In Case You’re Wondering…

…why I’ve not written much here of late, here’s the deal: as of 2009, I’m blogging at the new and improved Second Drafts. So, in case you didn’t get the memo, please redo your bookmarks or subscriptions accordingly and consider yourself informed.

I’ve Moved

As of 2009, Second Drafts has a new home, so come over and play (just be sure to wear clothes you can get a little messy). See you in the new neighborhood.

The Kids Are Growing Up

A thought crossed my mind this week that I’ll throw out to see if it sticks. For many of you, this may fall in the “I could care less” category, but since I spend a majority of my time with teenagers, I’m interested.
It seems to me there’s a major generational shift going on in the [...]

Is the Unexamined Friend Not Worth Friending?

About six months ago, I reached the point where the people whom Facebook thought I might know were ones I didn’t. This bothered me then, and still does now.
According to Facebook, I have 369 “friends.” Yes, yes, I know most of these people, but I only really know a handful of them. My overall list [...]

A Call for Links

In light of the results of last week’s poll (still going on), I’m wondering if any of you would kindly recommend the one non-news, non-political, non-anything-but-cultural/media link you cannot live without. I’d like to add a few to my bookmarks.

Take a Poll That Doesn’t Have Anything to Do with Politics

I don’t know if you’ve been polled yet this election year (I haven’t), but I do know they’re a lot more fun to answer when you have more than two options from which to pick. That said, I offer my very first Second Drafts poll, in which I ask for your feedback as to what [...]

It’s Up

I’m still figuring out the color changes in CSS (anybody know how to do this easily and without purchasing an upgrade for WordPress?), but kudos to Kent Needler for coming up with such a cool new header for Second Drafts.

Slow Motion

For whatever reason (rainstorm from last night? Amtrak passengers speeding by trying to hack our signal? millions in China logging on for the first time?), our Internet connection is painfully slow today. As babies are born in the time it takes to load a page, I’ll post something later when we’re back up to speed.

New Look

No, you’re not on the wrong page (actually, you could be, but not if you’re looking for Second Drafts). I’ve wanted to change things on the blog for some time, so while listening to six systematic theology lectures today, I multi-tasked and came up with this.
The header is temporary (904×160 pixels if anyone wants to [...]

Over Halfway There: Update

As Megan and I are six days away from closing on our house, several of you have asked about the latest on the Remember Not to Forget project. An update would seem in order. Currently:

The download page for the songs has had 116 visits.
We have $1167.49 in hand.
We are aware of at least another $350-400 [...]

Introducing

As an unofficial ambassador for the blogosphere, let me introduce you to three new blogs (and the people behind them) worth your reading time in the future:

My Life in Sweat Pants – a good friend from my old Navigator days, Leura is a freelance editor and terrific writer (and I say that not just because [...]

Number One Way to Freak Out Freshmen

So today, as part of introducing an assignment to my New Testament classes in which they are to design and create a webpage, blog, Facebook, or MySpace site capturing one of the gospels other than the one we’re studying (Matthew), I happened to mention to my students I had Facebook myself (as well as two [...]

How Kids Think

This is going to seem a lot more about us than it really is, but if you have kids, there’s a new website Megan and I would like to ask you to visit periodically over the next two months.
It’s called How Kids Think.
Through the strange but sovereign means of God and Internet networking, Nick Eicher, [...]

Expelled

I am really excited about Ben Stein’s upcoming (February) movie, Expelled. I’m planning to show the trailer to all three of my Ethics classes today, as we were just talking yesterday about humanism being the religion du jour of higher academia (with Darwinian evolution its off-limits-to-inspection gospel) .
The website is clever and the movie looks [...]

Links That Make You Go “Hmmm”

Went to see Hello, Dolly! at The Muny with Megan and the girls last night. Didn’t care much for the story as a whole (no characters to really root for), but the production was top-notch and the sound was amazing. We had a beautiful 75-degree evening for it as well, so that made it nice.
Thought [...]

Just Wondering

I’ve only had two comments in the past week and was just wondering if I said something wrong? Am I not writing about anything that concerns you? Someone turn off the Internet?
You’re usually more “talkative” than you’ve been of late. What’s up?

New Home for Half Pint House

Since a majority of you read my blog as well as Megan’s (though not necessarily in that order), you should know we’re in the process of migrating Half Pint House from here to here.
Unfortunately, this means adjusting the URL (now http://halfpinthouse.wordpress.com – update your bookmarks and blogroll links accordingly), but she was just having too [...]

Fuller Disclosure Equals Fuller Discourse

I have no business writing this post this week (the last of the semester) in light of what’s due the next few days, but recent comments would seem to merit an effort. My thoughts here run along the lines of owning one’s influence, whether in the blogosphere, or just in life in general.
One of my [...]

Tragedy Capturing

My friend, Travis, has a good (but too short) post on both his disgust at the shootings at Virginia Tech and the media’s Pavlovian dog-like pantings in covering it all, live and on location. My own impression was similiar to Travis’ – when I finally got home Monday evening and turned on the news, I [...]

Link-o-rama

I haven’t done a post of interesting links, podcasts, and other various and sundry items for a while, so here goes (warning: don’t click these links if you don’t want to think):

I heard this NOW story on Housing First’s Pathways to Housing project, an initiative that basically gives homeless people free furnished apartments as a [...]