Seems like the last couple of posts, besides the wonderful picture of Coach Dawson, have been annoyances. Well, yet again, I was confronted by one this afternoon. After forgetting to upgrade my wife’s phone of two years, I finally called Sprint this afternoon to take … Read More →
Category Archives: soapbox
An Annoyance
You know those news websites that are free, but still require you to register? Yeah, they are annoying. Sure you can do things to get around it, such as install Firefox and the BugMeNot plugin, but seriously, if you are going to make it free, … Read More →
Cry Me a River
First off, let me apologize for the title of this post. I was going to put something like “Playing the Smallest Violin Ever” or “Slade’s Pity-party Post,” but they didn’t quite capture the mood, so I made an obscure reference to a Justin Timberlake song. … Read More →
95 Theses, Inbox Spam, and New Bloggers!
It was brought to my attention this weekend that I have not blogged in a while, so hopefully I can make up for it today. Much to the surprise of some people, I actually do have to do some work while at work, and cannot … Read More →
Is this Post too Long?
I did it! I finished a complete book! If you remember from a previous post that I have just been starting books lately and not finishing them, I made a resolution to correct this. So last night I sat down and finished up the last 47 pages of Exodus. I must say that it was worth it.
The author presents first a look at Episcopalians, dedicating one chapter to the more liberal views of mainline Episcopalian churches, then using the second chapter to discuss what the titles "The Departing Episcopalians."
Business Schools, Seminary, and CS
Albert Mohler posted an interesting commentary today about today’s business schools and their practice of hiring professors that are more concerned with research than actually teaching practical knowledge that will help business students in the real world. “Practitioners in the field…are not likely to be … Read More →
The Nerve…
I just remembered that I came up with a “great” idea for a post tonight while Laura and I were eating supper. Ok, so maybe not really a great idea, but something to keep me in the blogging mode. With technology like it is, there … Read More →