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In the August 2005 Harpers, Bill McKibben takes a look at America’s identity as a Christian country. Here’s an excerpt of an excerpt found here: The Christian Paradox
Ours is among the most spiritually homogenous rich nations on earth. Depending on which poll you look at and how the question is asked, somewhere around 85 percent of […]

Tuesday (today) I sent a trip out around the lake with a Garmin Etrex Legend to start collecting waypoints for me to use, and to come up with a narrative, NPCs, items, and puzzles for the first prototype. If all goes well, by Friday they’ll have a handwritten, and manually coded game prototype for me […]

I wish I’d had more time to get familiar with it all before the summer. But one takes what one is given sometimes, and does what one can.
A major part of the difficulty I am having with the game creation process is lack of familiarity: I’ve had Palm OS handhelds before, but never a Windows […]

It’s surprising to me that I’ve been reading as much as I have this summer. It seems that most years I’m either coming up with ideas for FML (most unrealized due to time restraints) or writing. This summer, I’ve written very few letters. I’ve been spending most of my days off working on the Augmented […]

Of course. One of the campers had Harry Potter: The Half-Blood Prince pre-ordered and sent up to him, so that the day it was released he got it (although he didn’t get it at 12:01 am that day; he had to wait until FedEx arrived). Still, it’s nice to have read it so soon after […]

Phonetic Theme Scrabble is a variation of Scrabble that allows and encourages cheating, but then it doesn’t count points either so no one cares if you win or not. Basically the way to play is to dump out about a dozen letters, and make a word or phrase from them — this […]

Some major frustrations in trying to get my iPaq connected to my iBook via PocketMac, and to Windows XP via Virtual PC. I think it may be an ActiveSync 3.7.1 issue (or at least that’s the program that I’m currently unable to get installed. It progresses to 91% and stops responding).If I get these connections made, […]

I forget how yummy the textures are. How the ginger feels on the
tongue. How the rice slides out of the way to reveal the flesh of the
sea. Good stuff tonight at Ichiban in Bangor. And hot saki. Mmm…

This year, because we have no counselors with musical ability, I’ve
been leading the “campfire” sessions — boys singing. It’s actually
pretty amazing that they sing. I know about 12 chords, and am not
very good at switching between them so it’s fairly awful to listen
to, which makes it even more amazing that they sing. Maybe they’re
just trying […]

“Are you sick of people looking at your breed of dog in fear because politicians and the media are saying things like; “We want to breed these dogs out of existence,”
“They are killing machines on a leash.”
“These breeds don’t belong in our community”
Well worry no longer, attachchi will be making disguises for all the […]

chase those rabbits; eat off all the tables you want; sleep in the bed anytime you want. Good night sweet Seymour.