So I'm putting out a pretty small HT for starters, for the twelve hardcores who are looking for it. Do check back up until noon, however. I do plan to be adding. [Update: already did, before you even woke up!]
I trust all your guests got enough to eat yesterday on Thanksgiving.
- One remarkable part of my week was Rachael Starke's totally-negative review of God's Wisdom in Proverbs. If you haven't, check it out. Yow.
- And by the way, let me remind you: it's a better-than-Black-Friday deal to get the book for 50% off. That deal lasts only until the end of the month, which draweth nigh. Christmas is coming, seminary students and pastors and professors love to get books.
- (Well, what decent person doesn't?)
- Also, Eric Redmond, author of Where Are All the Brothers?, posted his endorsement of the book.
- BibChr Public Service announcement: "deals" to avoid on Black Friday. OTOH, here are some good deals of a more-or-less tech variety.
- But you can't go wrong here: today only 25% off on TeamPyro T-shirts. Srsly.
- This fishing tale beats the time I was fly-fishing for trout and caught a bat. (Thx Dawn Lewis, who also brings us...)
- Lego + pirate + animation = WIN.
- Oh dear. This poor, poor woman. Patient, or stunned beyond the ability to feel?
- Reader Curtis Sheidler notes the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Sadly, I'm afraid it isn't about remembering what they most desperately need to remember.
- Americans and others similarly-situated should give thanks for the remaining degree of freedom and rationality we (sometimes) enjoy — in light of the European Union banning water companies from advertising that water can prevent dehydration!
- I already checked: the pub date isn't 4/1/11. (Thx Reality Check)
- Fun: reader Susan found us ten Google tricks.
- She also found us this:
- Chris Carney notes that not all Washingtonians are granola-eating sissies. Take this ten-year-old who defended his mom from a drunk attacker. Great job, kid.
- Whoa, dude. Paula found a pretty fun-yet-harrowing rail ride for us.
- What should you have had for dessert after your Turducken? Why, a CherPumPle piecake, of course.
- As we approach the Christmas season, Triablogue provides a post containing links to their defense-of-the-faith Christmas-related posts.
- Reader David Regier offers cat-lovers this photo-album of kittenized covers.
- Olive Tree software is having a 25% off (mostly-)storewide sale. I really love their iPhone Bible app.
- Reader JTW also notes that Olive Tree's reader for Mac is available.
- Wait — what th...?
- I guess there is such a thing as too much coffee.
- Fred Butler found us a very diverting little interactive called Draw a Stickman.
- Here's a little photo essay comparing the (much-MSM-maligned) Tea Party with the (MSM-adored) OWS.
- Reader Michaela Ratcliffe is doing her best to get us in the Christmas mood — and what says "Christmas" better than bacon candy canes?
- By the way, wish a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our own beloved Fred Butler.
- From Squirrel: angry legobirds.
- Aw, c'mon, honey. Smile. There, that's it.
- I think one of the messages BibChr readers would like to convey to Congress is... we're watching you.
- Parting thoughts:
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Friday just isn't Friday unless it's been hither and thither.
Thanks for taking the time!!
Hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful!
What is it about "kid does awesome brave thing for Mom" stories that just gets me?
Glad to add a little negativity to all the relentless happyhappyjoyjoy of the season....
Must not get distracted by all the link goodness when Dad's taken the kids fishing, and I have precisely nine hours left to get all my Christmas shopping done...
Oh, he did? That's terrific. Where would "fishing" be, and for what, in your neck of the woods?
Um, all I heard was "I'll take the kids fishing and you can have a quiet day to prep for Christmas". For all I know, they're at Chuck E. Cheese playing videogames.....
Christmas shopping? Today? Are you out of your ever-lovin' mind? I'm avoiding the shopping maul. *shudder*
No, we're staying home doing holiday math.
Pumpkin circumference divided by pumpkin diameter equals...
Yes. It's Pumpkin Pi.
