Entries from February 2009

February 28, 2009

A New RSS Feed

If you subscribe to the RSS feed from this blog this is a notice that I have established a new feed through FeedBurner as of ~3:30 ET this afternoon. The WordPress feed has been causing a few problems lately, so I decided to create one through FeedBurner. FeedBurner also allows me to track the number of feed [...]

February 27, 2009

Selective Memory

Today I was listening to NPR (I’m one of those people) as I drove to a Bible study. An exchange between a host and guest made me think. I do not recall the exact words that were spoken, so I will take the liberty of paraphrasing the comments. 
The guest was Robert S. McElvaine, and he has a pretty [...]

February 26, 2009

Finding Bugs in My Computer

I found a few bugs in my computer recently. That might sound like a bad thing, but in this case it was not. For the bugs were captured in pictures, not roaming in my computer hard drive.
I take a large number of plant pictures. I keep them separated in two folders: herbaceous plants and woody [...]

February 24, 2009

One Day in the Big Leagues

I own a Baseball Encyclopedia. Sometimes I flip through it, scanning random entries, soaking in the stories told by columns of numbers. Players who played just one game are of particular interest to me.
A long time ago I found Linwood ‘King’ Bailey’s name. Since then I have spent hours imagining what his day in the big [...]

February 23, 2009

Perceptions of Privacy and an Unfortunate Circumstance

Perceptions of Privacy – Today I was thinking about perceptions of privacy. I believe one of my neighbors has a misperception of acoustics, which results in him foregoing his privacy. When he is in his apartment (next door) talking to someone or talking on the phone I hear the muffled tone of his voice. I [...]