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July 2, 2008

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Psalm 138 is parsed.

June 26, 2008

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Proverbs 27 is posted.

June 16, 2008

Proverbs 27:1

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Don’t boast about tomorrow;
for you don’t know what a day may bring forth.

Proverbs 27:2

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Let another man praise you,
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a stranger, and not your own lips.

Proverbs 27:3

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A stone is heavy,
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but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.

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Wrath is cruel,
and anger is over-whelming;

but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Proverbs 27:5

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Better is open rebuke
than hidden love.

June 6, 2008

Meditation in a Toolshed — C.S. Lewis

“I was standing today in the dark toolshed. The sun was shining outside and through the crack at the top of the door there came a sunbeam. From where I stood that beam of light, with the specks of dust floating in it, was the most striking thing in the place. Everything else was almost pitch black. I was seeing the beam, not seeing things by it.

“Then I moved, so that the beam fell on my eyes. Instantly the whole previous picture vanished. I saw no toolshed, and (above all) no beam. Instead I saw, framed in the irregular cranny at the top of the door, green leaves moving on the branches of a tree outside and beyond that, ninety-odd million miles away, the sun. Looking along the beam, and looking at the beam are very different experiences.

“But this is only a very simple example of the difference between looking at and looking along. A young man meets a girl. The whole world looks different when he sees her. Her voice reminds him of something he has been trying to remember all his life, and ten minutes’ casual chat with her is more precious than all the favours that all other women in the world could grant. He is, as they say, ‘in love’. Now comes a scientist and describes this young man’s experience from the outside. For him it is all an affair of the young man’s genes and a recognized biological stimulus. That is the difference between looking along the sexual impulse and looking at it.”

– C.S. Lewis, “Meditation in a Toolshed”, The Coventry Evening Telegraph (17 July 1945)
(Courtesy of Roger R. at the Inklings Blog, and Hat-Tip to Beka)

May 9, 2008

Sweet Seventeen — Ari, The Edge of the American West

“On this day in 1913, the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified, providing for the direct election of Senators…”

May 1, 2008

May 1, 1964: First Basic Program Runs — Randy Alfred, Wired Magazine

June 26, 2008

Elementary illustration, and other upcoming renovations.

I have finished the element logos that appear on each post, as you can see, and will now have some fun incorporating some banner links for the elements into the masthead of the site.

I have also

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June 18, 2008

Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol — Chris Ayres, London Times Online

Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and reserves the right to terminate your license) — Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

June 10, 2008

The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination — J.K. Rowling, Harvard Magazine.

June 5, 2008

Exposure to the Elements.

[Well, after a few attempts at mucking around in the MYSQL database followed by a frantic restoration from backup each time, I have resigned myself to the fact that all the new categories I am about to introduce will not be perfectly ordered and numbered, mostly because the latest version of WordPress will brook no tinkering behind the scenes, at least in the way to which I had become accustomed. Ah well, I shall let it be. Though my geek’s heart sighs at the near chaos of it, the subject matter excuses a certain amount of mild disorder. Without further ado…]

Finding that the current realm and interaction categories left something to be desired when it came to describing emotions, I let things simmer in the old noggin for a while, reading and wondering what to do. After pondering and trying it out for a while, I think I have found a solution based on some old ideas and some more modern additions.

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