Glen Davis

“I feel like Moses in a room full of water.” This guy cracks me up. Inci­den­tal­ly, the point he makes is very legit. Read The Halo Effect by Phil Rosen­zweig to learn more.

Scott Adams Blog: Management/Success/Leadership: Most­ly Bull­shit 03/12/2013

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I can’t decide whether I like pan­el two or pan­el three bet­ter. Basic Instruc­tions deliv­ers again.

Basic Instruc­tions — Basic Instruc­tions — How to Accept Your Lim­i­ta­tions

Thanks again for using my Ama­zon Affil­i­ate links ( US , UK , Cana­da ).

This is a real­ly beau­ti­ful video.

Home­less Guy vs Mag­ic Trick — Epic Win

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What an inter­est­ing idea. I like Piper’s ques­tion — espe­cial­ly how he would hope to start by lis­ten­ing. Note that this is from 2009 and is in no way relat­ed to cur­rent events (except that my inter­est in cur­rent events is what prompt­ed me to share it).

If You Had Two Min­utes to Talk With the Pope, What Would You Say to Him?

John Piper says he would talk to the pope about jus­ti­fi­ca­tion.

I have said sim­i­lar things before (both to stu­dents and to young moms). Deal­ing with young kids is tough.

An Encour­ag­ing Word for Moth­ers of Young Chil­dren

Mar­tyn Lloyd-Jones once spoke with a group of med­ical stu­dents who com­plained that in the midst of their train­ing and the fero­cious work hours they real­ly didn’t even have time to read the Bible an.…..

Wow — I did­n’t real­ize he was so dom­i­nant.
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Church­es around the world used 128 songs he wrote or co-wrote last year, Rachin­s­ki said. CCLI esti­mates that every Sun­day in the Unit­ed States, between 60,000 and 120,000 church­es are singing Tomlin’s songs. By extrap­o­lat­ing that data, Rachin­s­ki says, “our best guess would be in the Unit­ed States on any giv­en Sun­day, 20 to 30 mil­lion peo­ple would be singing Chris Tom­lin’s songs.”

Chris Tom­lin, king of the sing-along

By Eric Mar­rapo­di and Tom Fore­man, CNN Bal­ti­more (CNN) — The capac­i­ty crowd at the 1st Mariner Are­na in Bal­ti­more is bounc­ing in uni­son to the most wide­ly sung music on the plan­et today. The ca…

What an inter­est­ing way to think about writ­ing short sto­ries.

Reflec­tions on Roger Zelazny

I had a good day pound­ing away at Hawk, and then learned that my short sto­ry, “Play­ing God” has sold to this anthol­o­gy. So, I’m feel­ing pret­ty good, and I’m think­ing about Roger Zelazny, and I’m r.…..

File under “things you did not expect to learn about today” — Between 2002 and 2010, an esti­mat­ed 17 616 patients pre­sent­ed to US EDs with trouser zip injuries to the gen­i­tals. The penis was almost always the only gen­i­tal organ involved. Zip injuries rep­re­sent­ed near­ly one-fifth of all penile injuries. 

Zip-relat­ed gen­i­tal injury. [BJU Int. 2013] — PubMed — NCBI

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Sad­ly, few of the peo­ple who most need to hear this will intu­itive­ly grasp that it is about them.

Dil­bert com­ic strip for 03/19/2013 from the offi­cial Dil­bert com­ic strips archive.

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