Bloggernacle Frappr
Posted on October 31, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 43 Comments
There’s a Google hack that lets you see on a map where members of an online community live and work called Frappr. I’ve created one for the bloggernacle here. Mapping is at the zip code level so if you don’t mind people knowing what zip code you live and work in, give it […]
Read More..>>Standard works online in other languages?
Posted on October 29, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 3 Comments
My wife and I are the newly-called temple preparation class teachers. I like to pass out a sheet of paper with the text of the scriptures that we may refer to in class to facilitate discussion of them and so the class members have something to refer to in their personal study after the […]
Read More..>>Post-Mission Adjustment
Posted on October 29, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 24 Comments
Robert Kirby’s humor column today is about post-mission readjustment. I’ve been trying to come up with a blog post on just this subject for a while, but his article is funnier than anything thing I probably could have done, so I’ll just link to it.
In college, a couple of my roommates and I found […]
The Value of Inoculations
Posted on October 28, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 15 Comments
With all the worry about bird flu and even the upcoming regular flu season, there’s been a lot of talk about inoculations for disease. Last week we took my son to the doctor for his 12 month set of vaccines for a variety of diseases. It was hard to watch him happy, flirting […]
Read More..>>Posting anonymously
Posted on October 28, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 69 Comments
As a guestblogger at T&S last year, I helped Kaimi out with some of the technical issues the site was having. Given privileged access to the backend, I realized I had access to IP addresses of commenters. I used this information at one point to track down some fake identities being used by […]
Read More..>>A Prayerful Life
Posted on October 27, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 6 Comments
While driving home from work earlier this week, I ran over something (that something is still a mystery) and ended up with two flat tires. I, of course, followed the only rational approach in such a situation – I panicked. When I thought it was only one flat tire, I reviewed in my […]
Read More..>>Utah, flat tax and the Church
Posted on October 27, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 24 Comments
The WSJ Op-Ed page has a fascinating story today on the battle over the discussion of the flat tax in Utah. For those of you whose eyes glaze over at the discussion of taxes and economics, I promise this post will try to make that subject interesting. But this post will also discuss the […]
Read More..>>The Ethics and Morality of Humor
Posted on October 26, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 30 Comments
I have been blessed throughout my life with wonderful friends. From high school on I’ve had a group of 12 or so close friends, many of whom I’ve known since elementary school and with whom I remain close today. As with any group, a currency for success, power, and prestige within our group […]
Read More..>>Become Like God or Rely on Him
Posted on October 26, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 30 Comments
Over the last two years, my approach to the Plan of Salvation has evolved quite a bit– in large part due to the thoughts I’ve processed and discussed on LDS blogs. The summary version of my current philosophy goes like this:
Life is not a crucible– it’s a chrysalis. Rather than being simply […]
Missionaries Removed from Venezuela
Posted on October 25, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 39 Comments
As many have probably already heard, the Church has removed all of its North American missionaries from Venezuela and reassigned them to other Spanish-speaking missions (see SL Tribune article). Political tensions being what the are between the U.S. and Venezuela right now, it seems to be a reasonable action. I don’t know much […]
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