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Archive for September 2006

Kill Us Too: We Are Also Americans

Aslam Abdullah, director of the Islamic Soceity of Nevada, responds to Abu Hamza al-Muhajer’s “recently issued a decree to [Al Qaida's] supporters: Kill at least one American in the next two weeks“:
I am an American too. Count me as the one of those you have asked your supporters to kill…
I am not alone, there are [...]

How Not To Blog

You know you want to. This is how not to:
1. Find five completely random blogs, and read them daily for a month. After thirty days, you will absolutely dread your self-imposed requirement to read all that dreck. Any blog you create will most likely be on par with what you’ve been reading. Don’t put [...]

They Love My Wife

Last Friday Lyndsay had her first substitute-teaching job, when she spent half a day with some second graders.
Yesterday they called her again and offered her approximately one million more jobs.

Simple, Thought-Provoking Entertainment

Indexed is a blog I’m newly subscribed to.
The author - “Old Bag” - posts only images of 3×5 index cards, upon which are drawn graphs and charts, many of which accurately explain reality.

The View Must Be Incredible

According to SFGate.com,
The Stratosphere Giant, the world’s reigning tallest living tree, seems to have lost its title — to not one but three contenders.
The new winner is a 378.1-foot redwood, named “Hyperion,” named for either the moon of Saturn, the mythological Titan, or quite possibly the world-renown album by power metal band “Manticora.”
Link to article.
In [...]

Truth And Love

I want so badly to believe that there is truth, and love is real.
- The Postal Service
About five minutes ago I was listening to this song and starting thinking about six or seven years ago when youth pastors and friends I knew were talking about “absolute truth” and how we have to convince the “relativists” [...]

Oh, The Memories!

Yesterday I registered for the CBEST, and for the first time in three years, I thought about my grade point average.

Monday Confessions

I have a major weakness for microwaveable burritos.
Sometimes I’m afraid of not being good at what I enjoy.
I never watched a full episode of The Crocodile Hunter.
I love casseroles.

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