Originally published on January 31st, 2007 at Onward & Upward Lydia at Renewed Day by Day has put up a meme of 10 quirky facts about your state. Beth answered it in the previous post about her adopted state of Texas. Now, I love memes so I immediately knew I wanted to be a part of this one. However, I saw that Lydia tagged Susan to do one for Georgia, and I didn’t want to take the wind out of…
Just a few more hours before I leave work and pick up Paul, and go to INDIANA! Hooray! I’m so excited. I am also dead tired because I had to take Paul to the train station this morning. :-p Last night we took Jera over to the house where she will be staying while we’re gone. I was so sad to leave her there! This is what parents must feel like when they leave their kids at Grandma’s. :-) I…
Happy Flag Day, y’all! :-) Today marks the 230th birthday of our nation’s flag! “On June 14, 1777, in order to establish an official flag for the new nation, the Continental Congress passed the first Flag Act: ‘Resolved, That the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.’” The flag of our country has stood for a lot over…
My parents put forth an interesting question on their blog. How would you approach Bible translation? Here is a snippet: In over 60 years of translation work, SIL has sought to turn out the most accurate translation possible for the indigenous peoples of the world, keeping in mind the culture, the readability and flow of the text. Consequently, it has taken many years to translate the Scriptures in most cases. But is this the best approach? One of the partner…
Paul was telling me yesterday about a CNN segment about things that have faded out of use in our culture as technology and styles change. It was more talking about recent things – things in our lifetime. Here were some of the things they brought up: Beta and VHS tapes (although Paul argues that Beta are used extensively in TV – I know when our company does commercials, we have to send them to a TV station on Beta tapes)…