Oh Tannenbaum! My folks are here for Thanksgiving and enjoy going out to cut the tree. I did not realize that Mack was helping me. It was a beautiful day and we ended up with a blue spruce. Beautiful tree but prickly!
Holiday Educational Video Dept. — MATHS This says it all: Hilarious British (tele)humour at its best. (Via Dvorak Uncensored.)
Updating yet again as we are coming up to Grandma’s 100th birthday in just two weeks! (I originally posted this in 2006, when our son Mack was still with us and 2 years old helping in the process. Now our daughter is nearly through college and Grandma is about to […]
As part of testing the iTunes setup I am republishing the discussion my brother and I had about technology and (a little bit of) religion.
UPDATE: The iTunes URL should work now. You cannot yet find it via a search in iTunes, but that should update soon. So click here to have iTunes automatically take you to the Targuman Podcast! I don’t think i am going to be going into a regular schedule of podcasting, […]
I am fortunate that although I have less time for research due to my administrative duties I do have a research budget. Thus…books! (The average 45% SBL conference discount helped.) A quick list: Conversations with Scripture: The Law, by (our own bibliobloger!) Kevin Wilson. This series of the Anglican Association […]
We just got back (6:30pm on Tuesday). Traffic on 70 south of Breezewood was a bear. The traffic coming out of State College onto 99 was amazing. All those kids leaving for Thanksgiving. I arrive home after a very good conference and with family very happy and still intact. I […]
A video looking back at the Schreyer’s great contributions to PSU. Bill Schreyer Gives 25 Million to Honors College
Today 5 of us got together to chat about biblioblogs, SBL, and stuff. We covered blogging, teaching & tech, Hebrew Bible, U2, and tattoos (go with nun, bet, lamed). Tyler Williams – Codex http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/index.php/ Chrisian Brady – Targuman http://targuman.org/ Stephen Cook – Biblishe Ausbildung http://biblische.blogspot.com/ Kevin Wilson – BlueCord http://bluecord.org/biblioblog/ […]
We have been discussing just this subject in our sessions at SBL. See also McClay’s piece at SBL about “The Goal of Teaching Biblical and Religious Studies in the Context of an Undergraduate Education.” This is a report from the AAR conference that is concurrent with SBL (I belong to […]