4 March 2010
At this point I’d like some user input on the course ‘Another weblog’ will take.
I probably won’t be merely embedding YouTube films anymore. That’s not blogging—that’s what Google Buzz is for. Send me an email if you would like to receive those updates.
In other words, what topics are you most interested in? Bible translation? Humour? Music? Technology? Or would you like me to still post short films?
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. […]
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. […]
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 eight [...]
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 you like, [...]
10 September 2009
In two days, on September 12, is the local competition of the National Bible Bee. I’ve studied quite a bit during the summer, including on walks with Apple’s iPod shuffle—I had recorded most of the Bible memory passages myself.
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