I Once Was Deaf but Now I Hear
I watched the video above (can’t remember whom to HT!), and I know this is old news for many already… I noticed that the woman’s speech did not sound like that of profoundly deaf people I’d heard; it was quite clear. I did not detect any accent or slurring at all. And she responded to the first sentence she’d ever heard, even though because of her tears she wasn’t watching the lips of the speaker. So I was a little suspicious and did some investigation. I wound up at her blog, and her...
How to Kern
My inner typography nerd was thrilled to discover this very cool website. If you don't know what kerning is or why it matters, check it out. If you do, see if you can beat my top score of 91… HT: Drew Fields
Toggl
Toggl is the first new “app” I’ve added to my daily workflow in a long time, and I want to give it a little plug. My workplace requires me to log my time so that they know how much money they’re spending on various projects. I found a great way to do that with Toggl. I leave it open in Safari (unfortunately it does seem to cause Firefox to crash every couple days) on my external monitor. It looks like this: Each line is a task I’ve spent time on, and each one of these tasks is connected to a...
Review: A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens My rating: 4 of 5 stars Dickens' deep insight in this book is not what I would call "Christian" (though it is consistent with Christianity) but "human." He sees quite clearly what anyone with eyes should be able to see, whether they have the Bible or not: that sin sometimes twists its victims into victimizers, that vengeance sometimes takes on a momentum carrying it far beyond justice. But there was one truly Christian insight in the book, the believable...
Blog Drought
Interesting. Over the course of four years, this blog has rarely dried up for very long. Why did it do so in the last week? Apparently, I have finite writing energies, and those energies are finally being put to use. Even my dissertation failed to spend them all! But now I’m writing a new textbook for the BJU Press Bible Truths series. It’s called “The Story of the Old Testament,” and it means putting a lot of my rhetoric over the last several years to the test. Can junior-highers understand...