7 Quick Takes, Take 6
Nice graphical link to Conversion Diary that I can’t get working for some reason.
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I tend to read multiple books in parallel (which is sometimes a euphemism for “starting one book and abandoning it halfway through when I decide to pick up something else, nevermore returning to its pages”, but I try to finish everything I start unless it’s pretty bad). Books I’m currently reading include:
- The Birth of the Messiah by Raymond Brown. My Advent reading from 2007, still unfinished (but nearly!)
- Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI. Excellent, excellent.
- 50 Great Ghost Stories. A misleading title if ever there was one. Might not get to the end of this.
- Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass.
- The Way to the Dwelling of Light by Guy Consolmagno, S.J.
- Desire of the Everlasting Hills by Thomas Cahill
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I have a weird love of classifying, categorizing, and sorting things. Entering metadata for a big batch of records is actually fun for me. (There’s probably a name for this.) That’s why I have all my books carefully cataloged and annotated in not one, but two, computer-based systems. That’s why I’ll probably spend hours happily entering place and face information for the several thousand photos I have in Apple’s new iPhoto ‘09. And that’s why I really do plan to scan in and organize all the thousands of print photos I still have sitting in boxes. Someday, someday.
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I’m going to spend the upcoming weekend acting as a chauffeur for an expedition of Indonesian students attending a conference. Is that how I pictured my life a year ago? Not even close!
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Music I’m listening to as I type this line: “Madame de Pompadour” from the Doctor Who Series 1 & 2 soundtrack CD. Murray Gold rules.
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This is a perplexing and bizarre phenomemon in my life: I have never been able to find a pair of khaki pants that meets my rather minimal expectations for daily legwear. Frankly, I don’t understand it; everyone has khaki pants. But the source of all these simple, magnificent slacks has always eluded me.
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A friend just surprised me with an unexpected thank-you gift. And it’s quite tasty!
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The ice shelf that has formed on Cayuga Lake over the past month extends much further out into the water than it has for several years. It’s a bit of a shame to think that the weather is going to warm up and undo some of that nice work over the next few days!
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