Kiss The Moon Gnight for Me has been updated. The second verse is new…

So I heard a joke at work… So President Bush decides to go fishing and thinks this would be a good opportunity to meet with the Pope. So he calls the Pope up and schedules the meeting. So there they are, out in the boat with the secret service men and a slew of media people were about, and while they were sitting there talking, a gust of wind blows off the Pope’s hat and it lands several yards from the boat and lays on the water. Well, immediately the Secret Service men jump to volunteer to swim out and…

Am back… pictures to follow…

Well, I’m off to New York! You all have a good time while I’m gone. Blogging will probably be sporadic at best, so I’ll see you all when I get back. Feel free to enjoy the archives or check out some of the excellent blogs I link too. Cheerio!

Larry Wall talks about Perl, Religion, and other stuff on Slashdot. A fascinating look into the mind of a programming language inventor, and some rather interesting comments that followed. Personally, I have no idea how I’m related to Larry Wall, but we do have the same last name, and it feels good to know we share the same faith and love for linguistics and programming languages as well. Now if I could just convince him to work on his website Sweet!

As always, James Lilek’s says what I wished I could have said. Considering the times, movies like We Were Soldiers portray most accurately what it will be like for those who bear the burden of responsibility for protecting their country from selfish and evil men. While driving to work today, I passed a car on the highway whose license plate indicated the owner had recieved a Purple Heart. It gave me pause to think how grateful I was for all those who in the past have served us, the citizens of the United States and numerous other nations around the…

For sunday school: Luke 22:39-46 Twice Christ told his disciples to Pray, lest they enter into temptation. You will note that Christ is not commanding his disciples to pray and ask God to keep them from temptation. He is commanding them to pray, because He knows if the disciples are busy in prayer, they will not have time to be tempted. I think there is a principle here. If you go back to Luke 21:34-36 you find Christ enjoining His disciples to watch and pray, that they might be accounted worthy to escape all those things he listed before. The…

I should have been a linguist. I found myself deeply entranced by a book I found at borders last night. The Atoms of Language is an analysis of the way language mirrors chemistry in its structure. Mark C. Baker, the author proposes that all languages are composed of a relatively small subset of atomic like structures that he callsparameters, whose treatment by a specific language will determine the variations we see in that language. These parameters act like switches and indicate the use or disuse of a specific linguistic rule or option, and based on the use or disuse of…

With so much going on, it seems as though I have nothing to say. Pray tell though, what is it about language that fascinates you?

I managed to get up at least a whole hour than I absolutely needed to this morning. I’ll admit that I like having a bit of time to not rush getting ready. I made tacos last night, so I had lunch to bring with me today. w00t! Now lets see… I was going to say something but I can’t seem to remember. My birthday is coming up, that’s exciting. I’ll be 25, on quarter of a century, just about time for my quarter life crisis. You may send me gifts, amazon will know where to send them. *grin* Well, I…

Transitioning to a new work environment is an interesting experience. Allow me to offer some helpful tips for anyone who runs or works in a company and is responsible for new hires and such. When you find out you are going to have a new employee or contractor working on site with you, then please, assign someone to him who will make sure he knows about all the paperwork he needs to fill out. Please make sure the new hire has a place to work and clear instructions on how to use the normal office resources you have available. Oh……

I started a new work site last week and I must say its going to take a little getting used to. I’m on site with the customer now, so things are less flexible than before, but hopefully the work will turn into something I like. UNIX is a staple around here, so learning that is the order of the day. You can probably expect me to blather about it off and on here during the next few weeks. I’ve decided that Andrew Peterson is probably the best new songwriter I’ve heard in a very long time. He has the same…

Have you ever had a body check? I bet you have. When I was a kid, I remember those days when after dinner we had all gotten ready for bed and in spite of the wisdom against it, all three of us boys would tackle dad. Somehow or another, we would all end up under dads legs and arms, suffering delightfully while dad checked to make sure everything worked. Body checks… see, he’d grab us and tickle in all the ticklish places every so often, just to make sure that it still worked. Dads a bit old nowadays, and the…

The length of days grows longer each morning and it has been too long since I’ve greeting my friends in cyberspace. So what goes on in the blogsphere… Well, Tim descends into vulgarity to prove a point. It’s an interesting point, but some how I wonder if it was necessary to make it that way. Comments abounded of course. Vulgar language does more than just convey the dictionary meaning of the words, it conveys disrespect, rebellion and irreverence for the subject being discussed. It is for that reason that Paul commands us to avoid it in Col 3:8 and Eph…

ValueWeb is a hosting provider used by a friend of mine. I was helping her with some stuff and guess what I found on their home page. *grin* This is just the kind of thing I might have done when I was a kid… in fact.. I do remember dressing up in similar fashion once…

Telemarketers are evil. I’ve had friends remark about this truth, and as I don’t get telemarketer calls because I don’t have a land line, I’ve never had the chance to use this handy little script. You see, telemarketers have a handy little script they use to help them keep on topic and guide you back to their questions. Often times that script gives them an advantage. Well… now the battle is fair…

Oh Sweet the Rapture of His Love has been updated. The music has been written for it and sounds truly awesome. If possible, I may try to get a recording of it online for you all to hear. Take a look at the changes, I think you will like them.

I heard news today that a friend of mine’s father has discovered a lump where there shouldn’t be one. If you think of it, keep Mr. C. in prayer for me. Thanks.

A couple of upgrades may be noticed. The nav bar can now me traversed using the acesskey feature. The bold letters are the accesskey. If you use the alt key, you can select that link by pressing the bold letter like so: alt + h then pressing enter will take you to the home page. The accesskey feature is used primarily for accessibility, making it easier for those who use screen readers to traverse the website. I have also added alt and title attrubutes to several key places.

The December 2002 Photo Essay pics are online and live! This concludes the 2002 Photo Essay. In retrospect it has been a great year and a wonderful learning experience. I wanted to document some of the cool and artistic aspects of the Saint Louis area. The essay gave me a chance to explore places I had never been. I’m looking forward to going back and doing some writing and describing of some of the pictures I’ve taken. Look for some revisions in the layout of the photo section, and more meta date on the photo’s themselves. These changes may not…