My Own Thoughts

A parchment from the first century BC is telling its history. The parchment’s story begins around the mid-first century B.C., when a copyist in Alexandria, Egypt, began working on a blank parchment to copy the second of 11 books by Greek geographer Artemidorus of Ephesus. “This papyrus is returning the most ancient geographic map of [...]

Jan. 27, 2006 — Archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old skeleton of a man who appears to be clutching a dagger and is posed as though he were about to thrust the weapon into something, or someone, according to a Cultural Heritage News report from Iran. The unusual burial is the first of its kind for [...]

Thomas Jefferson said, “Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.” Clayton Cramer said, “He was describing this problem–financial interest is the reason that a corporation exists, and unless those who run the corporation are remarkable people, they [...]

The day after I got an email asking for prayers for Quincy, a Marine, who had been injured by an IED and couldn’t hear and might lose his eyesight, Michelle Malkin posted on those injured by IEDs this week. Quincy wasn’t in the list. I’m not sure why. I guess it’s possible I got the [...]

Fox says the filibuster attempt failed and the vote for confirmation will be tomorrow. I am assuming, hoping, praying that Alito is confirmed. I am also, of course, pleased the filibuster failed. Frankly, the choice by a bunch of politicians to sit down and whine is as disturbing, or maybe more so, as when my [...]

The story of one woman’s flight from terrorism, 25 years after her family’s flight, is a fascinating one. A perspective you won’t see in our papers is offered in the article at Gates of Vienna.

Three armed men posing as police officers tried to make their way into a home near Memorial Park but the homeowner fought back. Police say that around 3am Monday, three men walked up to a home on Kiam near Arabelle and started banging on the front door claiming they were police officers. Someone in the [...]

I ran with R today. We went 2.1 miles. It seemed to take forever. We ran slowly. But, except for one forced stop for three steps at 28 minutes (my knee was hurting off and on and R said to stop), I ran continuously the whole time. Of course, it took us 36 minutes. Ouch. [...]

In case you read the whole opera post and wondered what the deal was with the police and our pastors, here’s the deal. They’d run into each other while out shopping and decided to eat dinner at Chili’s. While there their waitress came over and said someone was robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot. [...]

I said yesterday that we had tickets for the opera. And we did. So we got all dressed up. I wore a long satin skirt and a red glittery shirt with a leather jacket. R wore gray slacks, red shirt, and gray and red tie. We looked good. We went out to eat at Dharma [...]

JunkYardBlog has a discussion of Google’s censorship in China on such things as Jesus Christ (images only) and Christians.

Man, we thought our border guards had it bad, with armed incursions of the Mexican army. But the Canadian Border Guard have no guns and abandons their posts when bad guys are coming.

Since I realized in my last post on running (ah, so that’s what the rhetoricians mean when they say discovery writing) that I was supposed to have run 20 minutes without stopping and that in that 20 minutes I was supposed to have run two miles, I decided I would run longer today. I determined [...]

Went to Austin and visited photography friends. They discussed spiders mating in the sink. “Way too many legs.” In honor of them, the news on spiders: Scorpion trapped inside plaster mold for 15 months escapes alive. Arachnids who sleep around are more likely to have live babies. Endangered Hawaiian Wolf spider photographed being born. Not [...]

We got free tickets to opening night at the opera, so, after two shoots today, we’ll be dressing up in our finest (I thought “getting all gussied up” was too informal for a discussion of opera) and going out on the town. I enjoy opera. I don’t think R does. Okay, I’m fairly sure he [...]

While my friends were here, T took the boys to the zoo. They were by the rhinos, watching and looking. The lady next to them was obviously the one who cares for the rhinos. So she told them all the rhinos’ names. “This is Marcie…” After she named them all JP, who is 2, pointed [...]

I’m a Lamborghini Murcielago! You’re not subtle, but you don’t want to be. Fast, loud, and dramatic, you want people to notice you, and then get out of the way. In a world full of sheep, you’re a raging bull. Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz. taken because File it Under asked I [...]

She has my hair, so long and painted. She has my eyes, so blue and clear. But the rest of her is different. How did she come to be here? When I look into the mirror, looking back into the mirror, I see someone in my mirror and I wonder who she is. Does my [...]

8 grams in peanut butter 29 grams in chicken thing 80 grams in extra lean ground beef Total: 117 carbs 7 grams in pb 18 in chicken thing 10 in lettuce and green beans 10 in ice cream bar Total: 45 fat 16 in pb 14 in chicken thing 6 in meat Total: 36 calories [...]

Is 5 weeks from tomorrow. So I have five weeks to go from walk/jog 2 miles to running 3.1 miles.