Davin's blog

Year: 2009

  • Amazing Grace: The Journey, new YouTube video from Adam

    My friend Adam posted this rendition of “Amazing Grace” to YouTube yesterday.

  • Question from Eva about alarm clocks

    Eva just asked me: “Daddy, why do people say the alarm clock is going off when it’s actually going on?”

  • Young Earth Creationism—huh?

    In my last post, I ended with the thought that I may settle into a small Baptist church nearby. Well, last weekend I attended the evening service and the pastor used the message to express his belief that the earth was created between 6 and 10,000 years ago. Now, I’ve never looked into the young…

  • Church uncertainties, church seeking

    Last Summer I moved to a village about an hour and a half away from where I have lived for the last 14 years, and so left a vibrant church community I had become a part of. A year has passed, and I am still unsettled. Why? This post includes reflections on my search for…

  • “P” is for parking–-you could’ve fooled me

    The first time I noticed the green P sign in Owosso, MI, I thought it was trying to tell me that the road was going to make some weird loop back onto itself. After a few seconds I suspected it might actually have to do with parking (which, of course, it does). It was one…

  • Note to self regarding “Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions” by Zachary Shore

    I recently finished Zachary Shore’s book “Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions.” I think I heard an interview with Shore on a show on NPR and the lessons from the book seem important. So, some time has passed, I’ve read the book, and before I pass it on to someone else, I feel a…

  • SMASH: I was in a car accident

    As I gingerly pulled a shard of glass from my forearm this morning, I thought I might blog about the car accident I had this past Wednesday. Following is an excerpt of a message I emailed to my coworkers on Thursday morning. I was in a 2-car collision last night while I was driving my…

  • Pistol practice, Apr 25, 2009

    I hit the range again this morning for a practice 900 bullseye match. What a beautiful morning! I started just after 8 AM and was facing East, and the sunshine played a nice highlighting on my iron sights. Gun: .22 caliber Ruger Mk II Ammo: Winchester Super-X .22 long rifle standard velocity Slow fires were…

  • 1st foray with svn:externals

    Okay, confession. Since the mid-90s I’ve helped produce hundreds of websites. Yet, I’ve been using source code management software for less than 1 year. Hindsight, right? In retrospect, I was just plain ignorant. Had I been using something like Subversion, I can think of a few big issues on past projects that just simply wouldn’t…

  • Thanks MS. But I don’t want to disconnect from the Internet.

    That’s just a bizarre instruction. “You can now disconnect from the Internet.” I almost blew it too by clicking the “Cancel” button because (1) I thought it was all done and it was the only button shaped thing available, (2) I do not want to disconnect anyway. Luckily, I noticed in time that the progress…