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- 05/10/11
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Why Won’t God Just Tell Me What To Do? - “That would certainly make things simpler in life, wouldn't it? Like if there was a blank page at the back of every Bible, and every morning you woke up and there was a personal, hand-tailored message for you from God. Telling you where to eat lunch. Letting you know how to get another job and when it's going to happen. Informing you of the right choice to make about your relationship.” (HT:Z)
Roasted Peanuts - One of my favorite all-time Peanuts strips. As the commenter says, “There is spite, and there is this.”
Cursive Will Never Die - I found this a rather interesting article. “Cursive writing is in decline, says the New York Times. Should we panic?”
God’s Bankers - A reader forwarded me this article, from The Independent. It discusses how evangelical Christianity is taking a hold of the City of London's financial institutions.
The Danger of Sitting - Apparently a job that keeps you as static as mine does isn’t a good thing. I’ve been thinking of making a standing desk. This may fast-track me. Probably not.
Zombie Consumers - “Economy watchers looking for a spark of life in the exhausted, debt-ridden American consumer are quick to latch on to any signs of a pulse.” What grabbed me in this article was the point that the economy is coming back to life when personal debt begins to rise again. Haven’t we learned anything?
A Parody - This is a good parody of our cultural obsession with video games. (HT:KD)
As the wicked are hurt by the best things, so the godly are bettered by the worst. —William Jenkyn
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Comments (7)
LOL I loved the video! Julian Smith is so creative and funny.
I home school my son Josiah. I will continue to teach him cursive. How is he going to sign important documents like his child’s birth certificate without knowing cursive?
I sign documents with a sort of illegible print version of my name. It started out as print, but now it’s just a bunch of squiggles in a roughly horizontal line. Nobody has complained yet.
Most signatures that I observe, mine included, are completely illegible. I print if it needs to be read and I can print very legibly. But I rarely write anything of any length. I always type.
I just recently learned (in another article about the “death of cursive” that hand printing is legal for signatures.
They may still be teaching cursive in grade school but they are not using it after that. My 18 and 19 year olds can not read cursive at all. When they get a card from their Grandmother the hand it over and ask me to read it. So even though the New York Times writer says it will never go away….I wonder, will it?
I can recommend the standing desk. I switched to one about 9 months ago. I have meetings during the day where I sit, and I take a break every so often. It’s not bad at all once you get used to it, and you are much more alert throughout the day. No nodding after lunch.