Thursday, May 30, 2002

Evidently, the hole in the Ozone should close by 2040.

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How about some Yasser Arafat cheese-puff chips?

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Wednesday, May 29, 2002

Michael Horton on traditional and contemporary worship - and worship in general.
Only available until 5/30/02 about 5:00.

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One of the ladies from church gave me some rhubarb last night. Not knowing what to do with it, I came to the web thinking I'd find a site that had a recipe and some directions. Little did I know that www.rhubarbinfo.com existed.

The web really does have everything.

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Tuesday, May 28, 2002

I neglected to mention that we saw Episode II on Saturday. I enjoyed the movie - even the plot set-ups in the beginning. I found all the politics fascinating. The love-story stuff could have been much better and more realistic (as many have commented), but all-in-all I found it an enjoyable escape from reality.

And the requisite: Yoda is awesome.

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A site to help with Church web site design. Seeing as Jason and I are going to be working on ours, this may be a good reference. There's even a post about hosts.

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How great would this "job" be? This family travels together and finds interesting places to visit, then writes and publishes books about the states and places they've visited. This would be a great resource especially for homeschoolers. They're on the web at Kids Love Publications and have written books on: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the Virginias.

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Friday, May 24, 2002

The Ohio State Football season kicks off 3 months (92 days) from today. I can't wait!

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Wednesday, May 22, 2002

Looks as though the Sensus Plenior users are down today ...

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Digital-Neighbors allows you to find out specific information regarding neighborhoods you may be interested in. Looks like a fun place to play!

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Tuesday, May 21, 2002

UniSci is a daily updated science news site.

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A glass of white or a glass of red?

Despite the recent content, I really don't drink that much ...

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(sarcasm)China: a most favored nation, in deed.(/sarcasm)

Link via Kevin.

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PETA is at it again: the NCAA will now use synthetic leather for their basketballs. A PETA representative asked if it would be more expensive responded:

Shannon said it was hard to put a price on a cow's life.

No, it isn't! The market sets the price based on supply and demand; a cow is not a human, yet we allow the market to pay human salaries. Besides, doesn't making synthetic products hurt the environment - you know factories and all? And what about when they're no longer good enough to use, doesn't that add to our landfills? Silliness.

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Senator Dodd has compared the President of the United States with Fidel Castro. Rather irresponsible IMO.

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International Friendships looks like an interesting outreach to foreign students at Ohio State.

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Tom Waits will be on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Since I know many of you are fans, I thought I'd warn you ahead of time. Once the interview is posted, I'll add the link to it here.

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Monday, May 20, 2002

I have finished Jane Eyre. What a delightful book focused around the Lord's plans for His children! I was fascinated with the comparisons of Jane's cousins from two families who were obviously set opposed to one another (John and St. John even!) in their qualities. I knew how the book was going to turn out and was going to be disappointed in the resolution, until the last chapter's delight in the Lord's mercy in His judgement.

Why isn't Christian literature written like this anymore?

On to Wuthering Heights.

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The Wine Aroma Wheel to help describe wine in precise terminology. This article explains how to use it. However, if the authors' tummy is really turned by imprecise terminology, perhaps he ought to join the real world.

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Brother Jed on NPR.

Evidently, there is a method behind his outrageous-ness.

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Saw Spider-Man on Saturday. I enjoyed it, but I kinda expected more because of all the hype. Willem Dafoe was great as the green goblin and some of the best acting was in his scenes.

We rented Bandits which I fell asleep to Saturday night. I'm tired of movies that make you root for the bad guys.

We also rented Serendipity and watched it last night. It wasn't very good at all. I generally like John Cusak movies, but the whole new-agey fate theme and ruining two others' lives for a possibility just annoyed me the whole movie.

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Friday, May 17, 2002

Evidently the rotating Bible Verse is no longer available as Bible.net and Salvation.com are both available - $25,000 for former and $5,000 for the latter.

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I've been reading a lot recently, so I didn't feel so bad last night when I let myself watch the Friends and er season finales.

"OK" is not an acceptable response to a proposal of marriage. Especially when you're in love with someone else. And now we know why Joey had feelings for Rachel this season. Argh.

And, Carter took off his mask when working on the smallpox kid, doesn't that make him contagious? Should he be kissing Abbey? I haven't watched much of er the last two seasons, and knew I couldn't watch when they killed Mark, but I wanted to watch last night's and I'm glad I did.

Except that I hate cliffhangers. Argh.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2002

Hey, Doug, here's another Methodist blogger: Connexion.

