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Posts from — April 2006

AiG Books

I posted a page to the right that has links to online versions of various books Answers in Genesis has put out. Take a look.

April 6, 2006   2 Comments

speed read update

So, I was browing my archives, seeing what I was up to this time last year, and saw my speed reading post.

The first time I took the test I got 199 words per minute. A year and a half or so later, I got 243wpm.

I retook it again today and got 340!

And I got 100% comprehension, although part of that was just because I looked at the answers and chose the one that made sense, not because I remembered reading it.

April 4, 2006   4 Comments

16 Military Wives

16 Military Wives
The Decemberists

Sixteen military wives
Thirty-two softly focused, brightly-colored eyes
Staring at the natural tan
Of thirty-two gently clenching, wrinkled little hands

Seventeen company men
Out of which only twelve will make it back again
Sergeant sends a letter to five military wives
His tears drip down from ten little eyes

Cheer them on to their rivals
Cause America can
And America can’t say no
And America does
If America says it’s so
It’s so
And the anchorperson on tv
Goes la-di-da-di-da

Fifteen celebrity minds
Leading their fifteen sordid, wretched checkered lives
Will they find their solution in time?
Using their fifteen pristine moderate liberal minds

Eighteen academy chairs
Out of which only seven really even care
Doling out a garland to five celebrity minds
They’re humbly taken by surprise

Cheer them on to their rivals
Cause America can
And America can’t say no
And America does
If America says it’s so
It’s so
And the anchorperson on tv
Goes la-di-da-di-da-da-didi-didi-da
La-di-da-di-da-da-didi-didi-da

Fourteen cannibal kings
Wondering blithely what the dinner bell will bring
Fifteen celebrity minds
Served in a leafy bed of sixteen military wives

Cheer them on to their rivals
Cause America can
And America can’t say no
And America does if
America says it’s so
It’s so
And the anchorperson on tv
Goes la-di-da-di-da-da-didi-didi-da
La-di-da-di-da-da-didi-didi-da

April 4, 2006   3 Comments