About what you'd expect...

Stairwells do have nice acoustics.

2007-11-24T04:17:37Z

Now just so I can comment.

2006-10-18T15:22:26Z

Like the subject line says: no more posts here.

Meme meme meme.

2006-10-15T17:05:07Z

via on_another_lark:

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines

We would like to know who really believes in gay rights on LiveJournal. There is no bribe of a miracle or anything like that. If you truly believe in gay rights, then repost this and title the post as "Gay Rights". If you don't believe in gay rights, then just ignore this. Thanks.

mkille @ 2006-10-15T10:00:00

2006-10-15T16:11:31Z

Thanks to timprov, I am now reading Growing up Weightless by John M. Ford. Apologies to timprov (and no disrespect to Mike Ford), I'm not feeling it so far. I'm only about 30 pages in, but I'm having trouble following the story, and what I am following isn't so much my cup of tea: alienation, internal clique politics, and a mix of completely-explained, partially-explained, and unexplained technology. I can tell that it is a well-written book, from a craft standpoint, but...yeah, not feeling it so far.

mkille @ 2006-09-28T18:57:00

2006-09-29T00:58:27Z

I am ashamed that I didn't call my senators. I'd like to blame it on having been in Massachusetts for so long, where I knew my senators not only were going to take the progressive side, they were going to happily ignore everyone else. But I don't think I can.

Guantanamo Detainee Library Director.

2006-09-29T00:40:11Z

It certainly seems real enough: http://www.lisjobs.com/jobs/item.asp?ID=31404.

What depresses me the most about this is the implication that the authorities expect the Guantanamo detention center to be around indefinitely enough to make this an actual position they need a permanent person for.

I'd actually like to do this, but I expect I'd run into trouble very quickly on the "appropriate/approved content" part of the job description, based on my initial thoughts on what those folks need in there by way of informational materials.

I am a somewhat white, nerdy sheep.

2006-09-29T00:28:53Z

How White and Nerdy Are You?

Only 350/400? Grrr...

2006-09-13T05:31:29Z

Language Scholar
You scored a 350 out of 400 on language knowledge.

Outstanding! You've scored higher than even most Anthropology students would. You are probably a Linguistics or Anthropology Professor yourself (or at least a Grad student). You may even speak several languages and are possibly working on a new one. If not, then you just have an endless drive to learn about the different cultures of our world. Regardless, you are one of the gems of any society, always promoting a deeper understanding amongst all people. Unless you cheated of course.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 99% on knowledge

Link: The World Languages Test written by jeremie096 on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Interest collage...

2006-09-10T02:54:28Z

Create your own! Originally Written By ga_woo, Hosted and ReWritten by darkman424

Might check this out...

2006-08-25T04:34:39Z

Colorado Welsh Society.

Hebrews 4:15

2006-08-24T07:03:24Z

One of the fundamental ideas in the Incarnation is that Jesus was "like us in all things but sin." Which usually gets used to talk about how he got sad and mad and whatever, or how he used that bathroom and thought about naked folks, which is all true. But lately I've been thinking more about how it also means that he was *wrong* about stuff. It's not possible to be human and not get stuff wrong. Even *big* stuff. It makes me want to go and look closer at Jesus' pre-crucifixion and post-resurrection pronouncements. It also makes me worried that I'm stuck with another research interest: revelation, error, providence, and (of course) ecclesiology. Sigh.

mkille @ 2006-08-15T21:51:00

2006-08-16T03:55:18Z

From a variety of places, lo, a meme:

Go to this page and have it keep generating quotes for you until you find five that are personally meaningful to you in some way. I came across more than I expected--I really am not fond of quotes as a genre. Here are five in particular out of that more...

1. I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. – Jack Benny

2. One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. – Edward Abbey

3. No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear. – C.S. Lewis

4. I'm just trying to look at something without blinking. – Toni Morrison

5. America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better. – Anthony Walton

I love trains!

2006-08-14T15:47:44Z

Via markgritter:

Got at b3co.com!

There's a couple there I'm not sure of. Did I actually use the metro in Stockholm? Hmm. But I'm pretty confident about most of them.

Cynicism, and not.

2006-08-13T10:12:48Z

Being not a cynical person, sometimes I forget that it's not automatically clear that when I say that I am speaking cynically, it means that I'm being both speculative and disapproving about the matter in question.

(Also, I'm not sure how it is that I'm not a cynical person, given that I have such a grim view of human nature. Maybe it's that, since I don't attach undue nobility to the many good things people do do, I don't get disillusioned by the many bad things. Disappointed, yes. Horrified, yes. Disillusioned, no.)

mkille @ 2006-08-12T09:17:00

2006-08-12T15:18:13Z

We have some furniture in our rented house, now that the one of our pods we wanted delivered has finally gotten here after a week and a half delay. I'm sitting in a chair! Oh, the decadence.