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Tuesday, May 14, 2002

The Westminster Shorter Catechism

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Two blogs I haven't had time to add:

He Lives
Thinking Out Loud

There are many others. I really need to update my links.

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Last week was a busy week.

I finished Northanger Abbey and loved it. It was delightfully light and satirical. It pitted elegant, genuine friendship against self-serving friendship. It was delightful in encouraging reading as a pastime. The Amazon review says that it "skewered" the popular novels of its time, but I felt rather differently: the kind, generous, and genuine were all readers while the raucous delighted in intrigue and fast driving action. All in all I really enjoyed the story and the characters.

We went to a wedding in Cleveland on Saturday. The wedding was at 2:00 and the reception 6:30 which allowed us time to check into our hotel and take a nap. I also finished Mansfield Park during the 2 hours we had free. Again, a lovely development of characters. It pitted social classes against each other and made some commentary upon the actions of people of entitlement vs. people who had responsibilities. The eldest brother in Lord Thomas' household is vain and irresponsible, while Edmund the second son is caring, sensitive, and acknowledges Lord Thomas' principles and desires. Fanny, the young cousin, is taken into Mansfield Park to help alleve the poverty of her family and is a shining example opposed to her older female cousins who are selfish and arrogant - having been pumped up by their controlling Aunt Norris. A visit to her home shows Fanny that entitlement is not the only evil that works upon people, however. Austen manages to reconcile the whole story through plot and character growth in humor and elegance.

My only major disappointment with the Austen books so far is they end too quickly! The summing up of plot and characters is all held within the last two pages of the climax of the books.

We came home Sunday in driving rain. I was glad Jason was driving, and that I was not. We spent the day with my family and called his mom for Mothers' Day. I started, slightly, the new Mary Higgins Clark book: Daddy's Little Girl. I finished it last night (no, I didn't accomplish much of anything else yesterday) It was good, On the Street Where You Live was better, but I did enjoy Daddy's Little Girl. It was different from a lot of her books as it was written in the first person which helped the reader identify with Ellie better. It was less good in the too many loose ends, it only had a small summary of "a year later," and there were some slight inconsistencies and repetitions in the story.

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Monday, May 13, 2002

A Homeschool blog with several things I want to read later.

[link via NRO Corner - whose participants need to learn to use permalinks!]

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Friday, May 10, 2002

Scott asked which book of the Adams' I was reading and since links don't work so well in his comments, I'm reading The Book of Abigail and John. It is selected letters from 1762-1784 and starts off somewhat sillily, but I believe the letters become more serious as their relationship grows. I should keep reading this. But I'm going to finish Mansfield Park and some other novels first.

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Thursday, May 09, 2002

Seems as though hats can now be chased. Or not - sorry 'bout that!

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Tuesday, May 07, 2002

Don't forget to vote today.

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Resources from CARM:

Dictionary of Theology
The Calvinist Corner

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I tried Baked Doritos today. They don't taste anything like Doritos. In fact, they're not good. I can't find anything about them on the Frito Lay or Doritos websites, so I'm assuming "Columbus, Ohio Test Market" is the culprit for me trying them.

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This Semi-Pelagian Catechism would be really funny if it weren't so true. I don't know if Zadok wrote it, but I'm going to give him credit until I find out otherwise.

12. Q: And what else hast thou got in thine heart?

A: I've got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart.

13. Q: Where??

A: Down in my heart!

14. Q: Where ? ? ?

A: Down in my heart!!

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Where's Dani?!?!

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Monday, May 06, 2002

We got our first shipment of International wines today. We've really enjoyed the California wines we've gotten monthly through the A Taste of California Wine Club and they just started a quarterly International shipment. The worst part (or best depending on your pov) is that we don't go to World Market to buy wine very often anymore although Jason enjoys their beer selection.

Sorry, Laurel.

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Wednesday, May 01, 2002

I was just given a new project at work related to tracking Safety and Discipline using our HR Database. I think I'm going to call it the SAD project.

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Downloadable audio Bible.

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Interesting. Typically I try not to blog about blogging, but I'm interested in this idea of clustering bloggers (could you call our little cluster the Reformed Wing?) and what he calls "the catacombs." (Perhaps that would be a good name for Dani's prayer site). And as Gideon Strauss points out Martin Roth's directory is very limited. It only has 6 links in common with mine (who AFAIK are almost all Christians) and I know of a great many more Christian blogs that I don't read even close to regularly.

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Mikebaby already blogged this, but I am so amazed:

A vegan couple in New York City were busted for starving their baby daughter — by denying her breast milk and formula, feeding her only nuts, fruits and vegetables, and allegedly failing to get her medical help for severe malnutrition.

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