As if they needed more hardship. Please continue to keep this region in your prayers. Also, as much as I am looking forward to a snow day, I know that it can be as deadly as any other storm. Power outages are apparently common around here in the winter. NEW […]
It looks like it is on the way. Snow is falling now, somewhat small, but more is expected until tomorrow morning. Not 8 feet as in NY, but enough that schools are closing early today.
This weekend is THON, the Dance Marathon fundraiser that is the largest college fundraiser in the country. It raises funds (last your $4.5M!) for pediatric cancer patients. Below is a moving video, be sure to watch it. SHC has at least 3 THON teams. Be sure to check out the […]
Our daughter’s that is. She has just started piano and is taking to it very well. “Old McDonald Had a Farm” never sounded so good. But this recital included students playing all sorts of instruments. The middle 45 minutes of violin was like one long Jack Benny routine with no […]
Oh my. You have to see this to believe it. Salon columnist claims on the Colbert Report that Barack Obama is not really Black Is Barack Obama Black? Her best line, when finding a new term for Obama: “As black as circumstances allow.” (Via Dvorak Uncensored.)
UPDATE: Ah! It turned out it was the PodPress plugin (that allows me to publish the podcasts throuhg the blog). The recent update corrected the problem. It may or may not be WP 2.1 (in fact, I am sure it is my settings somehow, but I didn’t change anything in […]
Tyler Williams at Codex reports on the Religious Studies Review: Religion and the Internet I just received the latest edition of the Religious Studies Review (Volume 32, number 4, October 2006), which is a special issue on Religion and the Internet edited by Christopher Helland. The volume highlights and evaluates […]
Over at Ralph the Sacred River Ed Cook wonders where this mis-translation of TgPsJ t Gen 4 comes from. I notice that it is common to quote the Targum Pseudo-Jonathan to Genesis 4:1 as Mahlon Smith does at his website, where we find this translation: And Adam knew that his […]
Remember Asterix and Obelix? Of course you do, I learned most of my German from that dynamic duo. Do you play World of Warcraft or DandD? Well neither do I, but do you enjoy fantasy? Well, I have just found a very funny new web comic that reminds me of […]