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Sep 20
VBS 2013 Development Diary: #13: Experimentation & Doubt
VBS is over now. I hadn’t posted a VBS update in a while simply because we had reached that point in the project where we were in the thick of doing the heavy lifting–building sets, making costumes, creating and acquiring props, and rehearsing. Sometimes that can get kind of hairy, as we don’t often have …
Sep 18
Quotable: Theodore Roosevelt
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
Sep 15
One of my favorite gifts
This is the front of my Mac at work. The attached clipping is from a Pearls Before Swine comic that was clipped out and given to me by my wife. This is one of my favorite things that I have received—not because of its intrinsic value—but because of what it represents. At work I am …
Sep 13
Quotable: Road Warrior Hawk
“We snack on danger! We dine on death! And dead men don’t make money!”
Sep 06
Quotable: John Moltz
“As for the Surface, Microsoft was forced to write off its unsold inventory to the tune of $900 million, which is a really lousy song. Like Coldplay, Nickelback, and Creed all got together and collaborated on a song.” –from his MacWorld article on device philosophy
Sep 03
Theology of Air Conditioning
Jonah 4:8, “…and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
Aug 31
Quotable: Cardinal Richelieu
“If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.” –attributed to Richelieu, but not conclusively his.
Aug 29
The Furies
The names of the Furies in Greek mythology: Megaera [jealous] Tisiphone [blood avenger] Alecto [unceasing in pursuit]
Aug 26
Quotable: Adam Clarke
“Wherever bitterness is, there love is wanting. And where love is wanting in the married life, there is hell upon earth.” –Adam Clark in his commentary on Colossians 3:19
Aug 24
Wobbly Hedgehog Syndrome
A humorously named but very sad real disease that affects domesticated African Pygmy hedgehogs.
