Hosting Peter Bergen who is lecturing tonight. # Bergen was great! Oddly reassuring that although al Qaeda will still be around for the next decade or so, all is not lost… # Snow day for the kids! Work for me… # @LEOLAPORTE if it is really slow my colleague was […]
Monthly Archives: February 2008
109 posts
First a word about these “devotionals.” You may have gathered that they are not fitting the nice little pattern as the various little devotional guides we can pick up in our church. They are, in fact, intended as my devotion as I try and take seriously that part of our […]
It has been snowing since about 1am. The kids are out of school and I am not. 🙁 But I did get to take some pictures of my office. Maybe, to make Dr. Jim West truly happy, I could take a picture of my cat in the snow. This is […]
I am proud to say that I scanned all of the DSS images for the first OUP/Brill CD-ROM (and edited the database) while a graduate student. The scanning was all done on an Apple machine (a Macintosh IIfx, if I recall correctly) and a rotating monitor. About 1/3 of the […]
UPDATE: There is already a subsequent update so once you do 10.5.2 go back into Software Update for the next round. All has been smooth on my two machines. Best of all it fixes stacks in the Dock so that they can be lists again! In fact, it is a […]
Look your Sunday best! Guaranteed to help you be worthy and get noticed by the King of Kings. That about says it all, doesn’t it? Well, no not really, because they also say the products will help you, “Get tight with Christ!”
The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. (Gen. 3:15) First Sunday in Lent Year A – RCL Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7 Romans 5:12-19 Matthew 4:1-11 Psalm 32 The readings from the first Sunday in Lent all revolve around […]
UPDATE: See Kevin’s comment below. Kevin texted me yesterday to say that his blog and entire site have been hacked and are down. If you go to it now a text file downloads automatically. I did the foolish thing of opening (just for you gentle readers) and it seems to […]
As both an academic and an administrator (and someone brought in with tenure) this is disconcerting. President Loses Tenure at Delaware State U. – Chronicle.com Delaware State University’s president, Allen L. Sessoms, and five other university administrators have been stripped of tenure as part of a settlement with the university’s faculty […]