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Vacation
I've taken the week off, and M and I are going to a Vineyard regional conference in Chicago Tu-Fr. We've been general fans of Vineyard conferences since the late 90s, when I got to tag along with Steve Nick to the national pastors conference in Anaheim (and became a devotee of Don Williams and Dallas Willard), and M began what has since become her ( Read more... ) -
Erik Mongrain's "Airtap"
File this one under "realizing I have no idea what a guitar is."
I'm speechless before this guy...
Any guesses as to what tuning he's in? I say open-D or DADGAD...
ETA: Well, I was way off: he's in FACFCF. Props to him for replying promptly to comments left on his YouTube. -
This, gentlemen, is a cherry tomato!
I know you've been wondering what they've been up to at the Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, since they obviously haven't been wasting time spiffing up their website. With a hat tip to chanchal's post, I am happy to assuage your curiosity ( Read more... ) -
Whoop whoop for 4-day weekends
So M's painting the front room (e.g. office / music room / adult room) this awesome mustard gold color. It looks fabulous. Pictures to come upon completion.
Went to see A Prairie Home Companion last night. Haven't loved a movie that much in quite a while - since LotR, I think. I cried almost every time Meryl Streep sang. The movie is such a ( Read more... ) -
Wanted to be a Pepper, but...
Went running again this morning with Mike, and then biked over to the James Henry trail behind ICC for a little hiking. This trail was cleared and developed by the late, eponymous bio prof at ICC, which duly impresses me - how many profs do you know develop nature trails for their students in their spare time? On our way back to our bikes, we cut ( Read more... ) -
Craigslist goes podunk
Peoria now has its own craigslist page. If you don't know craigslist, you can learn about it here; they're sort of the google of online classifieds (in terms of company mission, style, execution, and popularity ( Read more... ) -
Global warming
"The debate [on global warming] in the scientific community is over." - Al Gore in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC
"There Is No 'Consensus' on Global Warming" - Title of opinion piece on page A14 of the Mon 6-26 WSJ, by Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at MIT
You can read the article here through ( Read more... ) -
Artificial Happiness
crossposted from a comment in this thread in mommyhood's lj, in response to the following remark:
...when he went to med school, he was taught that if a woman comes into his office complaining of more than one symptom, he should just prescribe an anti-depressant.
There's a review in 6-24's WSJ of Artificial Happiness by Dr. Ronald Dworkin, an MD ( ( Read more... ) -
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Took the last couple of days off work for the stomach flu. Slept all day Thu and into Fri except for getting up for the runs and to have soup. Pepto and Imodium work wonders. "Better than a cork," as they say ( Read more... ) -
Memorial Day
Happy Memorial Day. Good gracious me, it's hot outside ( Read more... )