Hardly the Last Word

I just posted a score of more than 5600 on medium difficulty, my best game yet. I let one flying creep from the last flying wave and both flying bosses through.? I stopped all ground assaults.? Now back to studying for comps.

On the other hand, it’s a nice relief from hard thinking.

I’ve finally gone and downloaded a ringtone.? (The content was free, but I’ll have to pay for the data feed, which does not receive a monthly allowance on my phone bill.)
Now, if my phone isn’t on silent, my phone will play the opening twenty seconds or so of Cheech and Chong’s “Dave’s Not Here” routine.
I’m [...]

We’ve made some changes around the house recently. The desktop computer and its desk, along with some of my bookshelves, are no longer in the TV room but in our bedroom. The futon is in the garage, waiting for Ollie to claim it. And the resulting free space in the TV room [...]

Yes, I’m addicted to Desktop Tower Defense. I can’t help it.

I’ve been thinking of late about claims that education is or is not a moral exercise.? My readers should not be surprised that I’ve always thought of teaching as shot through with morality.? Today’s lecture, on its face far from discussions of sex and stealing that some folks think of when they think of teaching [...]

I know Heath Ledger has already bumped the chess giant as the celebrity death of the week, but I’m just now getting my head around the fact that the greatest American chess player of all time is dead.? I’m conflicted about Fischer the way I am about Mike Tyson.? I know.? Weird comparison.? Stick with [...]

A sixth grader in my neighborhood was selling magazine subscriptions for a school fund raiser back in late November, and being the sucker that I am for supporting public schools, I bought a one-year subscription to WIRED.? I subscribed to it in similar circumstances back in 2000 or so, and I’m not disappointed with my [...]

Early January

There are only about ten pictures here, but they’re good ones.? Enjoy!

The bummer is that I had to sit inside most of the day, working at the public library, while the most intense snow that I’ve seen in Georgia was going on outside.? The nice thing is that it’s still nothing next to an Indiana snow, and I’m not going to have to shovel.
I’m feeling better [...]

I love teaching the compact yet complex lessons that texts like Genesis 37-50 allow. In seventy short minutes I led my students through Joseph’s moral ambiguity, noting early hints of a scheming nature, a complicity if not a direct malice in enslaving the lands of Egypt and Canaan to the Pharaoh, and the resulting [...]

I just got done reading the first essay of The Federalist, and I think I’m going to try to read all eighty-five of them over the next couple months, largely for the sake of better teaching in the future.
Whenever I teach Plato I try to point out to my students the influences of the old [...]

I had heard in lectures that Catholic theology held that the Christ-event added a sensus plenior (fuller sense) to the texts of the Bible (that is to say, the Old Testament) that they did not have before.? Now I’ve actually encountered one of the texts that articulates it:
Further, [the resurrected Jesus] manifested the truth not [...]

Several things make me think about work lately. On one hand, my formal schedule is looser this school year than it’s been since I started college in 1995. UGA only expects me to be in a particular place at a particular time three days a week, and I’m done by noon each of [...]

I just cranked out new and (I hope) substantive posts over at Christian Feminism and Conservative Reformed Mafia, so I won’t try to press my luck and try something good here.? Just go to those places and comment there.

Call to Arms for Academic Labor
The comments section is more interesting than the article itself, IMO.
When I read some of the nasty posts that use typically capitalist/conservative talking points, it occurs to me both that those called to academic careers probably wouldn’t much like people who think that about them and that people who think [...]

I tried out my translation exercise today, and it went off quite well.? I had my students get into groups of three or four, and each student got a copy of January 10?s?Handout.? Then they got about fifteen minutes to produce as smooth an English translation as they could of the two verses.? Just about [...]

I just looked at the score from last night’s minor league football game, and it looks like Ohio State was once again overmatched.? Perhaps instead of choosing the last two teams the way high schools choose their homecoming queens, the NCAA should choose them the way that every other organized sport chooses them.? Then perhaps [...]

I actually ran across this a while ago, but I kept forgetting to blog it.? There’s a particular kind of insult that schoolyard bullies toss about, nastier than most.? You’ll see what kind in a moment.? The point is that the insult itself is at least as old as the Egyptians, some of history’s oldest [...]

So here’s a roster of the blogs with which I’m currently involved:
Hardly the Last Word.? You’re already here.
Conservative Reformed Mafia.? I just published the first part of a book discussion there.
iwonderasiwander.? I’ve not posted there since December, but I feel like I should.
Christian Feminism.? I’m drafting an essay on biblical hermeneutics right now for this [...]

My photocopies are in, my class website is updated, my request for a desk copy to replace my tattered Harper-Collins Study Bible is in, and I’ve got a page of notes ready for tomorrow’s classes.
Let the Bible madness begin!!