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Rowan String Camp 2010
27 July 2010
I recently returned from the 2010 string camp at Rowan University. The same amazing teachers were there as there were last year. This time I made some quick recordings of the music I played. […]
Email addiction
7 June 2010
Email addiction is a pretty big problem in the technological world, it seems. I just read somewhere that part of the problem is that businessmen feel the need to be always in touch with their employer, even if it’s the weekend or they’re on vacation. […]
Harvey Newcomb
10 February 2010
How to be a man and How to be a lady are two books by the nineteenth-century pastor and writer Harvey Newcomb. These two books are unfortunately not very well known nowadays, but they are excellent books on character and manners. They are realistic, not sentimentalized; plain, not complicated; direct, not meandering. […]
2009 National Bible Bee: Thursday
5 December 2009
This is the account of the first day of competition at the National Bible Bee.
In the morning I rose early (at least relatively to my normal schedule)—around 6:30, I believe. The night before I had got into bed early also, but as the heat was turned up to 68·5°F, I could not sleep: we do not heat the house at night, and so I am used to the house being relatively cold during the autumn and winter months. Furthermore, I am not used to the sheer number of sheets and pillows provided at the hotel. It wasn’t until after I turned the heat down to 60°F that I slept; I probably did not actually fall asleep till midnight. […]
2009 Bible Bee: Overview
14 November 2009
Well, now that my eight-week blogging break is over, I’m going to try to give as full an account as possible of my whole experience at the Bible Bee. (After all, everyone’s just been waiting for it, right?) During the summer I did not do nearly as much studying—and that not as efficiently—as in the [...]
Results for the local Bible Bee
18 September 2009
I’m in! I’ll be competing in the National Bible Bee in Washington, D.C., 4–6 November. I’ll have to be studying a lot—there are around 1500 verses to have memorized. I’ve done somewhat less than half of them. So until then, I am taking an official eight-week blogging break. Comments are more than welcome; e-mail if [...]