Archive for March, 2007
Friday, March 30th, 2007
Signs of the Apocalypse:
[Reporting on NCAA tournament pool at Powerset]: Will Fitzgerald is now in the lead, followed by Lukas, then Dave. If Georgetown wins Dave Simpson is in VERY good shape.
Here is the Breakdown going into the final four:
Will Fitzgerald: 78 (teams left: FLA, OSU)
Lukas B: 77 ...
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Mark writes about serving pancakes for supper for the first time (and claims to be the first evah to blog about it).
And it reminded me how much I like Alaga syrup, "The official syrup and hot sauce of the Montgomery Biscuits." I have no idea when I first started ...
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
An interesting idea: Ficlets. Anyone can write a 1k story portion (a "fictlet"); anyone can write prequels and sequels to any ficlet. All under a Creative Commons 2.5 license.
Is this a "bite size medium," or will a chains of ficlets (or the entire space of probabilities for a ficlet chain) ...
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Excellent teaching by Debbie Gish at Church of the Sojourners in San Francisco, Reading the Revelation at Lent. Excerpt:
Like it or not, which often I don’t, we are actually in a battle, in a war. Being strong, being focused, being whole hearted and single-minded are painfully necessary....This isn’t a war ...
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
A fun word game oddly related to my current work: Varun's word games.
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