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Taken a couple of weekends ago. I was too busy trying to get a decent picture to see if or how he (she?) swallowed that fish, but I suppose it happened. I'm thinking of getting an external monitor to use with my laptop at home–maybe ask for it for my birthday or Christmas. I do…
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Sunday Night Journal — July 17, 2011 I know Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory by reputation, but have never read it. When it was published in the 1970s, it was immediately considered an important book, and seems to have retained that status ever since, as I run across references to it from…
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This keeps showing up on the Google News page, and I keep wondering: why would anyone want to do this? Welcome to Google News Badges Collect private badges for your favorite topics. The more you read, the more your badges level up: you can reach Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and finally Ultimate. Keep your badges…
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Is it possible that the name of the goalkeeper of the US women's soccer team is really Hope Solo? It's not a made-up name describing her job? I don't think many novelists would be so audacious with a character's name. Well, in any case, I wish them well. Unfortunately I probably won't have time to…
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I'm almost sorry. I already have more music than I can listen to. (What is Spotify?)
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Weekend Music (and Movie) I admit that I'm posting this music mainly because I wanted to say something about the movie, which I watched in three segments over the past week or so. It's almost three hours long, and I had trouble finding a single stretch of time to watch it. I tend to assume…
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‘Depressed’ ferret flees Siberian circus (Link removed due to reported malware found at the destination, a story in the Moscow Times.)
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Somewhere in Chesterton there's a passage that compares the Protestant Reformation to a shipwreck, and it closes with the observation that, as with a real wreck, the survivors are always going back to the wreckage to retrieve something. I thought of that when I read this story about an evangelical group which is practicing perpetual worship. …
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Dear one, it is loving that matters. —last words of Elizabeth Goudge's father
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Whenever Windows starts badgering me about this, which as you might guess it's doing right now, I remember that old warning from somewhere back in the '60s or '70s: "When I want your advice I'll beat it out of you."
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