Dan Poynter

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A Valentine’s Day Lesson

I had just gotten on the interstate a little before 6am. It’s February, it’s cold, and I see this woman walking on the side of the highway wrapped in a blanket. Now I don’t pick up a lot of people that I see hitchhiking, but I do pick up some. Many times I have been …

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Overheard while watching Ghostbusters: 15 yr old female

Girl: Even the Amish people are jumping! Guy: Those are Orthodox Jews.

VBS 2013 Development Diary: #10: Gospel vs. Blues

Both gospel and blues are musical traditions rooted in the American South, both are based in tragedy, pain, and misery. But the difference between gospel and blues is that the gospel offers hope. The very nature of the blues is that there is no hope. Your heart is broke, you’re probably going to die from …

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Overheard: 60 year old female

“I’m talking about them raccoons that’s in my house.”

An Isadora Duncan

“This is what they call giving somebody an Isadora Duncan.” –Filmmaker commentary on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, from the scene where Eddie Valiant gets information from R.K. Maroon by feeding Maroon’s tie into a Moviola film editing machine. I actually had to look that one up. Isadora Duncan was a dancer in the early 20th …

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Warning: WD Caviar Blue 500GB

Where I work we have a lot of computers that have Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GBhard drives–and we are getting a lot of drive failures. If you have one of these drives in your computer, you need to back your data and/or get a new hard drive as soon as possible. I will show you …

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Mustache Twirler

The villain in a story who is evil for no other reason than that he is a villain.

church

I recently got to observe a discussion between pastors on the subject of church discipline, and I got to hear a word that everyone knows used in a manner I had never heard it used before. I have a long explanation before I get to the term. As you likely know, a term is a …

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That’s a nice case

I’m on my third iPhone now, all second-hand, all purchased or traded for. My first was an iPhone 3G, which was great, though it was a little slow, partly due to having to jailbreak it. Then I picked up a 3GS, which was way faster. Now I have an iPhone 4S. The best analogy I …

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This is how you respond to allegations…

Oxo responds to allegations that they are thieves with humor and style. via Daring Fireball