October 2010
27 posts
“…faith is a belief, but you can’t just have a belief. You have to believe some...”
– From Deacon Duncan’s post about The Pew Poll
September 2010
20 posts
Wookiee at the drive thru by Adrian J. Wallace
Even though it’s just a drawing, I can totally hear the soundtrack in my head. Happy #WookieeWednesday, everyone.
Super Harvesty Moon →
A Harvest Moon has a maximum level of harvestness, it seems. It comes from NASA so it’s basically rocket science.
Shopping for stolen credit cards? Watch out for... →
Brian Krebs on the underground market for stolen credit card numbers.
Reading and writing and surfing
The hard part about reading books on an iPhone is not being distracted by all the other things an iPhone can do: surf, play games, track my finances or calories, text or email my friends, tweet, etc. etc.
In fact, I’m beginning to think that having an iPhone with me all the time has done serious damage to my ability to focus on anything for any length of time; only one of those consequences...
Race for the Cure →
“The other night, however, a very amazing thing happened. I downloaded an app...”
– Austin Seraphin, visually impaired, describes using his iPhone to “see” colors for the first time in his life.
Elevator
I’m waiting for an elevator with someone, an older guy, who works on my floor. It’s early. I’m tired.
An elevator shows up; doors open. I pause; he pauses. He waves me in; “after you”.
I get in, he gets in behind me. I’m quiet, but what I’m thinking is, it annoys me when there’s that little “you first!”/”no, you!” dance....
Dealing with injuries
Started as a comment on Get Fit Slowly.
I’ve only been exercising regularly for about the last 8 or 9 years; prior to that I was actually disdainful of exercise in general, and very much in denial about how out of shape I was.
After getting into running for a few years, I started to have trouble with my foot; I’d pushed myself into running too far and too fast and injured my plantar fascia...
The last time
She set the plate full of two, 10” blueberry pancakes in front of me.
“Oh, man, I forgot how big those are!”
She laughed. “That’s funny, because that’s exactly what you said the last time I served you those!”
“…I’ll try to remember next time!”