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Henry Imler May 30th, 2008
Ben Affleck Harrison Ford was the bomb in Phantoms Frantic, but this clip is just plain weird.
Is the man that sexy, that we compare the loss of his chest hair to the loss of rain forest?
Update: The original vid was pulled, but now works.
Backstory for the commercial:
Henry Imler May 29th, 2008
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Henry Imler May 29th, 2008
I absolutely love crazy and/or humorous things that happen in ancient texts. I also love humorous lines written in textbooks. The best example is Dr. Anthony Alioto’s A History of Western Science, one of my favorite books of all time. Tony is able to work in his sarcastic humor in such a way that it adds to the narrative without becoming cumbersome or tired. While I am talking about Alioto, he introduced me to my favorite pithy saying of all time, which encapsulates my approach to humor - “A bad joke is better than no joke at all.” Of course, adopting this as my motto has lead to the creation of another saying: “pulling a henry.”
I love the good Dr. Alioto, but this post is not about him nor his work. It does concern itself with the exersisies found in German for Reading Knowledge. I am working though the first five chapters because I’ll be on vacation when the class starts, so I need to work ahead. While doing some exersises, I came across the following problem:
Der Geist ist willig, aber das Fleisch ist schwach. (The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.)
I think to myself, “Neat, I know that from the Bible! Isn’t that just cool?” Then I read the next line:
Der Student ist willig, aber er ist nicht sehr intelligent. (The student is willing, but he is not intellegent.)
Not quite as elegant, but very funny.
Henry Imler May 28th, 2008
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Henry Imler May 28th, 2008
I am not quite sure which it is. Take a look at this headline from ESPN:
Fines will be imposed for clear cases of flopping
Could it possibly be true? Will the Spurs ever win another game?
From the article:
NBA executive vice president of basketball operations Stu Jackson confirmed the new policy Wednesday night saying: “What was clearly expressed to the committee is that we would begin imposing fines next season for the most egregious type of flops. When players are taking a dive, for lack of a better term.”
I won’t call this an answered prayer, but it is close.
Henry Imler May 28th, 2008
As a religious studies master’s student at MU, I get two years of funding. I teach two discussion sections per semester and in return, I get a tuition waiver and a very modest stipend. For this, I am very grateful. Due to a variety of factors, both personal and professional, I am taking three years to finish my degree. Not only does it allow for a better marriage and home life, but it allows me to catch up on languages and background knowledge that I lacked because I came into my field late (middle of my second semester in grad school compared to first day of class my sophomore year in undergrad). While technically I could be done with my thesis early in the upcoming fall semester, extending into the spring and defending early in the spring would allow for a smoother defense and allow me to pick up reading French.
Give the above, I was faced with my last year without funding. After talking with the administration, they were able to get me funding for second semester next year (when I did not really need it) but not for the fall when I really needed it. I had a chance to get full funding because an opening popped up, but the program had to offer the spot to someone that had did not have funding their first year, a fair decision. Still, I counted it as a blessing.
During all of this, I had been asking my family and church to pray that something would come up. Yesterday, after having lunch with Meredith I checked my email. Apparently, enrollment in religious studies classes has skyrocketed and the administration saw fit to fund more teaching assistant spots. They offered me four sections instead of two, which means double the work and therefore double the pay.
God came through, and actually doubled what I and others were asking for. For this, I praise her! Some people may chalk this up to circumstance, luck, and my track record at the school. No doubt that some of that played a factor here, but I see a lot of these coincidences happening around my involvement in this program, coincidences that seem a little too uncanny for my taste. I reckon that God was involved somehow. There is no indisputable proof that He was, but there is proof (as in evidence) that He was.
Henry Imler May 27th, 2008
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Henry Imler May 24th, 2008
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Henry Imler May 24th, 2008
Scott, over at Grace is Unfair, is is reading through When War Is Unjust by John Howard Yoder and looking at Christians and Just War theory. Please go check out Part I (Stances towards war), Part II (Selective Objection), and Part III (Training for Peace). I have yet to see local congregations talk openly and honestly about the stance of the body of Christ to war beyond the “we support out troops” rhetoric. A discerning and nuanced stance may be there, I just have not seen it (but I have been blind plenty of times).
S4Ep12 - There’s No Place Like Home, Part One from Long Live Locke. If you are a Lostee, you need to be reading this website.
A tantalizing taste of Firefox 3: testing RC1from Ars Technica. I have suffered through the last three Firefox 3 beta releases and RC1 is the real deal. It is soooo much quicker than FF2, looks better, and now most of my favorite extensions work with the release. Download Firefox Release Candidate 1.
I put together a desk and two bookcases and sorted through a bunch of books since 1:30AM. I am not quite sure how to sort through my books. I have a section for languages I am working on and a section for thesis. After that is where it gets a bit hairy. There are philosophy, science, the study of religion, devotional scholarship, devotional books, theology, history, Christian history, ancient Christian scholarship, comics, novels, and political thought.
The problem is that most of these categories overlap. On top of all of that, I have had fantasies of going dewy decimal with my books ever since I saw my brother in law Casey’s library at his church. Anyone know of amateur ways of doing this?
With that, I may just now go to bed.
Listening to: By Babylon by Psalm from Waking up the Storm
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