January 2008
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you'll probably think this is mildly funny. If you have, you'll probably think it's really funny. http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/271557392 I mean, unless you're a really serious admirer of Hillary Clinton. (Hat tip to Mark Shea, again.) Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Of course conversion stories are always interesting; it’s always interesting to see the different ways and means by which God calls people. Some he commands directly, with a presence that can’t be denied or refused; others follow a trail of faint and ambiguous intuitions. I find it especially intriguing to hear the story of someone…
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Ingenting: The Death Spasm of Christian Civilization Ingenting is the Swedish word for nothing and the word which comprises what I take to be the climax of Bergman’s Persona, which my wife and I watched a couple of weeks ago. I had seen it in the late ‘60s and been both impressed and baffled by…
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Gillian Welch: Time (The Revelator) For most of this album you’re hearing one voice and two guitars, sometimes only one. There’s a second voice singing harmony on the choruses; there’s a banjo on one track, and a faint drum, or maybe just a foot stomping, on another. To hold a listener’s attention for the better…
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Clare sent me this. You have to watch the video to fully appreciate it. Why is it that when a French word is almost but not quite the same as its English equivalent, it's funny? E.g., "l'abus d'alcool est dangereux." Pour la sante!—which most likely means "to your health" but looks more like "to your…
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While we're on the topic of racial stereotypes: Extra nerd points if you know the name of the publisher of the JavaScript book; award yourself one extra point if you didn't even have to think about it. Many or most readers may need to have it explained that this is a parody of a song…
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is a little Iko Iko: About the song (yes, it’s mostly nonsense) Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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This CNN story is amusing. I had noticed earlier today the headline of the story to which this one refers, and was momentarily annoyed by the apparent presumption that if you're a member of a group officially recognized as being oppressed you will automatically vote for a member of your group. Apparently I was not…
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Once again comments are failing to display. They show up in recent comments and I can see them if I log in to my HaloScan account, but when you try to view them you get either nothing or only some of them. I guess I'll move ahead with my plan to switch to WordPress sooner…
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We Got to Live Together: A Note on MLK Day I went to a Martin Luther King Day event at a local college last week. There were some encouraging things about it, and some discouraging things. Among the former: the deep connection to Christian faith, the warmth and charm of the gospel singers and the…
Light On Dark Water 