Monday, May 28, 2007

Summer Plans

O.K. People. It is time to get our plan making hienies in gear.

Josh and Jannell, are you guys thinking about going back to Michigan this summer?

Mom and Dad and Abby and Elise, you guys are going to try to make a trip out here sometime, right?

Matt, yes, you want to fly out there and see everyone.

Ready.....PLAN

Saturday, May 26, 2007

Monday, May 21, 2007

Firefox Tips

Here are some great Firefox tips.






***UPDATE***
One of my favs is Space-Bar = Page Down

Ranger Josh (Harrison)

Lt. Harrison arrives in Afghanistan today, I believe, and, according to John, this WSJ article focuses on his destination and the work he will be involved in. You simply must read the article because it is incredible. What makes it even more unbelievable is that there already is a Lt. Harrison assigned there:
First Lt. Michael Harrison, a platoon leader in the battalion's Dog Company, studied law and nuclear engineering at West Point, where he was a minor troublemaker, doing punishment marches for such offenses as keeping a rice cooker in his room. But along the Pech River, the 25-year-old has a fan club of neighborhood urchins -- a counterweight to insurgent propaganda that, the military says, claims the Americans are here to convert Muslims to Christianity and eat their children.

When the lieutenant approaches Patrol Base California, he lowers the bullet-proof window on his Humvee, reaches out and slaps high-fives with the children. "Michael!" they shout as he passes, mimicking his two-finger peace sign.

"Whassup, Hussein? Haircut!" Lt. Harrison says to a close-shaved orphan boy in a dirty-white jersey and loose trousers. He gives a set of baby bottles to a boy whose sister died after giving birth.

When he isn't patrolling, the lieutenant spends much of his time sounding out the locals, listening to their troubles and trying to arrange solutions.

Pretty amazing stuff. You've got to read the whole thing.

I'm sure that Josh would appreciate our prayers, that God would use him to spread the love of Christ in this part of the world.

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Hamster-powered Paper Shredder

Way cool!

Edwards

Dad, that picture of Edwards kinda looks like you when he's got the short hair.

Its creeping me out.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Spatula Mundani

In a WSJ article on the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, the early English settlement, author Mark Yost makes a reference that makes me sit up and take notice, literally. The Jamestown museum houses an invention by a local surgeon, James Woodall, called the Spatula Mundani.

"It was a long metal rod with a flat scooper at one end and a sharp probe at the other, Yost explains." What was this surgical invention for, you ask? I'll tell you. In Dr. Woodall's own words, it was to treat "severe constipation," a disease that "killeth many."












A scooper?
No WAY!

File under "DUH!"

This from the Glenn Falls, NY, PostStar:
A man was hospitalized Saturday after he accidentally discharged a round of ammunition into his abdomen...Damion M. Mosher, 18, had been discharging .223-caliber rounds by placing them in a steel vice, putting a screwdriver on the primer, and striking the screwdriver with a hammer, police said...Police said Mosher told them he was trying to empty the rounds so he could return the brass casings for scrap.




thanks to Ace for the link

A reverberating **SMACK** was heard...

Perhaps you've heard that the famous Oscar-winning film-maker Michael Moore has challenged Republican presidential non-candidate Fred Thompson to a debate. Watch Fred smack Moore...




thanks to HH for the video

Tuesday, May 15, 2007