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Vacation in the Keewenaw
For the past week I’ve had Lila and Eva with me up in Keewenaw in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I grew up here, and we’ve been staying at my parents’ house. We’ve spent the last few days at our family’s cottage (we call it a “camp”) on Portage Lake. The photos of the ducks…
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Amazing Grace: The Journey, new YouTube video from Adam
My friend Adam posted this rendition of “Amazing Grace” to YouTube yesterday.
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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?”
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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…
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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…
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…