Category: Asides

short lit­tle sound­bytes

Steffa

Only a few read­ers will under­stand the ref­er­ence, but for today Stef­fa is offi­cial­ly a turkey. One of her alum­ni works in the Stan­ford reg­is­trar’s office and she nev­er told me! Con­sid­er your­self turk­i­fied, my friend.

T‑Shirts On Campus Today

While tabling on cam­pus today I saw two t‑shirts that tick­led me. The first was a Che Rea­gan t‑shirt. The shirt is delight­ful­ly ambigu­ous. Side note: the Che Jesus t‑shirts just don’t have that same vibe–the beret is just too much. The oth­er was a Kerry/Gore t‑shirt. Kerry/Gore? What? They were nev­er even run­ning mates. It was Gore/Lieberman in 2000 and then Kerry/Edwards in 2004. I’m sure the shirt was sup­posed to be some sort of state­ment, but I can’t for the life of me fig­ure it out.

RunThere.com

While work­ing the con­tact table on cam­pus Alan told me about a web­site a friend of his has set up called RunThere.com. Which I think is fun­ny because it could also be RuntHere.com–a site to help you find short peo­ple like me. Any­way, it’s a great site for run­ners or for any­one else who needs to cal­cu­late dis­tance as the crow flies.

Not Exactly The Trinity, If You Know What I Mean

Towards the end of our time on cam­pus today, as the line to reg­is­ter bicy­cles extend­ed into the dozens, three extreme­ly cur­va­ceous, biki­ni-clad upper­class­men began sun­bathing in White Plaza in full view of the fresh­man bicy­cle reg­is­tra­tion line. I sup­pose they each want­ed a fresh man. I would not be sur­prised to learn that they accom­plished their goal–at the very least they gave the frosh gals eat­ing dis­or­ders and the frosh guys neck cricks.

seen today on campus

While at our con­tact table, I spot­ted a stu­dent wear­ing a shirt sport­ing the word Juven­tus. Alan Asbeck and I spec­u­lat­ed as to its mean­ing, final­ly decid­ing that it was a com­pos­ite of juve­nile and momen­tous and was used to describe events of cos­mic sig­nif­i­cance to young people–such as a prom theme. Alas, it turns out to be an Ital­ian soc­cer team.

Dembski Does Daily Show

William Dem­b­s­ki was on the Dai­ly Show tonight for a pan­el dis­cus­sion on evo­lu­tion. He did much bet­ter than I expect­ed, although it was obvi­ous that Jon Stew­art did­n’t real­ly under­stand the dif­fer­ences between old-school cre­ation sci­ence and the intel­li­gent design camp (or per­haps he sim­ply did­n’t care about those dif­fer­ences). In addi­tion, I found it inter­est­ing that Dem­b­s­ki and Edward Lar­son were basi­cal­ly agree­ing with one anoth­er on most of the points and that Stew­art did­n’t seem to pick up on it.

Redesigned PreachingToday.com is Sweet

The redesigned PreachingToday.com is real­ly nice. The new media sec­tion is espe­cial­ly good (although it’s a bit hard to find the media brows­ing page–it’s http://preachingtoday.com/media/browse.html–and there are a few glitch­es they still need to work out).

Over­all, I’m quite hap­py. I’m an annu­al sub­scriber and I’ve always got­ten far more than my mon­ey’s worth. Now it’s dou­bly true.

Happy Donuts Is The Bomb

To all my Spring­field friends, you can keep your Mud­house. I have Hap­py Donuts. Open 24/7, free wifi, and donuts. Hmmm… donuts.…

If Curt Harlow Had An Evil Twin

Paula and I were watch­ing tele­vi­sion a while back and real­ized that Jonathan Antin is the evil oppo­site of Curt Har­low. Seriously–if you know Curt watch Blow Out and pre­tend Curt was com­plete­ly wrapped up in him­self and had cho­sen to go into hair styling rather than col­lege min­istry.