I think it's me and my friendslist...

2006-07-03T21:51:47Z

Which states have state fossils.

Get on the ball, North Carolina and Minnesota and Rhode Island!

mkille @ 2006-06-22T06:31:00

2006-06-22T10:32:21Z

Today's "For Better or for Worse" makes me homesick for the South.

New icon

2006-06-22T03:09:15Z

I have a new default icon. That is all.

Out of context.

2006-06-21T19:36:39Z

From a reply of mine in a lefty Christian lj community:

"I mean, a church could refer to the Trinity as Big Daddy, J-Baby, and the Sacred Specter, and that formulation could be defended as not inaccurate, but it would still cause the rest of the Church Universal to give them some puzzled glances, to say the least."

The thought of a church actually doing this makes me unreasonably happy-amused.

Status check.

2006-06-21T14:05:53Z

House: Sold.

Moving and storage: Service chosen.

Temporary housing: Secured.

Realtor: Had for a while.

Itinerary: Not settled yet, but planning, hey, I'm always happy to extend that.

Health insurance: Paid through end of July.

Divinity school: Accepted.

Job: Still up in the air. I heard negatively from one place yesterday, a job I really would have liked to have. But I'm not stressed, now that I have a rough idea of what our month-to-month expenses will be. More or less breaking even for a couple months is good enough for me, and me temping can do that, if necessary.

mkille @ 2006-06-09T06:53:00

2006-06-09T10:55:04Z

For timprov especially:

One Christian's take on the community benefits of sports.

mkille @ 2006-06-01T13:13:00

2006-06-01T16:58:01Z

Because I apparently have nothing better to do today than to get onehipmama's blood pressure up:

LiveJournal's attack on breastfeeding.

Sports and brains

2006-05-25T10:29:58Z

On other people's livejournals, there was a recent discussion about professional sports and the value thereof. I didn't join in, in large part because I would have been gate-crashing--"hi, you don't really know me, but you've hurt people I love so now you have to listen to what I have to say"--but also in large part because I have lots and lots and lots I could say on the subject--even though my formative sports experiences have been much more about playing than watching--and the past week hasn't been a good time for me to say lots and lots about anything. But, two short comments:

1. Anyone who thinks sports are anti-intellectual hasn't been paying attention. When I played lacrosse, I made constant conscious use of geometry, physics, physiology, psychology, probabilities, and meteorology. (I didn't do much with aesthetics--I was never that kind of player--but I certainly enjoyed my teammates and respected my opponents who did). I don't remember thinking quite as much while playing basketball, but that had more to do with how seriously I took that sport than its available intellectual challenges.

2. I have been very grateful to have sports as a way of connecting with important people. My in-laws aren't going to be able to talk to me about medieval church history, but we can talk about the the spread for the Patriots game or why the hell they ran a pass play from the one-yard line. I'm not ever going to be able to talk about poker or science fiction with timprov, but I have already been paying more attention to baseball. My brother--well, these are short comments. (One of the things I am genuinely excited about in moving to the Denver area is the sports. Broncos! Nuggets! Er, Avalanche and, um, Rockies, I think. A pro lacrosse team!)

Extremely tentative plan...

2006-05-25T03:29:26Z

Assuming nothing unexpected happens (HA!), we'll be closing on the house sale on July 15. Assuming I don't have a job that requires me to already be out in Colorado (hrm), here's a tentative travel plan for us. (No U-hauls. We're doing self-load container shipping.)

Saturday, July 15: Go to New York (approx. 3 hrs). Stay with David, Gabrielle and Adina.

Sunday, July 16: Go to southern NJ (approx. 2 hrs). Stay with Aunt Nancy and Uncle Ed.

Monday, July 17: Go to Pittsburgh (approx. 5 hrs). Stay in hotel.

Tuesday, July 18: Go to Wooster, OH (approx. 3 hrs). Stay with Kent, Nicci, Elisabeth and Charlotte.

Wednesday, July 19: Go to TBA town in southern Illinois (approx. 8 hrs). Stay with Steve's friend.

Thursday, July 20: Go to Omaha (approx. 7 hrs). Stay in hotel.

Friday, July 21: Go to Denver area (approx. 7 hrs). Stay wherever it is we're staying.

We still don't know what we're doing with Reid. I vote for bringing him with us to Ohio, then having my mother fly with him to Denver once we get there.

House sold!

2006-05-24T01:57:03Z

Well, offer accepted, technically. Now the lawyers and inspectors can do their bit.

I am very relieved to have this part done. And, at only 2% less than our list price, I'm reasonably pleased as well.