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Book reviews 2/28

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Dark Night of the Soul (St. John of the Cross)

This was a very difficult book to make it through, partially because the original was written by St. John in the 1500s, but mostly because the…

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Movies 2/15-2/22

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Burn After Reading (2008)

If you like dark comedies, this movie is for you.  I couldn’t stop laughing during the final scene of the movie, and on through another minute of credits.  What a payoff.  If you have a hard…

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Purgatory – an engineer’s perspective

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

T has been reading The Diary of St. Faustina for the past couple weeks after some discussions with her cousin, and we’ve been chatting about several passages from the book.  The big discussion point right now has…

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Ok… that’s it… PC has gone too far

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

I have finally hit my breaking point.  Political correctness has made the final blow.  One of my favorite websites on the planet, www.jumptheshark.com, is dead.  Well, not exactly dead… it has also now “Jumped the Shark.”  If you…

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Movies 2/8-2/15

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Incredible Hulk (2008)

There were some really fun action sequences in this movie, but ultimately it just wasn’t good enough to pull more than 3 stars out of me.  I was staying away from the Hulk movies for a while…

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And I thought the coins were silly…

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

I don’t really have the words for this latest in Obama fanaticism.  You have to see it for yourself.

 

http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2009/02/13/borders-bookstore-in-dallas-praises-saint-obama/

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Obama coins?!

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Are you kidding me?  Seriously, are you kidding me?!  I know this is an historic event of some sort (regardless of which side you are on), but really… this is just plain silly.

 

President Obama Coin Collection

 

I much…

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Book reviews 2/9

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Lords of Light (Deepak Chopra, Martin Greenberg)

This book and the one below were loaned to me by T’s cousin, Rae Marie.  I don’t believe she’s read them yet, so I won’t give much away here.  I did enjoy both…

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Movies 1/25-2/8

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004)

The first movie in the series was pretty fun, even though it didn’t do a very good job of following the book.  When I saw there were two follow-on movies, I figured…

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“How Great…”

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

“…is our God… sing with me, how great… is our God.”  T, J and I hit the Chris Tomlin concert in Cedar Rapids last night (yes, I am not posting in chronological order tonight… just deal…

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