I joke, of course.? Ollie and Sue returned to West Virginia yesterday after providing wonderful help for Mary and Micah and Miriam and me for well over two weeks, and already this morning I could tell how much they had been helping us.? The good news for them is that they get to return to [...]
I’m not sure why I’ve been exposed to this talking point so often in the last few days, but once again I’m hearing and reading people calling Obama voters pro-abortion voters. ?Some leave the sentence enthymemic, but others go ahead and finish, saying that a vote for McCain would have been an anti-abortion vote. I [...]
Sansa Connect 4GB I got this little gem in the worst of circumstances: I had acquired for very little money its more expensive cousin, the Sansa View 8GB, and one day, the hold switch (which is built into the power switch, a rotten engineering choice) decided to stick in the locked position.? So I couldn’t [...]
I’ve written here before that I enjoy the Theos-Seekers, our younger-adult Sunday school class at Athens Christian Church, and that hasn’t changed. ?Two weeks ago, while reading Phillip Yancey’s The Jesus I Never Knew as a class, we read one of my favorite bits of my favorite gospel, namely Mark 6, and it took us [...]
I meant for that last YouTube clip to publish today (to buy me some time), but I suppose folks want to see some more still photos too. So here they are! Miriam September 2009
Here’s some more Miriam footage. I’ll put up more still pictures when we have a good batch to put up.
Things are going well at home. ?Miriam is already on a newborn’s eating-and-pooping schedule, and Mary and I are, so far, keeping up nicely. On the work front, I’m a week behind (as is to be expected), so I don’t know how much if any I’ll be writing here over the next few days. ?Just [...]
If the papers go by too slowly, I get frustrated. If the papers go by too quickly, I feel guilty for paying inadequate attention. There is no middle ground. Mu.
Did Daddy get a new toy when we got news of Miriam’s advent? Yes Daddy did. Incidentally, those of you who saw Micah’s baby pics back in 2005 might be suspicious that I’ve just photoshopped some pink clothes onto those pictures. ?No, but this girl is without a doubt a Gilmour.
Here they are, just as promised: Miriam’s first pics on the Internet. ?Enjoy! Miriam’s Big Entrance
Well, I was going to upload one of Miriam’s less-than-an-hour-old pictures so that everybody could see, but the hospital’s wireless connection is kind of slow the way the Pope is kind of German.? My website provider disconnected twice, assuming that I was just kidding about uploading a file.? So keep looking back here for pictures, [...]
In case you haven’t gotten the word yet, Mary was admitted to the labor and delivery wing of the hospital at 7:00 last night.? We’re having us a baby.
I thought I’d become immune to such things, but looking back, I realize now that some parts of me have not outgrown my Milligan petulance. I’ve liked Picasso’s Guernica ever since I became aware of it in college, and the painting became especially powerful in my imagination after somebody for some reason (the right-wing media [...]
Well, it’s been eleven days now since doctors put us on “any day now” notice, but that’s just not binding on a little girl, I suppose. ?No baby yet. I’m also approaching the halfway point of Richard Dawkins’s book The God Delusion, and I’ve been scribbling furiously for a blog review of it. ?I know [...]
Several months ago, I wanted to take the Sunday school class I teach through some systematic theology, so I thought I might want to look into Coffee House Theology, which I had heard about on Homebrewed Christianity. ?Unfortunately, I remembered the title wrong, and I got Coffee Shop Theology instead. ?In my ignorance, I quickly [...]
Perhaps I’m the only one who’s run into this sentiment, but I’ve heard three different people now marvel at youngsters’ prowess playing Guitar Hero, noting (with variations) that, if only we could “harness that ability,” we could do great things. ?The working assumption seems to be that the mental/physical human processes that go into that [...]
My new daughter decided not to arrive in the air-breathing world before I made my three public appearances, and I’ll admit that I’m relieved.? I didn’t have to punt any of the three, and I can say I completed each, if not brilliantly, in good faith.? Yesterday’s sermon in front of Emmanuel College’s convocation service [...]
I’ll admit that, at this point, nothing about cable-news-era American partisan shenanigans should surprise me.? I’ve seen push polls and astroturf organizing, free speech zones and major party convention speeches involving the word “spitballs.”? And I’ll also admit that, since I started my new job, I haven’t dedicated any significant time to watching or even [...]
CBC Radio Podcast: Ideas, August 31 I’m a big fan of David Simon, both for The Corner and The Wire and for his outspoken criticisms of the newspaper industry. ?I think he does well to push the demise of newspapers backwards beyond the rise of CraigsList and towards the business practices of the papers themselves. [...]
Enjoy this little page of mash-ups. H/T Eli Gaultney
