I always wanted my name painted on the office door.
“Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness, nourishment of mind by His truth, purifying of imagination by His beauty, opening of the heart to His love, and submission of will to His purpose. And all this gathered up in adoration is the greatest of human expressions of which [...]
No, not MLK… c’mon, have some respect. Here’s the audio of the famous “I Have a Dream” speech, given on August 28, 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Now that I’ve started to become more familiar with Lincoln, the speech strikes me as very like Lincoln’s work. Not too long. Elegant language. Rich analogy. [...]
Helen and I laughed and laughed over You Bet Your Life announcer George Fenneman’s expression delivering the above line to Groucho Marx in this video. This one is good, too. “Nola Contendere… I knew her well…” Dozens of free You Bet Your Life radio programs are available here. It’s really pretty fun stuff. The kids love it, [...]
More Anna Chatter. We were driving to church last Sunday and she was discussing the many inventions she’s working on. One was a domestic robot, I think. She described the many ambitious things it would do, and then asked if I thought she could make it. I told her maybe, but she’d have to learn [...]
I worked with Digital Cyclone from 2000 to 2002 as Internet Programmer. We built My-Cast.com, a popular website providing free, very localized weather forecasts. The business model relied heavily on web advertising revenues. As the dot-com bust drew near, we had a number of layoffs until, finally, they had to pare the company down from [...]
We had strep sweep through the family a couple of weeks ago. I didn’t get it. So far, I’m crediting gargling. 1/2 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. baking soda, about a half cup warm water. A few times a day. I’m going out on a limb, since it looks like another round of something is going to [...]
I’ve always liked using the comma before the “and” in a list in a sentence. Turns out my rebellion against the AP Stylebook isn’t entirely unwarranted. According to this fellow, anyway.
Now that’s original, isn’t it? Well, December brought an end to a whirlwind of projects at work. All were successfully finished up, and then came some welcome time off. Convalescence. Ahhh, wonderful. We had a really nice Christmas enjoying family, friends and church. The rest brought recovery from illness; everyone but Kenny and I had come down [...]