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Oct 11
poignard
n., PONE-yerd or PWN-yerd for you gamers out there. As you could probably tell from the way the pronunciation doesn’t match the spelling, the word is indeed French. The Anglicized spelling is ‘poniard,’ and in French or English it refers to a small, tapering dagger. “She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.” –Benedick, from Much …
Oct 09
Quotable: D.A. Carson
“There’s no rulebook in Haddon Robinson’s ‘Homiletics’ that says, ‘Thou shalt preach the entire flipping book or thou shalt be damned.’”
Oct 07
Free Wallpaper: Concrete Parallax for iPhone 5
If you have iOS 7 installed on your iPhone 5, I have created a parallax wallpaper just for you:
Oct 04
Always check the physical layer
One of the most valuable lessons I have learned in IT I learned from one of our network guys at the time. I had misdiagnosed an issue as a “network problem,” a term which is a catch-all used by noobs and vendors to say that they don’t know what the problem is. Chris, the network …
Oct 02
VBS 2013 Development Diary: #12: Stepping Up
Every year we do Bible school I supervise most aspects of the skit: writing, direction, set building, prop construction, casting, and rehearsal (I have a lot of input on the music and costumes, but not usually enough expertise to give useful input). I usually have some people who take care of some of these once …
Sep 28
Quotable: Otto von Bismark
“They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.”
Sep 25
I’m a big kid! $#%+!
I recently attended the freshman showcase for my daughter’s theater department at college. Most all of the incoming freshmen and transfer students performed a monologue, a song, or dance number. There were several good performances, and a few amazing ones. Sadly there were a few that appeared to be the performer’s attempt to prove that …
Sep 23
Bridges of Madison County: The Musical
The 1993 hit book The Bridges of Madison County is being made into a musical. For those of you who like music and stories about guys who sleep with other guys’ wives, this is your thing. My initial draft of this post contained a faux track list of song titles I made up to go …
