I read something in the paper a bit ago and also was talking to some friends and it got me thinking about a topic I don’t completely understand. Basically, people in general want things and people in general earn money to buy things and buy necessities. This I understand and I think everyone understands. The [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Odds n Ends’
Interesting Views on the Stock Market
I love to read Mark Cuban at the Blog Maverick where he always has some interesting and usually some very well thought out opinions. He often discusses topics that I relate to so it is one of my favorite rss feeds too. His most recent feed is regarding how the stock market is a very [...]
Virgin or Natural?
As someone who has looked into my own religious foundation and determined that I am more comfortable with a more historically acurate and justifiable theology, I found this article on Slate regarding a particular slant on the Churches position on the virgin birth very interesting. My favorite bit from the article was: ?If a heavenly [...]
Snow and Christmas
Now that we are back, the kids are anxious that we decorate our house (well, me too!). Of course, we got snow yesterday so that has slowed our plans – especially for the outside decorating. We plugged away and today I got our tree out (yes, we go the artificial route) and guess what? Our [...]
Would you like to be taken away?
This will definitely take you away. ——————– Glenn
Steven no longer wants to talk to Tom
Interesting post at http://www.nypost.com/seven/09212005/gossip/pagesix.htm talking about Steven Speilberg wanting to step away from Tom Cruise. I think that given his positions on some of the issues, regardless of how well he may try to come across, I think I might take a similar position too. ——————– Glenn
Busy with projects
I?ve been pretty busy with lots of things. Obviously the first and foremost is my family activities such as soccer for the boys once a week. Xander is in week 2 of piano lessons which everyone is still pretty excited about. I walk Xander to and from school everyday usually with Mitchell on the way [...]
Education Discussion
I haven’t hit upon an education discussion in quite a while so when I ran into SlashDot’s post about What Can Improve Education I was intrieged and not by the post, by the comments of the post (that’s where the interesting stuff is). There is some good stuff in there. Posts are from lots of [...]
Happy 4th of July!
I got to celebrate the 4th of July with some good friends and family and even some new friends. We were also a diverse group too. We had people from the United States (of course) and even from different states including Kentucky, California, and Washington. We had people from Canada. We had people from the [...]
Something pretty funny
Steve over at the Sneeze had something to say about McDonald’s ad campaign.  It’s worth a quick read. It gave me a nice morning laugh.
Period of Mourning
As, I’ve mentioned before I was raised a Catholic and take my family to a Catholic Church. As I feel that one’s relationship with the universe is a personal thing, I’ve evolved my belief system into something different. As yet, I haven’t wanted to share a description of that belief and now isn’t really the [...]
Credit Card Signatures
I’ve always thought that clerks and other salespersons that take credit cards just go through the motions and hardly ever look at the signature on the credit card or the one you make on the receipt. Well, my wife forwarded me a site where someone did some personal testing of that very point. Check out [...]
Doctor’s are an interesting breed
I just went to the Doctor yesterday. I needed to see her about 2 things. During my time there it occurred to me that there has been an incredible change for many people in how Doctor’s are percieved. In my parents generation, Doctor’s were often concidered infalible. Often a patient would go to the Doctor [...]
Some more moving stuff from Church
At Church again this week and Father Mike (he’s my favorite sermon giver) followed on last weeks sermon with another one that I thought was moving and relevant to my life (and heck, to everyone else’s life too). 
 
 Father Mike opened up with the point on how the Word of God can constantly [...]
An interesting Social Security blog
This blog I’m pointing you to from the Daily Howler is a long read but very interesting and entertaining. 
 
 It really goes into how confusing the whole topic is and how even “experts” are out there confusing and obfuscating issues. Read it.