Having been in the car for close to 400 miles this weekend, I had many opportunities to observe local gas prices. The highest I saw was ARCO at $3.59 and the lowest was Chevron at $2.99. Another key observation was the gas stations a block away from that ARCO were charging $3.23 and $3.25. Hmm ( Read more... )

God's response to Job consisted of rhetorical questions underscoring His power and sovereignty. And I wondered what might be said to modern man, how else might God's power be understood with our present knowledge ( Read more... )

I want out troops to be home, but I want them to come home 'victorious'.
I want meaningful objectives that everyone can agree are achieved or not.
I want broad support under those objectives, with sufficient resources.
But I can't agree that setting a deadline achieves any of these things.

Some time back, I wrote some basic speculation about traffic waves. I learned earlier today that someone has done considerable work at the amateur level. Traffic Experiments covers this work.

By other news, I've been awake since 6 and only got home after 1 this morning.

I wish I had more time to discuss this in depth. But I was reflecting on recent product offerings, also seeing many fellow employees clamoring about compensation or what to do with bonuses, ... and rather wondered: what the big fuss is about?! It helps little that I am thinking of buying a condo, but what is the condo worth? Why is offering $ ( Read more... )

On Saturday, I went Contra dancing. Great amounts of fun were had by spinning in many many circles. And there were two interludes when I tried to waltz with miss_pea, but I was doing my own thing and risked many a collision with others on the floor. So we'd laugh and then start off again ( Read more... )

I was just writing and used the phrase "take place", then realized how odd is the phrase! For events are not being placed nor acquiring place, but are happening.

Well, not me, but Kathryn left this morning for Minnesota. So I spent some final time 'hanging out' this weekend. First a dinner invite from a elderly couple at church on Saturday. Followed by our (now) usual debates, and alas that it took so long to reach this point ( Read more... )

A day of rest. Whereby I wake up at 7am and then don't stop moving until 10pm. To start the (real) day, I joined other members of 20CF for church service at Mars Hill. After two 'contemporary' songs played by a "jazz / funk" worship band, it was on to the sermon. Sermon Download Five minutes into the sermon, we realized two things: a) it was ( Read more... )

Should STS-11^2 launch with its foam problems? I wonder this as I sit with the NASA web feed and wait. On the one hand, the shuttle launched over 100 times without a foam incident, and then there is one strike too hard and we dwell on it over and over again. How many problems are there still ( Read more... )