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Posts from June 2005

BeagleBlogging: The Insatiable Beagle

Dinnertime hasn’t been the same since the Beagle entered our lives. It is a well-known fact that these creatures (genus species proboscis insatiabalious) are eating machines. It’s not just that they’ll eat anything; they’ll eat as much of anything as they can find, no matter how disgusting, sick or depraved, and then ask for [...]


Lewis

From CS Lewis:

You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

And this:

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

The dude could write. Beauty fades, cleverness wanes, but eloquence lasts [...]


A Walk from Conference Room to Cube

Yesterday, on the way back from a meeting, padding softly through the sepulchral hush of late-afternoon office corridors, Jasper and I discussed the nature of happiness.

“My ass is killing me,” I said.

“You have a homicidal ass,” agreed Jasper. “But, then again, I’d want to kill you too if you sat on me all day.”

“Yeah, but [...]


Running Out

I think I’ve run out of outrage.

Nowadays, whenever I read about some inexpressibly horrible thing that the Bush administration wants to do, or has done, or is about to do, I’ll shake my head, make unhappy noises, maybe even murmer a couple of shopworn lamentations … but that’s it. I don’t call my congressman, or [...]