habitually probing generalist

I have been watching a couple movies during this break. Maybe I could be doing more productive things, but my mind also needs a break, time to do some leisurely processing in the background. So movies it is. I have mentioned some of them already, but would like to flesh them out with wsome mini-reviews. [...]

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The Solitary Monk You are influenced 84% of the time by Spiritual callings and 46% of the time by Religous beliefs! You have a firm understanding of the beliefs and workings of the universe. You also agree with some religous practices and traditions. You are often upset by the Occasional and tend to dislike the [...]

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[Title courtesy of CSNY] I had some wonderful discussions with my daughter today.  Issues she is having with her mother came up and, thus, we got into parenting.  Seems Mary (the ex) is sorry about some of the things we did or did not do as parents.  With Sara graduating from college soon and entering [...]

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Hehehe.  Now I’m really cracking up!  I’m about to write a post about how "The Fall of Man" led to dinosaurs becoming carnivores but first I check my stats and what do I find?  Someone found a post of mine with a misspelling of ‘apple’ so I go to fix it and what is it [...]

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You fit in with: HumanismYour ideals mostly resemble that of a Humanist. Although you do not have a lot of faith, you are devoted to making this world better, in the short time that you have to live. Humanists do not generally believe in an afterlife, and therefore, are committed to making the world a [...]

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It looks like I struck out on a ‘definitive’ (pun intended) explication of ‘confessor.’ It seems that ‘confessor’ is used for both the one confessing, as in the normal use of the -or in English, and as the one, usually a priest, to whom confession is made.  I discovered this Sunday evening when I was [...]

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I have a confession to make. I was a bad person earlier in life. My first full-time job was on a nuclear missile site in West Germany at the height of the Cold War (1978-1981).  I then spent over 20 years in the Army.  I voted straight ticket Republican for years in my own self-interest.  [...]

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Well, it seems it’s "Save the Heathen College Kids Day" again here at UIUC.  As I walked in this morning I was assaulted about every 10 feet by a gaggle of pasty, old, white men trying to hand me a mini-NKJV New Testament. Makes. Me. Want. To. Scream!  I worked long and hard to become [...]

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…that is, those the doctors fed my mother before I was born so that I had to be placed in an incubator for several days (I was born on time, just a bit too high for a newborn).  Or maybe it was the fact that they couldn’t get me to church until the eighth day—cause [...]

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