Russell D. Moore asks Should We Miss Our Church Graveyards? I find the thought of being laid to rest on a church property a bit comforting. That seems “nicer” (more personal) than in some humongous cemetery, mixing with people I don’t know. I’d like to spend forever with people I’ve spent most Sundays with.
Yesterday I got a phone call on my cell, but no message was left. I googled the number, and one of the results was a page on Notifiable Diseases/Deaths in Selected Cities Weekly Information. The phone number was exactly the data in one row, in three adjacent cells. A strange coincidence.
Now that looks like a made up word. I love the chemical symbol though: Y. I bet Yttrium when it gets together with the other chemicals has an attitude. “I’m only one letter, you’re two.”
I just finished watching the first episode of the latest Survivor. That is the only TV show we watch regularly, and it’s simply scary to see how these people get mixed together, and don’t kill each other. Of course, Jeff Probst and the producers use the same formula that was used back in the early …
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I drive by the local Borders bookstore last night around 11:15pm. The line for the next Harry Potter book (Harry Potter and the Bulging Moneybags) was more than halfway down the block, with even more people walking to get in line. went by Target, but the store was closed, with the sign saying the store …
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Via Netflix, I’ve been watching CHiPs – The Complete First Season the past few weeks. Yes, Ponch and Jon are fighting crime in Southern California. I’m amazed at how far crime fighting, safety guidelines, and vehicle safety has come. I don’t think I ever saw old TV as a time capsule of society. Examples: no …
My wife and I watched the new NBC TV show Thank God You’re Here! this evening while we were waiting for the silly FBI warnings to scroll by on the DVD. The basic premise of the show is to get a well known actor to play an improvised scene with several other actors. The well …
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A day of remembrance to remember the 32 Virginia Tech students and faculty murdered on Monday.
Hokies everywhere are crying. What happened at Virginia Tech is unexplainable. But we still want someone to explain it to us.
One of the most popular sections of PlanetMike is my Jokes collection (which I have about two years of updates to add to it!). A few of the items listed in there aren’t actually jokes, but are inspirational tales, notes, or poems. One of these was titled “Christmas List.” I received it in my email …
