Posts from — November 2004

I was just at the City of Lynchburg website, looking up information on leaf collection. They have a link about composting, and so I checked it out. And I saw something that made me laugh.

It’s in this section:

Is Composting Easy To Do?
Yes. If you’re the lazy composter, then you need a pile of leaves, water and sunshine. Nature does the rest. For more active composters, use a bin; put in three parts brown (leaves, hay, etc) to one part green (grass clippings, vegetable/fruit peelings), wet material, turn once a week, and walaa… compost, (black and crumbly and smells like rich dirt.

Can you guess what I laughed at?

I’d like to start composting, but I am not going to start by just having a pile. Can you say “Welcome, rats, make yourself at home”?

Part of an email I got this morning, from my lovely wife…

geneva just said something cute at breakfast. she asked me to say to daddy, “we eat pizza tonight. we go out to dinner.”

I just watched the trailer for In Good Company. It looks like it could be pretty okay. Also, Hitch made me laugh out loud several times.

When Geneva gets tucked in at night, she gets cozied up with three blankets, and each of them have a name. (Actually… one of them is named “the cozy blanket”, so I probably shouldn’t have said she gets cozied up with three blankets.)

When I cover her up, sometimes I say which blanket I’m putting on her. And the last one… the real comforter on the bed, is called ‘the big blue’. So, when ever I cover her up with that, I quote Finding Nemo.

It’s quite funny.

A new, new Pixar film, due out November 2005: Cars

(kind of) Funny Situation

One of my coworkers, and instructor, was a pallbearer in a funeral today. The funeral was at 1, and he had a lecture class at 1. That lecture class also has a lab that meets immediately after lecture, at 2. He asked me to start his lab, and he would arrive late to finish up. I was happy to do this, and put a note on the classroom door informing the students that there was no lecture, but there will be lab.

A student just came to my office and informed of some “bad news”. She said the class was mutinous… they congregated together and decided that since he canceled lecture, they were all going to skip lab. It’s really pretty funny… those students are so stupid. They are going to get hammered for this. Especially doing this to this particular instructor.

Being this close to the end of the semester, he won’t be able to make up the lab. And he isn’t going to just skip over the material. And those idiot students… they’re going to be tested on it, and they won’t know any of it. And I’d be surprised if he gives them an opportunity to come into the lab another time and look at the slides and various specimens. Very surprised.

There are two students, though, that proved their fidelity. They are waiting for him to arrive… to explain the situation. I’m eager to see how this works out.

This is pretty cool.

It shows a bunch of chinese characters that seem to have biblical origins. Like, for instance, righteousness is the character for ‘sheep’, or ‘ram’, over the character for ‘me’.

Some of them are a stretch, but others seem quite compelling. What does ‘two trees’ and a ‘man’ have to do with being naked? Well, I don’t know… but that’s the chinese characters.

interesting stuff.

Thinking of something to buy me?

This year, for the firs time in my life, we’re going to celebrate advent. At the end of the christmas season last year we got a wreath on sale at Target, which we will use for our advent wreath. We talked about it a bit last night… Megan needs to get that puppy ready!

However… we need guidance. This post by Kelly is really helpful. Does anyone have any other suggestions for books or other helps for celebrating advent?

Imagine my surprise when, reading through a pdf file of George Grant‘s book, The Changing of the Guard, I see the following in the acknowledgments:

Fortunately, a number of kind-hearted souls coaxed me
through the agony and ecstasy of this book project, and as a result,
my hemoglobin loss was minimal. David Dunham, Jim Jordan,
Kemper Crabb, Frank Marshall, Gary DeMar, Dave Marshall,
and Brian Martin all afforded me transfusions of wisdom, encouragement,
and joy when I most needed them. Kathe Salazar, J. D.
McWilliams, and Suzanne Martin mopped my brow and nursed
me along, all the whale taking care of business and holding down
the fort. Great thanks is here given to each of these dear friends
and fellow-workers in the Kingdom.

Among thos thanked, you’ll notice, is one Kemper Crabb. Yes, Kemper Crabb. The one time member of Caedmon’s Call. One time member of Atmoic Opera. Musician extraordinaire. I have several Kemper Crabb albums. I love them. His live Christmas record is one of my favorite christmas cds ever.

This is a surprising connection. It’s a small world, afterall.

Firefox 1.0 releases today.

Here’s a little recap of our Reformation Day Ball from the band’s perspective.

I don’t think I’ve said anything about it… but it was a great time. Next year we’re going to need a bigger place. We really, really enjoyed having live music. It added something to the experience that you just can’t have when you’re playing a cd.

Good times, good life.