Thanks for all the linky fun!
Julie
A bat? That's some awesome casting skillz! So what happened when you discovered what latched onto the fly?
Bats .... *runningawayfast*
Thanks for H&T! It makes up for the whipped cream I forgot to buy.
Ordered your Proverbs book. We read the Proverbs to the kids and discuss probably once a year or so. Have never read any books about Proverbs, so I'm really excited to see what I get! Putting World Tilting Gospel on my wish list.
The mom whose boys floured the living room was way too calm. There was just something odd about the whole scene. Almost like it was staged. But who would do that, right? Of course I read recently that the family with the "Charlie bit my finger" video on YouTube has made over $150K in ad revenues, so I guess you never know. Not that I'm cynical or anything :)
I'm so disappointed that the Google. Several of the other ones did, though...very cool!
Turducken is so old school, Dan's readers deserve-crave-demand TurBaconDucken!
Mrs Squirrel & I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
Squirrel
Sonja, I can still see it vividly in my mind's eye, though the memory is literally probably 40+ years old. I was out in a boat on a lake at late dusk. Fishing with dry flies, I'd laid down my cast, and was visually following the line to the end to see where the fly rested, so I could set the hook on any strike. Out, the line went on the lake's surface... out, out... then up! Huh?
And there at the end was this bat fluttering, like a dirty handkerchief in the wind.
"No," I said. "No, nonononono..." and began wiggling the rod.
Thankfully, it let go before I'd reeled in.
That Rachael Starke...sooo negative!
Happy Birthday Fred Butler! Best wishes.
It's a good thing Dan is mentioning Kress, because, you know, Challies isn't. He didn't even include Kress in his list of Black Friday publishers.
Hunh, odd. Anyone ask him why not, over there?
He's updating. So I shouldn't jump to conclusions. Besides, I made mention-over there.
Thanks. Let me know if you notice anything.
Oh...oh...am I one of the twelve? Looks like the ladies are outnumbering the men, too?
The downhill racer is a brave man. He zoomed past those signs "I wonder what the signs say?" I was wondering that too. Didn't look like there was much holding the folks on those lil things.
Flour kids, oh my, what a mess. Loved the happy ending to the fishing tale, too. Might be a small H&T, but still chockfull-o-goodness- thank you!
Before I forget, I'm a little more than halfway through GWIP. It's really good, not a fast read (at least I'm not), lots of food for thought, and one of those books I'll definitely be reading more than once.
Thanks! And thanks for buying and reading, glad it's being helpful. And yeah, it's definitely not the same experience as reading TWTG.
Maybe future generations of profs will use the two very different books, released the same year and written by the same author, to explode liberals who say Paul "could not have written" this or that epistle, because they different from epistles they think he did write.
Or, you know, maybe not.
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Dan, I can see how that image would be forever etched in your brain! Bats are fascinating creatures with the echolocation thing and massive bug eating capacity. But they sure are creepy. *shiver*
I've seen grown men scream like little girls. :)
One of the best fishing stories evah!
Not that I am at all above the occasional yelp, my recollection is that it was more of a slack-jawed stream of murmur: nononononono... getoff getoff getoff getoff...
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Re: Kitten Covers
I guess Cat Stevens would have been too easy. Although I did notice that one of my relatively obscure favorites, Kate Bush, was parodied.
Bats are beyond creepy; it makes me wonder why God allows circumstances to happen that I'm sure He knows will give you a strong aversion to one of his (unfortunate) creations (like being pee'd on, for instance).
Fishing, on the other hand, sounds lovely right now.
Fishing deers--cool.
Fishing bats--ewwww. (What can I say? They're flying rodents.)
And I just looooove that last Newt/Mitt cartoon. That Agatha Christie novel is just one of my all-time favorites! ("Didn't you die in chapter 1?" Haha!) :D
I can't say I've ever caught a bat fishing, but I did shoot one out of the sky with a bottle rocket once. It was amazing.
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