Things I bookmarked last week on del.icio.us.
- Extra Man Sliding Puzzle Explained–This puzzle drove me up the wall when I first saw it. I love that the explanation doesn’t spell it out, it just helps you with the discovery process.
tagged as: media
- Teleflip Home–Send text messages to cell phones via email. Wow.
tagged as: free, sms
- Send Free Text Messages - Txt2Day.com–This looks pretty remarkable–could be a good way to remind people about Chi Alpha events.
tagged as: free, sms
- The Dilbert Blog: The WCM Method–Sage counsel on making marriage work. Slightly off-color language.
tagged as: humor, marriage
- BlogRodent ยป Is the Assemblies of God a cult? Or, Wikipedia, authority, and the cult of truthiness.–Evidently some Wikipedian doesn’t like the Assemblies of God.
tagged as: AoG, Pentecostal
- PneumaBlogs: Select Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Assemblies of God Bloggers–includes several Chi Alpha bloggers
tagged as: AoG, Pentecostal, list
- Pastoral Salaries - Or The Lack Thereof–interesting research on Assemblies of God ministerial wages
tagged as: AoG
- Metamore - Spiritual Movements on Bay Area Campuses–Campus Crusade’s San Francisco area network. The Groups of 3 stuff looks interesting.
tagged as: Cru, college, ministry
- The 2005 Bethlehem Conference for Pastors–free MP3s from John Piper’s conference for pastors, including one on the life of Athanasius.
tagged as: ministry, mp3
- John Piper Resources–compilation of mp3s and other resources by John Piper
tagged as: mp3, preaching
- N.T. Wright Page–a compilation of resources by N. T. Wright, including mp3s
tagged as: learning, mp3, reference
Disclaimer: these links are posted automatically using the excellent yawd hack and are merely things that were interesting enough to bookmark for future reference–I may or may not agree with the views expressed by the linked pages. In fact, I may not have even read them yet.
I hate endnotes. In fact, I loathe them. They force me to read with two bookmarks and for no good reason. Footnotes are a fundamentally superior way to attribute information and are even better for digressing without interrupting an argument.
Yet more books use endnotes than footnotes. Why?
There is no observation without participation. Alternatively: there is no investigation with interaction, there is no analysis without alteration, and there is no looking without changing.
Our neighbor is applying for a job as a professor and part of her job interview will involve lecturing to a class, so last night a bunch of us got together and listened to her practice her Salem Witch Hunt lecture (her expertise is in colonial history). It was quite good. She’s got a lot of knowledge and presents it well.
At one point she mentioned how the confessing witches described in lurid detail their covenant with the Devil which, along with several other intriguing details, involved kissing his butt. Literally. To make a deal with the Evil One they believed you had to apply your lips to his posterior.
And they described this in lurid detail. Lurid.
Being a lover of words, I immediately began to think of ways to allude to the act of kissing demon tush that would fall short of lurid but would nonetheless be evocative. I came up with three:
- giving the Enemy of All Flesh a hiney hickey
- kissing the heinous anus
- smooching the sulfurous sphincter (alternate ending: Satanic sphincter)
Coming soon to a sermon near you…
update: my neighbor has blogged about the evening as well. With a photo. And yes, I am the one who remains nameless. Also, I edited one of my wordplays because I felt a verb that I had chosen for variety was stronger than I had intended to be. There’s a distinction between humor and vulgarity, and I think my original verb was too crass.
Two new words have bounced into my head recently, and I have graciously decided to bestow them upon the world.
- Gloth: gluttony plus sloth. Example: “Over the Christmas break many students are afflicted with a strong case of gloth.”
- Proctological: the adjectival form of proctologist. Example: “Q: How does this puppet work, anyway? A: You have to get proctological with it.”
Be the first on your block to use them–impress your neighbors!