Posted in Life on Mar 13th, 2010
So, I was sitting on the couch, eating breakfast, and reading Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision, by N.T. Wright, this morning.
I noticed I was having a hard time reading — even more of a hard time than usual, that is. Then I noticed that words on the page were disappearing. That is, I had [...]
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Posted in Life on Mar 9th, 2010
I notice this every time I have to grade an exam (as I was just doing earlier this week).
The issue is whether ampersands point to the right or left.
The answer is that ampersands point right. They are Es, not 3s.
This is because the ampersand is just shorthand for “Et,” which is the Latin/French word for [...]
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Posted in Culture, Life on Feb 12th, 2010
Canada = United States + Nice
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Posted in Life on Feb 11th, 2010
Okay, so it’s the morning after, and I was amused (perhaps I shouldn’t have been) to see this out the window:
You will, of course, recognize the car parked across the street. The SUV “behind” it, is now on the side of the road. They got it to slide/lurch into that position. It was pretty amazing [...]
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Posted in Life on Feb 10th, 2010
Looking up the hill:
See the car across the road in the lower right-hand corner?
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There’s no getting down the hill:
Four guys tried and tried and tried and tried to get the car unstuck.
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Here’s what you would get to if you could get past the car (which you couldn’t):
A wasteland.
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Strangely enough, some people want to be out [...]
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Posted in Life on Feb 9th, 2010
. . . four hours late.
No one could go to work today, because Snowpocalypse 2: Snoverkill was going to start at noon.
But it didn’t.
Sound familiar?
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Posted in Life on Feb 9th, 2010
Well, Snowpocalypse 2: Snoverkill hasn’t yet begun, but here’s some more pictures of Snowpocalypse 1.
The Wife and I walked to our nearest Giant last night, and along the way saw this:
Today, when I went to take out the trash, I noticed this:
And up close, it looked like this:
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Posted in Life on Feb 7th, 2010
Spent a few hours digging out the car today. Thought I’d share some pictures:
The front of our car.
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The back of our car.
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The whole car.
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Snow piled up against our car.
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Looking down the street from behind our car.
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Looking back toward the building, along the little path I dug.
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The front hood and windshield of our car, as [...]
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Posted in Life on Feb 6th, 2010
Okay, so we’re all excited about all this down here in the Metropolitan DC Area. I’m sure it would be nothing in other areas of the country, but you know how it is.
Here are some pictures I’ve taken from the safety of the third floor of our apartment building.
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Posted in Life on Feb 5th, 2010
. . . and that it has been for a while.
But it isn’t, and hasn’t been.
I was supposed to give my students their Descartes Exam today. . . . But no. Campus is closed because of all the snow.
But there is no snow.
It’d better start snowing soon and hard, or I am going to be [...]
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