THON is the Penn State Dance Marathon, the world’s largest student run philanthropy. Last year they raised $6.6 million (million!) for pediatric cancer. It is a tremendous event that transforms those who participate. I will be headed over today around midday and then the last two years my daughter and […]
Monthly Archives: February 2009
I hope you weren’t looking for a thoughtful post on the biblical character of Samson and why we should possibly consider him a “hero” of the Bible. I mostly wanted an excuse to share this cartoon with you. As it happens we were talking about Judges and Samson this week […]
I stumbled across this blog post (from a blog I have never seen, more on how I got there in another post perhaps) about the new Masterpiece Theatre version of Oliver Twist. It has an impressive cast with Timothy Spall (Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter films) playing Fagin. But […]
It looks like NT Wrong’s blog is finally down. (I thought his Top 50 Biblioblogs was going to continue. Last month I jumped 20-some positions! 😉 ) UPDATE: Two items – A study group in Illinois has taken over the Biblioblog Top 50. Mark Goodacre (of the new and improved […]
It has been a busy time for me and I have not been able to give any well, thought out posts of late. I have been coming across some interesting, some amusing, and some thought provoking items, however and so this morning, with little fanfare or commentary, here are some […]
While living in England I developed a real love of Formula 1 racing. I have always liked cars and I really enjoy watching racing, but not NASCAR. Sorry folks, that is just circular madness in my view. Rally racing, touring cars, and Formula 1. Awesome. This year F1 has introduced […]
I used Nisus Writer (the old one) for my doctoral thesis and book and before NW Pro for Intel came out I used Mellel and contributed to their beta. Both developers have always been very helpful and friendly. Now I am happily using NWP (even for most of my Word […]