Year: 2007

Thanks to ‘s reaction to my regular “Churchylizing” away message for Sunday mornings, the following t-shirt idea popped into my head. However, I’m not sure on the proper way to art it up, since I haven’t taken chemistry in 7 years. First, we have a quotation from John 1 “In the beginning was the Word”;…

Random thought of the day: Today’s gospel was Luke 13:10-17, the story of Jesus healing a woman in the temple on the Sabbath. I was reminded that, sometime shortly after learning this story in Sunday School, my sister and I started saying on Sundays that we couldn’t do our chores because it was the day…

So, my flight from Minneapolis back to Boston happened to have a group of at least 50 Japanese students. While waiting for my checked baggage, I noticed something: the typical American traveler uses what I would call a roller bag (a few, like me, use duffels or rolling duffels), whereas all of these students had…

I think I saw 2001 the movie first, certainly didn’t understand it, then I read all four books in high school at some point. I don’t think I was even aware that there was a second movie until Netflix recommended it to me last year some time (yes, it only just now made it to…

Thanks to my boss’ Silver Elite status, I got to tag along up into First Class with him. It’s just a shuttle flight, so no real food or anything, but we got extra snacks, and big seats. It wasn’t quite as awesome as I expected. I guess it’s a bigger deal for longer flights. On…

I guess going over 24 years without a bee sting is a good run. I understand the bee’s motivations though. If I got hit by a forehead hundreds of times my size moving at 20 MPH, I’d sting first and ask questions later too. Go go gadget hydrocortizone!

Breaking my hiatus to rant. So, before my trip this past week, I was digging through my mail pile, trying to find my July T pass. No sign of it. I figured I had just missed it coming in, but it’s a recognizable envelope that I usually pull out of the pile right away. Today,…

Question: why do I get incredibly uncomfortable, to the point of having a strong desire to leave the area, when a parent is yelling or otherwise strongly disciplining their child (“Don’t make me count to three!” and so on)? Was I not yelled at enough as a kid? Am I just a huge pushover? Do…

Before a NOVA episode: “The following program contains explicit visual material. Viewer discretion is advised.” The subject matter is bonobos, but I guess they must show stuff about the Congo wars. It was not accompanied by the Fox announcer saying “Viewer discretion… is advised” in a voice that makes it sound like “viewer discretion” is…

Tonight, the was Pubcrawl, and it was good. We hit The Avenue, the BU Pub, Cornwall’s, and Crossroads, although we did cheat and ride the T from Coolidge Corner to BU East. There was beer, and I finished the evening with an Irish Car Bomb, which may have been less than good. Thanks to Boston’s…