Archive for July, 2006
Friday, July 28th, 2006
George Orwell says that at age 50, everyone has the face they deserve; here's mine. I had my first surprise party ever: after dinner, many friends from the Church of the Sojourners came over to the house and secreted them in the house library. "Come, Will, I want to show ...
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
I work up so joyful this morning; it is so nice to have Bess and Jane with me here in San Francisco for a while. People at the Church of the Sojourners, and in particular the members who live in the Potrero houses where I live have been so kind: ...
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
My life is pretty easy if this is the biggest complaint I feel the need to write about:
We purchased a Johnson & Johnson Reach Easyglide Pro Freshmint Floss, and have had the following problems:
- there is so much wax on the floss, it is hard to use because it slips ...
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Sunday, July 16th, 2006
It was good--make that great--to be singing at home. It's hard to believe that it was just a year ago that I led my first tune at a Kalamazoo singing. It was wonderful to sing with Bess and Idy Kiser in the morning and then between David Ivey and Judy ...
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Sunday, July 16th, 2006
The Canadian National Film Board has put lots of their short films online, including a childhood favorite: Neighbours. (via bb).
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Sunday, July 16th, 2006
Jim Firby is blogging his family's trip from Chicago to California, visiting sights (Carhenge!) and sites (they collect National Park passport stamps) along the way. The trip starts here. Insert obligatory, "my how the girls have grown" here. While humming "California, here I come!"
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Saturday, July 15th, 2006
It was a very good singing today in Goshen; as Mark Miller has remarked, it's a bit like singing inside the body of a guitar. Lots of southern singers, a very fierce alto section, excellent food. It was stifling hot--in the high 90's, I think, and humid--but somehow that was ...
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Sunday, July 9th, 2006
A definition from the electronic dictionary program that comes with the Macintosh (based the New Oxford American English Dictionary):
faith-based (adjective): affiliated with or based on religion or a religious group : a faith-based plan that bilked investors out of millions.
USAGE The preponderance of usage for this term today connects it ...
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Saturday, July 8th, 2006
Here's how it happened. Jessica Beer, a fierce alto from Portland sent out an email:
Hello everyone ... especially my fine friends to the coastal south!
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I'll be traveling through California over the next couple of weeks, and I wonder if anyone out there would like to meet me for some random ...
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Friday, July 7th, 2006
Slacktivist has a very good defense of why it's not enough to be a "very nice person" if one argues for restricting the rights of others. It also includes a good list of Mennonite virtues and the following wonderful mock threat: The proper response to such people is to crush ...
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Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
Chris and Carolyn have redesigned the main fasola.org website. I think it looks great!
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Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
The always interesting Jean Veronis posts about page duplicates in English and French.
He investigates how many pages are returned for a search for the new word "ségolisme" (for which he can control at bit for precision numbers), and how many of these are duplicates due to RSS feeds, etc. ...
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
Evening
Here dies another day
During which I have had eyes, ears, hands
And the great world round me;
And with tomorrow begins another
Why am I allowed two?
(quoted in Philip Yancey's book, Soul Survivor; mentioned to me by Bess).
A Prayer in Darkness
This much, O heaven--if I should brood or rave,
...
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