Well, in 2015 I guess I have officially hit “middle age.” I guess I could have claimed this toward the end of 2013, when I got my first pair of reading glasses, but now it seems I’ve crossed the rubicon. It happened just over a week ago. I wasn’t feeling well. I’d noticed a cold…
Month: January 2015
The age of ePub
Yesterday I wrote about my fun day writing something which was terribly boring – a user documentation manual. As I wrote it led me to ponder the nature of user documentation in general. Specifically, what format it should take when it’s shared with the users. For years the go to choice has been “Portable Document Format,”…
A fun day of writing something boring
Yesterday was rather interesting. My son was home sick with the same thing that knocked me out for most of last week. He’s not as wiped out as I was 1, but we’re giving some medicine so I decided I work at home and stick with him. This gave me enough quiet space to sit…
Mighty Morphing Power Idioms
I woke up this morning, sans alarm thanks to the “blizzard” [^ donot], and fired up my Hulu queue to catch The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. As I prepared my breakfast I suddenly became aware that our culture had hit a tipping point. Idioms which have been around for decades, and so popular that…
The Narrator Speaks – Part I on the History of the Injunction War
The narrative below is taken from the lectures of Dr. Merry Andrew Dempsy, lecturer in Fictoverse History at Empty Throne University. It was given six weeks before the onset of the Injunction War. What you have to understand is this my good Elves, Wizards 1, Dwarves, and Gnomes – while we all take our position…
Returned to Gifter
This is a converted manuscript of my sermon for January 25, 2015. It’s based on Luke 17:11-19. In Luke 17:11-19 we encounter Jesus as he continued on to Jerusalem. It’s been a bit of a theme in the readings this month, by the way. Now, in this passage, Jesus passed through a village. Then, near…
