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Faith, Books, and Stuff
Month: August 2011
I used to work for the late Tom Runge of Ace R/C. Since Ace was a small company, you often got pulled off of your regular job to help do any number of things like driving people to the airport or unloading heavy boxes of catalogs. One day I was helping Tom and several older […]
YOOS-uh-fruct. n., the right to enjoy the use of another’s property, apart from wasting or destroying it. “It was the bridegroom’s duty and interest to see that the dowry was duly paid. He enjoyed the usufruct of it during his life, and not unfrequently it was employed….” –Archibald Sayce, Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs. It is an […]
“Note, it is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge.” “Our rule is to pray without ceasing; we sin if we restrain in general, and in particular if we cease praying for the church.” –Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole […]
“I see that you have insanity. How do you like it?”
[KAK-o-EETH-eez] n. an irresistible urge to do something inadvisable. I had never heard this word until reading Jim Shooter’s excellent blog.
I loved almost every minute of Captain America. I had high hopes for it, and Joe Johnston (who also directed The Rocketeer) did an amazing job with it. It was both faithful to the original story as well as new and unique. The cast was amazing: Stanley Tucci, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, and that […]
One day after several years of marriage Heather asked me, “Why do you tie your shoes backwards?” To that point in my life, I hadn’t realized I tied my shoes backwards. I couldn’t tie my shoes until well into my first grade year. I don’t know why, I just had a hard time learning it. […]
“I need to go feed my frustration monkey a banana.”
Customer: “What’s the difference between Windows Vista and Windows 7?” Me: “Vista sucks and 7 doesn’t.”