Melancholics AnonymousSophistry and Illusion from The GraberHome for the holidays (and beyond)- December 19, 2003 http:melancholics.typepad.com I have set up the 30-day trial which will last through the Christmas break. If I like it enough (and I think I probably will) it will be my new home from here on out. See you over there.http://radio.weblogs.com/0122711/2003/12/18.html#a359 "It is time"- December 16, 2003 These staves Eomer spoke, but he laughed as he said them. For once more, lust of battle was upon him, for he was still unscathed, and he was young, and he was king, the lord of a fell people. And lo! even as he laughed at despair, he looked up again at the black ships, and he lifted up his sword to defy them. And then wonder took him, and a great joy, and he cast his sword up in the sunlight and sang as he caught it. And all eyes followed his gaze and behold! upon..http://radio.weblogs.com/0122711/2003/12/16.html#a358 I'm not dead!- December 16, 2003 No really, I'm not dead. There's been some snow here recently, rather surprised me on Saturday when I went out, came in, and went out and discovered that snow had appeared in the meantime. Looking at options for blogging over the holiday break. Depending on how well that works out, I may not come back to Radio. We'll see what happens. Two finals left, a take-home and a test and then that is all for this semester.http://radio.weblogs.com/0122711/2003/12/16.html#a357 I'm losing my edge- December 11, 2003 I just realized that a more appropriate title for the last post would have, of course, been "Nuts!" following my affinity for ceaselessly bad puns. But that opportunity has passed now, I'm afraid. I've always heard that "handmade things make great gifts" but I don't know where to start, and frankly, all the stuff I've tried making by hand in the past has sucked (granted, that hasn't been very much). Are there any helpful hints out there for a novice Doesn't look as...http://radio.weblogs.com/0122711/2003/12/11.html#a356 Squirrel sighting- December 10, 2003 I saw a squirrel bolt right in front of me yesterday as I was walking to class on the sidewalk. This is pretty uncommon considering I don't usually see any kind of wildlife at all (I can be sitting a few feet away from a buzzing wasp or other dangerous insect and have absolutely no idea of its presense. This was exceptionally difficult during a high school biology class when we had to make an insect collection. Fortunately my family was helpful enough in catching the bugs for..http://radio.weblogs.com/0122711/2003/12/10.html#a355 I love tents- December 10, 2003 Seriously, I'd love to live in a tent for a period of time. A decent-sized tent, but still a tent. Perhaps this is some of my suppressed ruggedness coming out. Oh, the things I think about when my mind strays for just a moment in class.http://radio.weblogs.com/0122711/2003/12/09.html#a354 (Untitled)- December 9, 2003 It's hard for me to go into a bookstore and not come out having bought something, even if I didn't particularly want it before, so over Thanksgiving break I spotted a book called "Ecclessiastes: A New Translation and Interpretive Paraphrase" by T.M. Moore. I haven't really got into much past the introduction and the first chapter (although he does include some interesting thoughts on the authorship of Ecclesiastes in those sections) but it's nice to see someone taking notice of the..http://radio.weblogs.com/0122711/2003/12/09.html#a353 Raining Men- December 7, 2003 I agree with about 95 percent of this piece, and hate to sully an otherwise fine column by making a fuss over what amounts to a throwaway line, but I have a little rant to make. The older I get, the more I realize that while guys are good, men are great. Within the past couple of weeks, I have actually gotten to be around some real men, and, up until this point, I didn&146;t realize how much I missed them&151;men who camp, men who climb, men who fix cars and build things. Men who can...http://radio.weblogs.com/0122711/2003/12/07.html#a352 On the Board- December 6, 2003 I hadn't paid any attention to this until it showed up on Rock Rebel recently, but Switchfoot's single "Meant to Live" is up to 8 on Billboard's Modern Rock tracks. So there's some corporate radio action in play there for you.http://radio.weblogs.com/0122711/2003/12/06.html#a351 533- December 6, 2003 That's the number of pop-up ads my Google Toolbar has blocked since I installed it about a month ago. Very handy, if you're like me and rarely heed pop-ups anyway, and therefore have the minor hassle of closing them. (That's 533 left-clicks I've been saved!) Of course, there is a negative angle to this, being that many sites get much of their revenue from pop-up ads, and if the blocking software proliferates, they'll have to resort to more on-the-page ads, or lose the revenue...http://radio.weblogs.com/0122711/2003/12/06.html#a350 |