Given that there will be a lot of people doing a lot of driving this holiday season, I felt some caution was in order. Today’s post is a Public Service Announcement:
Adverb-Man says:
Please Drive Safe
No, I am not cautioning you about your driving. I am cautioning you to make sure that you add -ly to words that modify verbs. Beware the poorly-written signs and announcements this Christmastime.
I don’t want to drive a safe – I want to drive my car.
And I want to do it safely.
Now the LORD was with Judah, and they took possession of the hill country; but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley because they had iron chariots.
Judges 1:19
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Proposed Rule Changes for the NFL
- Calling a timeout just before a field goal attempt will cost the team 5 yards. No one likes the attempts to ice the kicker. If you try to ice the other team’s kicker, you will make his attempt easier.
- A player who causes an injury via foul play are suspended for as long as the injured player is out. Players can be injured on accident, but those are not subject to this rule. For this rule, if you are flagged for a personal foul and the other player is injured, you can’t play again until he does. If that is a play or two, or a few games, you are done for that time. Play nicely.
- Celebrations are allowed only on first downs or scores for offense or turnovers or tackles for loss or stops on 3rd down for defense. Any other instances will be flagged for excessive celebration. You need to accomplish something in order to celebrate it.
- Centers will be held to the same standards as everyone else regarding false starts. No more jerking around and pointing after you are in position. Do not turn into the NBA, where travelling is allowed as long as you dunk. Let the quarterback call the audibles – you stay still until the snap.
Noticeably absent from this list is a modification to the Coach’s Challenge System (CCS, remarkably close to the equally popular (meaning, not popular at all) BCS). Plenty of other people are calling for an overhaul of the challenge/review system, so I’ll let them worry about that.
If a man injures his neighbor, just as he has done, so it shall be done to him:
Leviticus 24:19
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It’s December, the start of the winter quarter. Time for me to update the theme on this blog.
As is usual, it’s not much of a new theme – all I did was replace the images.
This theme is a tribute to the NHL, which stands for either No Hockey League or National Hockey Lock-out
Anyway, here’s a slightly new look. Expect some tweaks in the days to come.
From the breath of God ice is made, And the expanse of the waters is frozen.
Job 37:10
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A little bit late, but it’s appropriate for today, the one-week anniversary of the Lions’ being denied a review of the Houston touchdown that should not have been.
Transcript:
The scene: Forsett Middle School, in the cafeteria
Refs: Hmm… Which lunch table?
Ref: I think we should sit over there
Jim Schwartz: I, too, think you should sit there.
Ref: Just because you said so, we are not going to do that
Jim Schwartz: Come on, guys!
Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; State a proposal, but it will not stand, For God is with us.
Isaiah 8:10
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Quick Quiz:
Of what is this a picture?
If you said “a desktop computer from around 2004” you are correct.
If you said “not a Mac” you are also correct.
If you said “Some Guy’s computer” you are also correct.
Thursday night, after all the non-festivities of the day, my wife started the computer but the screen was misbehaving. The picture was choppy and repeated and pixels were not where they should have been. I shut it off and figured I’d look at it the next day.
The next day, there was no picture at all. The monitor told us “No Signal”.
So I replaced the video card. I went from this:
to this:
No, I did not mix up those photos. The desktop computer had a fancy graphics card. I had to add the cooling system (heat sinks! heat-transfer tubes! a fan!) after the card kept resetting during Command & Conquer. That was years ago.
On Saturday, I pulled a video card out of one of my previous computers and plopped that one in the current desktop. Other than having to grab a VGA cable because the old card doesn’t support DVI, I had no problems.
Here’s how the cards compare:
I can’t run CnC anymore, but at least I know what I want for Christmas now.
For the Lord God of hosts has a day of panic, subjugation and confusion
In the valley of vision,
A breaking down of walls
And a crying to the mountain.
Isaiah 22:5
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What did I have for Thanksgiving?
Gatorade.
That’s all my body would take. Two of my sons and I spent Thanksgiving recovering from flu-like symptoms. As far as flu-like symptoms go, it wasn’t too bad in that in each case it lasted for about 18 hours.
From Wednesday night to Thursday afternoon, Alpha and Gamma were eating normally and everyone else was avoiding food. My wife was fine – not sick at all – but she was trying some preventive maintenance by keeping her stomach as empty as possible.
So we missed the big Thanksgiving gathering with my side of the family. We figured people would rather have us not there than have us there but get sick the next day or so.
The main downside to that whole fiasco was the rolls.
For my side of the family, there are about 30 people at Thanksgiving. We were responsible for bringing the rolls for the meal, so we allowed for about 2 rolls per person. My wife made 70 rolls on Wednesday afternoon, a mere hour or so before the first kid went down.
We didn’t go to Thanksgiving so we couldn’t take the rolls.
We couldn’t send them with anyone.
And even if we had, who would want rolls from a sick house?
So if any of you want rolls, let us know – we have a bunch in the freezer right now waiting for a good home.
in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 5:18
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I watched the Sunday night football game of the Pittsburgh Steelers versus the Baltimore Ravens. I am not a Steelers fan, so I don’t know when or how they choose to wear their regular uniforms or their striped uniforms. But I do know this: those striped uniforms are distracting.
Here is what most of America saw that night – views like this:
But here is what I saw:
Whenever they wear those uniforms, I will call them the Pittsburgh Bumblebees.
In that day the LORD will whistle for the fly that is in the remotest part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
Isaiah 7:18
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This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
