I recently, and somewhat reluctantly, removed a left-wing political humor blog from my personal “daily visit” blog list because I got tired of the constant, cheap-shot “John McCain is old” jokes. Seems to me that if I want the political discourse elevated to issues instead of personalities, I have to walk my talk.
By the [...]
Thank you for the opportunity to taste test top level blogging and for a good setup topic, first the angst of being a renaissance wannabe in the age of math based engineering and data explosion.
The world and counseling needs some words for the mental states related to failures to Grok, Grok being a made up [...]
I’ve always been fascinated by the seven deadly sins — so much more interesting than the seven virtues. I once tried to match each sin to one of Snow White’s Seven Dwarfs (close, but no cigar). A character in Robertson Davies’ The Cunning Man made a party game of rating one’s friends on [...]
Live webcam of a mama lion and four cubs, all the way from Norway. Squeeeee!
Commentator on today’s “Morning Edition,” describing the character of Carrie Bradshaw: “Sure, she’s narcissistic, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.”
Chocolate
David Beckham
Reality TV
Horror
Madonna
Steampunk
Pugs
Brother Terry confesses to a weakness that most of us share:
In my own ministry I have been too critical of others. I repent of that because I (hopefully) have learned that God uses all kinds of people, and just because someone does things differently than me, doesn’t mean they’re wrong.
Man, if only I can remember [...]
If you Google “my worst fear is,” these are some of what results:
Failure
That we will make the same mistake we did before
Rejection
Sadness
Miscarriage
Tornadoes
That there is no existence after death
To be surrounded by cockroaches
Drowning
Something happening to my kids
Bugs, especially spiders
Forgetting
Dolls
Getting into a car wreck
Someone close to me dying suddenly
Heights
Judgment day
Knives
Not accomplishing my goals
Throwing up
Looking down and seeing [...]
A record-breaking experiment with 1500 bottles of Diet Coke and some unspecified number of Mentos:
What’s even cooler is that the ponchos make them look like monks, or maybe hobbits.
Via Slashfood.
