Archive for December, 2009

Reading List 2010

I mentioned a bit ago that I have decided to take on a reading project for 2010.  Simply put, I am planning to read 2 books – one fiction and one non-fiction – every two weeks.  I hope that I am able to read more than that, but I see no need to put any [...]

December 30, 2009   Posted in: Books  4 Comments

Albert Pujols: Christmas is about Jesus Christ

Albert Pujols: Christmas is about Jesus Christ. Take a moment, if you would, to check out this video posted on the St. Louis Dispatch (that’s the newspaper there) website.  Albert Pujols is arguably the best baseball player in the world.  And in this age of steroids and cheaters and jerks, it’s nice to be able [...]

December 30, 2009   Posted in: St. Louis Cardinals  No Comments

politics schmolitics

A quick gander at the list of categories to the right will show that, well, I’ve written a lot about politics.  I’ve even written about the fact that I’ve written about politics.  I’d like to say that this is my last post on the subject.  But it won’t be.  I have decided, however, to create [...]

December 26, 2009   Posted in: General, politics  No Comments

Ten Million Words

“10 Million Words is a year-long project by Tim Challies to learn about life and culture through the lens of all of America’s bestselling books.” I stumbled across this the other day as I was updating links.  I’ve read some of Tim Challies blog articles before so although I don’t know him, I’ve seen his [...]

December 22, 2009   Posted in: Books  No Comments

New Photo Gallery!

I spent a good deal of time today reworking the photo gallery – new plugin and everything.  Check it out.  And now that there’s a new gallery, I’ll start working on putting up new pictures.

December 20, 2009   Posted in: General  No Comments

Is it hot in here?

Gore’s Arctic Ice Claims Don’t Add Up I just really like this picture that accompanies the story.  The fact that Al Gore mis-stated or mis-represented a scientific opinion is probably not news worthy since he’s been doing it for years now.  I especially like the claim that “the 75 percent figure was one used by [...]

December 15, 2009   Posted in: If you're not outraged..., politics  No Comments

DIY Worship

If you could design how your church worships, what would you do? Lay aside all the questions about how people would respond – let’s just assume it’s a church full of like-minded people (wouldn’t that be interesting?). What kinds of things would you include in corporate worship? Would there be music? (Okay…I’m going to go [...]

December 15, 2009   Posted in: worship and the church  No Comments

Three…

I’m three days from finishing my last formal class for my master’s. This should be a good thing – an exciting thing. Of course, I’m so far behind and have so much to do that it’s hard to be too thrilled at the moment. Which, of course, is why I’m writing this instead of the [...]

December 15, 2009   Posted in: random rambling  No Comments

Music of the mind

I’ve discovered something lately – seriously, just in the past couple of days – that I can’t decide whether is a good thing or a bad thing: I always have tunes running through my head. At the moment I have the majority of the chorus of a Romanian song that I have not sung in [...]

December 13, 2009   Posted in: random rambling  No Comments

The bleeding ugly meanderings…

“There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” Attributed to sports writer Red Smith. I am not a writer. Even as I type these words I recognize the lack of quality in the style and words that I use. A real writer would not be satisfied, [...]

December 12, 2009   Posted in: General, Stupid Things You Can Find on the Internet  No Comments