On January, 29, 1950, Roger and Yuvon Boomershine were married in Grand Rapids, MI. The fallout has been great. Today we gather together to recognize their faithfulness. January 29, 2010 Dear Grandpa and Grandma Boomershine, Sixty years is no trifle! And no one should pretend it is. Nor should they think it was easy either. [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Sixty Years is No Trifle – An Open Letter
Posted in Family, Goings On, Old/Good Ways on January 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Get Rid of Ads on Facebook
Posted in Recommendation, Technologistica on January 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Want to get rid of those uninteresting, offensive, repetitive, misleading, irrelevant, ads on FaceBook. You can. If you have Internet Explorer, it’s tedious and hard. You can click the “X” next to the ad, and manually reject each ad individually. This takes an enormous amount of energy, and you will never win (but you could [...]
The White Horse King – A Review
Posted in Biographical, Classical Education, Recommendation on January 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Had Alfred only delivered his people from the plundering Danes whom he defeated at Edington, then his contribution would have been significant and worthy of rememberance, but he would not have been worthy of the legendary status the the name King Alfred has acquired over the years. He would not have been King Alfred the [...]
Vittles
Posted in Uncategorized, Vittles on January 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sin Hoarders Shannon parallels the A&E show to the situation of her [our] hearts. “But, the more I thought about it….the more I realized that I hoard my sin. I don’t let anyone see the clutter of my heart and the blackness of my sin. I have rotting sin that is so filthy and rancid, [...]
Mulling What Was Never Considered
Posted in Apologetics, Classical Education, Culture Wars, Gospel, Quote of the Day on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Our family this week watched the first of the six episodes of Ken Burn’s National Parks: America’s Best Idea. It’s a beautiful and moving history, tribute and call to the value and nature of the National Park System. I’m hungry for more and sure I’ll bring you deeper in as we go. The first disc [...]
Vittles
Posted in Vittles on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What happened to the Poe toaster? Poe’s birthday just came and went (his 201st), and his mystery visitor didn’t show up for the first time in 60 years? Hmmm. I like the live version better, but this is another way of hearing Taylor Mali’s Totally, Like, Whatever, You Know? rant. AP and Co. are working [...]
Promise?
Posted in Quote of the Day on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Those who are quick to promise are generally slow to perform. They promise mountains and perform molehills. He who gives you fair words and nothing more feeds you with an empty spoon. People don’t think much a man’s piety when his promises are like pie crust: made to be broken. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Vittles
Posted in Vittles on January 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
How to live to be 100. Or rather, how those who do live that long do it. TED Lecture by Dan Buettner One average-Joe on an above-average mission – Beer With Branson A few weeks ago I taught a human how to tie his shoe. Apparently, I taught him correctly. Watch this video to make [...]
Christiana Amanpour is An Awful Debater
Posted in The Things of This World on January 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Maybe it’s that she is tone-deaf to reason. Sean Hannity strong arms his opponents this way, too. Here is what would be an interesting discussion about water-boarding interrupted by Amanpour’s loudness. Things get going about 4:30 and continue into part 2.
Vittles
Posted in Vittles on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting read from Wired about the cheats who rose and fell in the world of crime. Fraud U Want to buy a space shuttle? You can. And they are on sale now! You think NFL players make too much money? They actually work a lot less than you might have thought…something like 5 1/2 minutes/week. [...]
The Face of Desperation
Posted in AMUSEMENT: "Muse" Means to Think and "A" Means... on January 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Remember 1995?
Posted in Technologistica on January 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is an absolutely wonderful treasure of a video of Bill Gates on the David Letterman show. I love the skepticism juxtaposed to the vision. Almost all of us were skeptics during that time. When did you buy your first computer?
Spread Out
Posted in Recommendation, Resources I Use on January 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’ve recently added a personal, finance blog to my Reader. It has been a big help to the way I think, and I’ve taken some good advice from it in the past two weeks…and I’ve already made measurable money by following his advice (dozens of dollars). I’m recommending you to Matt Jab’s Debt Free Adventure. [...]
Vittles
Posted in Vittles on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From recent web treks: Know What Your Email Address Says About You – I was an AOLer for 10 happy years, then bravely escaped. Amplifying Complaints – A simple trick for getting better results when having to say hard things. Wii and Netflix are Getting Married! – We’ve been close to unsubscribing to Netflix for [...]
Take A Gun to the Airport
Posted in The Things of This World on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Really. Take one. Read a great reason why here. Pack a Gun to Protect Valuables from Airline Theft or Loss
Protest Your Own Apathy
Posted in Culture Wars, Gospel on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From Christ is Deeper Still: A protestor against the Viet Nam war was trudging back and forth through the snow outside a Minnesota corporation. A passerby asked him, “Why are you out here? You’ll never change them.” The young man replied, “I’m not doing this to change them. I’m doing this to keep them from [...]
Devastation in Haiti
Posted in Goings On on January 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I hope you are praying. Here is the CIA Factbook about Haiti, because you don’t know much about it. Here are photos from The Big Picture of the devastation (some are gruesome). First Hours 48 Later
Idea with Heft
Posted in Gospel, Quote of the Day on January 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We are simple people. You can’t remember ten things at once. Invariably, if you could remember just ONE true thing in the moment of trial, you’d be different. Bible ‘verses’ aren’t magic. But God’s words are revelations of God from God for our redemption. When you actually remember God, you do not sin. The only [...]
Girl
Posted in Poetry on January 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Nate Wilson is one of my favorite thinkers. Here are his thoughts on the recent arrival of his new daughter. Marisol
Triple Coolness
Posted in AMUSEMENT: "Muse" Means to Think and "A" Means... on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Magnum, Trammell and Whitaker on one screen
Three Months of Amazon Prime for Free!
Posted in Capitalism Works! on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you purchase an eligible textbook from Amazon, they are offering a three-month trial period of Prime. You know that you know a college student. Ask them what they need. Prime generally offers unlimited, two-day shipping on items sold by Amazon (directly, not through 3rd parties), with no minimum orders. Textbooks at Amazon
Whatever You Do, Do Heartily
Posted in AMUSEMENT: "Muse" Means to Think and "A" Means..., Variety Pack on January 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Like these Italian police officers did in the 1950s.
Rut-Ro, Shaggy!
Posted in Culture Wars on January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Things are not well on the Narnia set. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was due out in May ’10, but things are looking ugly in the battle of purity. C.S. Lewis would not roll over in his grave…he would be spinning! ‘Narnia’ Drifts from Its Vision
Best Soccer Goals of 2009
Posted in Variety Pack on January 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
But They Can’t Shoot Three Pointers
Posted in Quote of the Day on January 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidle. – Florence Nightengale
Do Not Fear
Posted in Gospel on January 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Good Gospel words from Andrew Peterson (posted on Christmas morning). Fearless Faith
What’s New
Posted in Variety Pack on January 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Geography of a Recession
Posted in Capitalism Works!, The Things of This World on January 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Very interesting moving-visual of unemployment. HT: Ron Kenney
Everything is Amazing and Still Nobody is Happy
Posted in AMUSEMENT: "Muse" Means to Think and "A" Means..., Culture Wars, Gospel on January 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is a rougher clip than I am normally willing to post…but you’re a grown-up and can handle it. I don’t think I need to apologize, but maybe I just did. Sometimes is takes hard humor to get us to see how self-absorbed we have become…and how little we think of the Gospel as we [...]
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