I've mentioned this project, and it's potential, before. Sell cheap laptops to poor schoolkids in developing countries, kill the digital divide. Very interesting, very cool....
For the last year and half Noel and I informally advised, hung out with, fed and occasionally housed "The Kids." "The Kids" primarily referred to Paigey and Yosh, our siblings, but it also included a slew of their close...
This about sums it up concerning 6 years of Republican Rule. Click on the highlighted words to watch: youtube videos. Excellent video its serious not snarky. ...
This book will describe how American masculinity has pathetically become more and more emasculated and feminized over time. It's a sad read. Get it at Amazon....
“I shouldn’t normally show what I’d written to anyone [before publishing]: what would be the point? You remember Tennyson reading an unfinished poem to Jowett; when he had finished, Jowett said, ‘I shouldn’t publish that if I were you, Tennyson.’...
Now we all know I'm not a smart man... but a I do know what love is Jenny. So the most recent feeling of my dumbness came after the season finale of Lost. I haven't missed an episode in a...
My sister, the next oldest of us siblings, the middler, had to have her beloved Dexter, their eleven year old Basset hound, put down yesterday. Steph's husband is Brian, and she has an oldest daughter whose about six who...
Had to come up with some alliteration in my title for Scott and Mandy. Yesterday was supposed to be our "down" day. No competition for Ethan's team. I spent the day playing taxi driver in the van, and I...
This Man Will Eat Your Dog Last night we had a little shindigery get together things for Andy Ross at Andy Montgomery's house. This coincided with a viewing of the Chattanooga Michigan Expats of Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals....
Orthodox church is consecrated in Rome: The first Orthodox church to be built in Rome since 1054 was consecrated yesterday in another sign of improved relations between the Vatican and the Patriarchate of Moscow. The onion-shaped dome of the Church of Saint...
We're back from Vienna (we made it, anyway -- our luggage got stuck in Amsterdam). Yesterday we were awake for 26 hours straight and enjoyed two buses, three planes and a car ride. Whew. I'll get some photos up soon....
The 104th Tennessee General Assembly, 2006 edition, has not proceeded without some reaction to the nationwide eminent domain controversy. Just what that reaction is, or how much it will accomplish in the end, is being negotiated in these final days...
I've never paid a whole lot of attention to the warnings about false prophets in the Bible. I don't know why. It's not that I thought they were outdated or false, but prophets and false prophets just seemed almost irrelevent...
Eighth Day Books, in Wichita, Kansas, my all-time, number-one favorite bookstore on the planet has a new blog: EDB BookBlog. There are also message boards. Slather me in butter and call me done. I'm full of joy. ...
I found out yesterday that my 20th High School Reunion will be September 30, 2006. It will either be semi-formal or casual; but unsure yet. I'm so exited about this reunion and can't wait to go. That...
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