April 2006
The Archives
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Thinking
Missionary?
04.28.06 | Permalink | 10 CommentsOkay. The creative angst is too strong, I have to take another break from studying. While studying eavesdropping at ABC, I learned of the work of Greg Mortenson, a mountain climber that nearly lost his life scaling K2. He vowed to build schools for the indigent children of Pakistan, and has sold [...]
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Technology
Bell
southwho?I have been using Lingo for over a year now, and after much complaining I have finally succomb to the wife’s pressures–we are switching to a more mainstream phone service. Charter is now offering a total package (phone, Internet 3mb, digital cable) for $99/month. Besides the 28 day lead time, I am excited [...]
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Children, Thinking
Soul and Body
Typical morning conversation:
3 year old daughter: “Daddy, was I in Heaven before I was born?”
Me: “Well, actually that is a great question. First we have to distinguish between the physical and the spiritual or ‘animus.’ Philosophers often debate over the creation or pre-existance of spirit. I, for one, believe that the animus and the physical [...] -
Technology
Cool tool
Nice new tool from Sanderson Golf that brings together my love of golf and love of technology. Only problem is that I always hit the ball in the fairway.
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Book, China, Thinking
One quick post before I go
04.22.06 | Permalink | 19 CommentsI have my last in-class final one week from Monday. Basically, I need to learn 40% of the material and re-learn the remaining 60%, so I should be studying right now. Instead, I am looking for everything that I can possibly do to avoid studying (i.e. clean the office, go to the post office, floss [...]
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Southern Quotes
Hungry?
“My stomach thinks my throat’s cut”
–Mary Frances Floyd (mom)Share the goodness:
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Southern Quotes
Children
“The women always know they’re theirs, but the men are never sure”
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Movie, Thinking
9-11 For Sale
I feel a little strange about paying 10 bucks to go and see a movie about the 9-11 attacks. Universal studios is presenting a “real-time” depicition of the events of the morning of 9-11 on flight 93. Strange thing, Discovery released The Flight That Fought Back some time back, and it was a very interesting [...]
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Thinking, Uncategorized
Data, data, everywhere
Indeed living in the twenty-first century is a blast. Anything and everything that we need to know is a Google search away, but admittedly the downside of all this data is nothingness. With all of this data, one may prove any point they are trying to make.
Sometime ago my brother posted a thoughtful [...]
