In honor of sara helen watermellon. Not in honor really, but I saw it on her blog (featuring her cute new haircut and return to blonde)

Your Seduction Style: Prized Object

The seduction game you play is tried, true, and still effective: hard to get. You know that the best seducers turn the tables - and get their crush to seduce them. The one running has the power, and you're a challenge that is worth the chase. You are a master of enticing and pulling back. Giving a little and taking some away. You are controlled enough to know rewards come after a long seduction dance. Even though you want to call, email, or say "I love you" first - you don't! You're style is the perfect mix of hot and cold - so much so that you have many suitors. Think Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany's ... or any of those creepy guys from the Bachelor. You're skilled at inspiring a chase. The real test is picking the person to slow down for.

What Kind of Seducer Are You?

I'm not sure I agree with it, but there you are. Perhaps this explains why I am sans girlfriend

A New Post

I am now going to update the blog. Fair warning, it will be spotty posting for a while. Now that I am no longer at school I don’t have regular internet access. I don’t want to do to much at work other than check email, and I feel guilty about stealing from the people who live around me and haven’t realized they are sharing their service with the world.

On top of that my computer seems to be having some trouble with wireless. I haven’t figured out if it is the wireless card or the browser, but something keeps crashing my computer. I thought I had fixed the problem, but apparently not.

ON WITH THE BLOG!!



OK, for all of you that loved the monkey once, only to berate me for leaving it up for your enjoyment…..
What you see here is an image of Jubilaem, or liquid courage. It is a bottle of akvavit that helped steel my nerves for the thesis presentation. Don’t tell, but I broke the no drinking before noon policy. Its not my fault they scheduled me to present at 9am.

The presentation went great, except I started with an old version of the power point and didn’t notice until several slides in when the screen went black except for the words “insert image here.” Fortunately I was able to switch over to the correct version and keep rolling. The feedback was good, and I received several comments from professors later who had heard about it. All and all a great experience. Now I’m just waiting for a little slip of paper to come in the mail, telling me its all official.

This was the first hit on a google image search for bizzare. I recomend the safe search for anyone a bit squeemish..think Clerks, "I rented it for us!"


Basically I've been bored and upset that some of your posts haven't been updated for a day or two, then I realized mine was almost a week old. So enjoy the monkey!

The time has come the walrus said...

So this is it, this little half sheet of purple paper is what I have spent the last three years working towards. Or at least this little sheet will get me the fancy velum with a seal and that jazz, but this one feels like more of a victory. Now all that remains is to give a presentation and answer a few questions (June 7th 9AM) and I will be finished!!!

Bibliodessey

So I've been meaning to spread the word about this cool site that I frequent. It is a treasure trove of images, crazy random stuff, most of it historical but not always. I highly recomend it.

BibliOdyssey

Ten Things I Hate About Commandments

Ten things I hate about commandments

scripture help

Ok seminarians, I need a bit of help.

I am looking for a scriptural basis for the following quotes:


"For there is no action so slight, nor so mean, but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled therefore; nor is any purpose so great but that slight actions may help it, and may be so done as to help it much, most especially that chief of all purposes, the pleasing of God."

"We treat God with irreverence by banishing Him from our thoughts, not be refering to his will on slight occasions. His is not the finite authority or intelligence which cannot be troubled with small things. There is nothing so small that we may not honour God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands."


They are both by John Ruskin, presented in the introduction of The Seven Lamps of Architecture to defend his application of moral/ biblical principles to architecture. I was thinking of Matthew 25:40 "...whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me," but that is not quite right, and I feel I would be taking the verse out of context if I used it.

So any suggestions?

Horray!!

Just a quick post to celebrate the fact that the first draft of my thesis is officially finished. Of course there will be a lot of revision over the next couple weeks, but this was a big milestone, and I made it on schedule. Tomorrow I meet with my comittee to discuss the revisions, but tonight I crash on the couch with a movie, a glass of wine, and a plate of nachos.


I'm not sure why I've had a craving for nachos all day, but there it is.

Colbert Speech

I'm sure most of you have heard about this already, but here it is again. It takes about 20 minutes, and I would recomend letting it download at least partially before viewing.

The direct link is http://www.dailymotion.com/sensemilia/video/143459

Question

This question is mainly for Ed, and Tom if he still swings by my blog.

What is the accuracy of the definition of Ethos (ἦθος) as place of living and Ethics (ἠθικός) as theory of living. Do I even have the Greek correct? According to Wikipedia they have the same root. A book that I am arguing with in my thesis claims that ethos is the root of ethics, and therefore limits the ethical function of architecture to the representation of ethos. I disagree, and I would like to start by critiquing the language.