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Day’s Verse:

Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe.

1 Tim. 4:11

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Things do not look good on the home front. Research for the IQP, which must be done ASAP—within the next couple of weeks, I guess—has stalled and refuses jump-starting. I think the battery has lost all capability to hold electrons; I’m having doubts as to if it has ever heard of electrons, at this point. My logarithmic sweep of interest in Writing about Disease and Public Health has also reached an unlogarithmic plateau as my first writing assignment, a 1000-word “translation” from scientific journal to news article, capped out at 350 words. It’s a good 350, but I need to squeeze a great deal more substance out of the two articles we have to work with. AT least I’ve remained consistent in Calculus: my path of understanding could be described as a linear function with a slope of negative infinity. Unfortunately learning the formal definition of limits (which I hear I won’t need ever again) has caused me to bottom out and Ian’s witty explaining skills to dry up. They’re the only dry thing around here, though—the paint’s not dry, our sweat won’t dry, and neither will our carpets, bed, or chairs. Continue Reading >>

Not that I condone Mac use, but this is amazing. Does the future of computing include hanging your entire computer on the screen while controlling it totally wirelessly?

– KF –

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Day’s Verse:

Women must likewise be dignified, not malicious gossips, but temperate, faithful in all things.

1 Timothy 3:11

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Today’s verse is something to work towards. We gossip way too much without even thinking of it as gossip—it’s “caching up on the news,” or “an update.” As if we need an update. Speaking of updates, Writing about Disease and Public Health met today and the kid Rocky made a fool of himself again. I’m starting to feel bad for him because everybody in the class gives him these looks as he continues to dominate the class and make a complete fool of himself. Is there a tactful way to suggest he keep his highly offensive opinions to himself? And maybe just stay silent unless he actually has something useful to contribute? Continue Reading >>

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Day’s Verse:

Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in expanse of the heavens.” God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so. […] God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 1:20 – 25, 27 – 28

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Lawyers have sunk to a new low in their desperation: helping people gain custody of their pets from their exes. Several points: first, animals may seem human, and though we talk about their “personalities,” that doesn’t mean they are people. You may love your dog, but it isn’t your child. Second, why on eart would cities start calling pet-owners pet “guardians”?! How can we start thinking about pets as people to gain custody of? I have to agree with the judge who puts the idea of pet custody on par with suggesting lamp custody or table custody. Yes, a dog is alive and maybe it will miss its owner for a while, but honestly: all dogs want are food, walks, and nice people to be with. No dog cares who its owner is as long as the owner is responsible; in fact, probably sharing a dog every other weekend would confuse the animal more than just letting one of the people in the couple keep it. Continue Reading >>

I have turned into my mother’s daughter. As if enough didn’t go on at our house…

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Then I challenge you: think of as many movies that originally came from books as you can and tell me all of them here by leaving a comment!

Lesley and I are doing an IQP on scripts derived from books. Please help us think of movies that came from books by commenting ones you know of on this post.

– KF –