Blogs4God

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I’m startled. Until a few months ago, the world of Christian blogging was a relatively small niche, mostly occupied — as far as I could tell at first, anyway — by an elite clique of South Californian Reformed bloggers. ;)

Martin Roth’s blog list, however, marked a sudden and simultaneous consolidation and proliferation of fresh faith-based content, which now culminates in Blogs4God, a full-blown Christian blogger portal.

And here’s me.

I’m there

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One thing I really love about living here in downtown Washington is that, if I feel like skating down to the Mall or the Reflecting Pool to see the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument by a summer sunset, I’m there in 15 minutes. Beautiful day to feed squirrels and ducks. I got pictures.

New Mirror Project submission, of me in the choir dressing room at First Baptist.

Freaky Museum Mannequin

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In the Information Age exhibit at the National Museum of American History, a decades-old Univac stands in a corner, guarded by a female mannequin with matted hair, uneven teeth, and a missing forefinger. I simply could not resist sticking my pencam over the railing and snapping this from an odd angle. The mannequin may look okay in the photo that came out, but trust me: in real life, it’s really freaky to look at.

Photo taken with an Aiptek Mini Pencam 1.3MP.

The Tragic Ineptitude of the English Male

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“The Tragic Ineptitude of the English Male.” A rather nasty article. What do you English bloggers say about this?

Update, June 2008: Almost six years later, this old throwaway weblog entry seems to be enjoying some measure of search engine popularity on the news that McLaren has written up a screenplay for a Canadian TV show on the topic. I failed to opine on McLaren’s musings back in 2002, so I should probably throw in my two pence now: her experience was anecdotal, her arguments were made from fictional media, and little of what she wrote was of any worth. The upcoming TV show will probably be similarly unfair, which means it should be quite funny.

“It’s kind of like Sex in the City meets Bridget Jones.”

Or maybe not.

Brain-Eating Amoebas

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Brain-eating amoebas. Amoebas are common to any open body of fresh water, and attacks like this are rare. Apparently it takes a lot of swallowed water to get these amoebas into your system. Never smart to swallow lake water, I think.

Update: This story appears to have gotten popular again, so I’ve updated the previously dead link to something more updated — this paper on brain-eating amoebas, and a CNN news story on increased amoeba-related deaths in Summer 2007.