The mascot of the University of Central Missouri (formerly Central Missouri State University) is the mule, and male athletes there are called mules. However, female athletes are called jennies (the name for a female donkey) instead of mollies (the name for a female mule). Several years ago they had the mascot redesigned to be more […]
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Faith, Books, and Stuff
Month: March 2012
“No, it’s logical if you think like your father. See, to him, there’s only two women: your mother and everyone else.”
TOUCHSTONE: This is the very false gallop of verses. Why do you infect yourself with them? ROSALIND: Peace, you dull fool. I found them on a tree. TOUCHSTONE: Truly, the tree yields bad fruit.
I haven’t read The Hunger Games, and haven’t really paid attention to the book series. I had the barest concept of the story from The Baby, who liked the first book, was cool to the second, and hated the third. So I had pretty much no expectations going in. I only went because the girls […]
The other day I was listening to Alabama’s 40 Hour Week, a song I had heard countless times. But one lyric stood out to me that I hadn’t noticed before: “But the fruits of their labor are worth more than their pay And it’s time a few of them were recognized.” I’m not sure if […]
I do some occasional computer work for an older lady outside of town. On her desk she has a framed picture of two mules, almost kind of a portrait. Finally one day I asked her about it. It turned out that the two mules in the picture were hers back in the 1950s. “People think mules […]
“For the great Gaels of Ireland Are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad.” –G.K. Chesterton, from The Ballad of the White Horse
I used my first Mac in 1984 and absolutely loved it, and I’ve been using a Mac daily since 1997. At work I have the privilege of running a 24″ iMac, along with my standard Windows boxes running XP and Win 7. I recently installed Apple’s newest OS, Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). It doesn’t […]
For those of you confused about the difference between donkeys, asses, and mules (I assume you can identify horses), this is for you. I hope I get all the terminology right, because each creature gets it own word based on gender, species, parentage, and whether or not it (in the case of males) has been […]
I am looking out my window and I have cabin fever really bad! The grass is turning green, the birds are singing and the sun is shining. It is hard to believe that it is the middle of March. This time last year I’m pretty sure we had snow, or at least drizzle, in the […]