Category: Notes
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Mountain-biking with Agent Zombie Slayer
My good friend, Agent Zombie Slayer, took me mountain-biking for the first time last night. And by “mountain,” I mean “mostly level ground with a few dips and bumps which often caused me to brake hard, tilt over sideways, and then carefully walk my bike to the next patch of level ground.” At least that’s…
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“Thank you, Bing!”
“Oh, as if he had anything to do with it! (But, you know, I bet in a way he did.)” Google adds the capacity for a big background image behind its classically minimal home page. Shades of Bing, anybody? But, naturally, it seems to work better for Google. (I’m solidly in Google’s camp over here,…
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Sometimes I have good problems…
Like, do I read Fahrenheit 451 or keep working away at War & Peace tonight? Decisions, decisions… [EDIT: I read Fahrenheit 451.]
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del Toro pulls a Fatty Bolger: not to direct “Hobbit”
NERD ALERT: I probably shouldn’t even know stuff like this. But I do, and because you looked at this blog, now you do too. Because of a three-year tug-o-war between MGM and New Line over rights for JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit and the two movies that were to be made from it, the clock on…
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These Three Remain
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” -1 Cor 13:13 I’ve often heard it said in Christian circles that “real art” (which is notoriously difficult to determine, for what I believe are many good reasons) involves three elements: Truth Beauty Goodness I am unconvinced. I’ve read…