Facade of a building on Lindel Blvd…
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walljm
I have been writing on the web since 2000. I am a christian , a photographer, an occasional poet, a recovering dreamer, an occasional philosopher, a software developer, an autodidact, and I resemble the INFP personality type.
In describing the character and motivations of one Mr. Osborne toward a certain Mr. Sedley:One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.This is interesting for other reasons also, in that the motivation to be consistent is important and far reaching in its ability to modify our actions as human beings. This particular hook into our minds is discussed in the book, Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion which I had the opportunity to read recently.
Describing the not so venerable Mrs. Crawley:Picture to yourself, oh fair young reader, a worldly, selfish, graceless, thankless, religionless old woman, writhing in pain and fear, and without her wig. Picture her to yourself, and ere you be old, learn to love and pray!
An excerpt from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery describing the heart of Amelia.But there are things, look you, of a finer texture than fur or satin, and all Solomon’s glories, and all the wardrobe of the Queen of Sheba–things whereof the beauty escapes the eyes of many connoisseurs. And there are sweet modest little souls on which you light, fragrant and blooming tenderly in quiet shady places;
Another view of the State Bank Sign
Two good friends are getting married today. And I have the honor of standing guard and ushering them into their new life together. Daniel has written a few words on his feelings about today, and I wanted to second the emotion, and let them both know I’m excited and honored to know them both and to be a part of their wedding.Dear Jenn and Daniel, it is my prayer for you both that God will bless you and your new family. As you both learn and cultivate your life together, I pray God will be present at every step, and…
From the middle of the intersection, looking North West.
An old neon and iron tower for State Bank.
As Adam Turoff explained once, Perl has two subtle advantages: manipulexity and whipituptitude. It’s very important to be able to solve the problem at hand simply and easily without languages and tools and syntax getting in your way. That’s whipituptitude. Manipulexity is the ability to use simple tools and build a sufficiently complex solution to a complex problem.What is Perl 6? by chromatic
I swear, she’s a card. The funny thing is, she isn’t imitating, she knows what she’s doing. Most enchanting little girl, and my niece. ;)
I think this photo speaks for itself.
Truly, the best blonde joke I’ve ever encountered. You may very well hate me or love me forever for this…
My mom and dad, at Thanksgiving 2005.
This is my Grandmother and Grandfather some 50 years ago. It would have been close to, or just after WW2.
The soft white winter approaches And sings me a lullaby The smooth sweet slumbering night A deep and darkening sky And dreams of future years to come Remind of the years gone by Changing seasons come to close A new beginning drawing nigh
A friends Ikonboard failed recently with an error saying:Ikonboard has exited with the following error:Modification of a read-only value attemptedThe problem ended up being caused by a change in the DBI.pm module from 1.49 to 1.50. The offending code is below:275 # check for weaken support, used by ChildHandles276 my $HAS_WEAKEN = eval { 277 require Scalar::Util;278 # this will croak() if this Scalar::Util doesn’thave a working weaken().279 Scalar::Util::weaken(my $test = "foo"); 280 1;281 };The error is on line 279. The negates the " and instead of passing a reference to a scalar value to the weaken function, if returns…
You’re probably wondering where all the new photos are, and possibly what happened to new text.Me too!Heh. Just kidding. Truth is, I’ve been pretty busy. With the holidays and preparation for surgery in a couple weeks, and a wedding to go to in SC, and trying to catch up with responsibilities at work and church, I just haven’t had enough time to go out and photograph anything new, and I’ve run out of stuff to post from the archives.Not a good enough excuse? Darn.Ok, here is my promise to you. I will devote a good 6 hours this coming Saturday…
My grandmother on my mom’s side comes from the Read family line, and like her father and many generations before her, she loves to tell stories. She also loves to read, and spend much of her time these days reading books and reading her Bible. Weaker now than she used to be physically, she stands a giant of her generation in faith. Women of her stature are rare, and I am thankful for her influence on my family.
