Micah Tillman

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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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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Canada = United States + Nice

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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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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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. . . 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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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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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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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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. . . 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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