This weekend is “Blue White Weekend” at Penn State which is nothing more or less than a scrimmage of our own team. We (the Schreyer Honors College) have made this weekend our reunion as well so I am/will be quite busy. It was also a chance for a photo shoot […]
Christian Brady
I am not saying that the student doesn’t have the academic freedom to do a project such as this (although the more I ruminate the more I might change my mind about that). What I am saying is that I believer her project crosses a number of boundaries, none of […]
This time they are in our yard. I still don’t have enough time to blog properly and there is a lot going on that I would take note of (see, for example, Chris Heard’s series on Expelled here and here). And AKMA posts one of my favorite Dorothy L. Sayers […]
Too many meetings this week to blog properly, but I did take some pics. This is my PowerBook 140 that I bought in the summer of 1992 (just before it was EOL) for my entire summer paycheck. I used it through two masters degrees and most of my doctorate. It […]
As others have reported a giant has passed from this land. The NYTimes reports this morning. Krister Stendahl, 86, Ecumenical Bishop, Is Dead – New York Times Krister Stendahl, a former dean of the Harvard Divinity School and a bishop in Sweden whose scholarship opened new ways of interpreting the […]
Today a Flickr group sent out a call, of sorts, for geeks to put up compromising pictures of themselves. Being geeks this has more to do with bad hair and t-shirts than being caught in flagrante. So, for your amusement (please put down your cup or you will cause damage […]
My wife’s novel The Unlikely Missionary is the prize at The Dabbling Mum. You can also purchase it directly from Book Locker (download the ebook for $8.95 or you can purchase the paperback for $15.95) or you can go to Amazon.com. (And if you get one from Amazon that has […]
I am part of a group of local amateur photographers who have recently formed a Flickr group. Each weekend we have a different “photo walk” to take. This weekend we were to look for old/antique/not new things. Well, I didn’t get much chance to walk outside of my office, so […]