SU and I watched that movie last night, it's been a long time since I've seen it. What an awesome flick, the way movies should be made. The lighting, the camera angles, the surprises, the character twists - excellent. Reminds me much of today's society. People form opinions based … [Read more...] about 12 Angry Men
Nostalgia
I've been blogging since at least 2003, much longer if you consider the early days of computing. I've stopped and started many times, usually deleting everything. I found about 800 old posts from 2004 - 2007 that I imported for random memories. Those posts are under this category.
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That is the number of spam emails I received over the weekend. Incredible. Someday I'll browse through them and see what it is I'm missing. It was, on the whole, a good Sunday. Class was full again, even the 3 visitors from the week before came back. Probably hoping for a repeat … [Read more...] about 651
Why ask why?
While preparing for today's discussion, I found this passage in Charles Stanley's Advancing Through Adversity: When we ask why in the face of adversity, however, our question is nearly always couched in highly personal terms: “Why did this happen to me?†The focus is less on … [Read more...] about Why ask why?
Pretty much an up and down
day today. Worked on my lesson plan for tomorrow, cleaned and backwashed the pool, spent an hour looking for the charger for my A100 (never found it) and then went up to an anti-I.C.E. raid protest. Took forever to get there because TX-DOT is using all of their money for lobbying … [Read more...] about Pretty much an up and down
My Amazon order arrived
the other day and included a couple new Brennan Manning books. Read through the little parable, The Boy Who Cried Abba already, another classic Manning work. This guy is able to cut through the clutter and talk about God. This passage seemed appropriate for my class this Sunday, … [Read more...] about My Amazon order arrived