Author's posts
Aug 26
Quotable: Adam Clarke on Nehemiah 13:22
“Shame on those who, with this evidence before them, brand this good man with the epithet of workmonger! a man who, in inward holiness, outward usefulness, and genuine love to God and man, was worth ten score of such self-called believers.”
Aug 20
Quotable: Peter Drucker
“Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.” ~ via http://techpinions.com/microsoft-is-the-very-antithesis-of-strategy/32303
Aug 17
Review: Would It Kill You To Smile?
I didn’t even make it through the first two chapters. The characters and their relationships to the narrator are hard to keep track of, and the book might just have the most unlikeable protagonist since Drumline. I paid a quarter for the book, and sadly, I overpaid.
May 15
Quotable: James Baldwin
“The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.” from “The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy” in Esquire (May 1961); republished in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961) Via wikiquote
May 09
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Commerce
I have written before about how I am generally opposed to the idea of buying locally for the sake of keeping money in a particular town, state, or country. I think it goes against the idea of a free market, where one purchases goods or services based on the best price, selection, customer service, etc., …
May 07
ultima Thule
“The term ultima Thule in medieval geographies denotes any distant place located beyond the ‘borders of the known world’.” Link to the Wikipedia article.
May 05
Do you want to watch the Superb Owl?
In case you really didn’t know, Microsoft Word is programmed by nerds and not jocks: And yes, I would like to watch a superb owl.
