So I was at a hotel on a trip and there was a scale in the bathroom. I stepped upon it and was not happy with results. I knew my girth had been gaining but I didn’t realize that I was becoming like a black hole (in density, not consumption). […]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
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Last week I blogged with some thoughts about faith in preparation for the sermon I was to preach today. Except I was wrong. I was celebrating (leading the service to non-Anglicans and Catholics) but not preaching. Which was fine because the sermon preached was excellent. But so that there is […]
We are obviously talking about real, tackle football where the players have to wear protective gear otherwise they would suffer debilitating injuries, that’s how hard and tough this sport is! Sports.yahoo has decided to do a best of list and I admire the fact that they have parted from the […]
From a CNN story: LUCKNOW, India (AP) — He’s a revered Hindu monkey god. And now, he’s the chairman of an Indian business school. An Indian Hindu priest performs prayers in front of a statue of the Hindu god Hanuman. Hanuman, the popular god known for his strength and valor, […]
Wondermark This year I had some particularly difficult issues of students caught cheating. The penalty for being convicted of a violation of academic integrity in our college is dismissal which as dean I am responsible for imposing. But this comic brings to mind the story from my NT colleague who […]
On Tech5 today John C. Dvorak (and hosted here @ http://targuman.org/ daily) comments in passing about the rumored change from .Mac to “Mobile Me.” Details of this are at Gruber’s Daring Fireball. Aside from the name being hideous (and it does really sound like something that would come out of […]
We have been discussing these terms in a committee of which I am a member at our University. I argued that what we really mean is “globalization” because “internationalization” implies national identities and concerns and while that is part of what we are interested in, our main concern is to […]
I hate ’em. Well, not really, I just am not a huge fan. I did ride the Comet at Hershey Park yesterday though. We took the staff for a day out. It was a lot of fun and less divisive than playing “nail the boss with paintball.”