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Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Church report

Dad — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 14:50:00 -0000

Wow! This is good news. I really had no idea what to expect with the diversity (both in worship style and exegesis)that exists in the present PCA. The "no Sunday evening service" will give you a chance to probably do some of the campus Sunday evening stuff, maybe some of the parachurch groups (Campus Crusade, BYU (or whatever they call it..., etc.)

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Out of Shape!

Dad — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:35:59 -0000

Peddling over to Academy Sports might be the solution to adjusting the handlebars.... Saves buying wrenches!

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Connections

Dad — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:17:32 -0000

What a great "connection" to have one of your professors at church! Connections usually make more connections. He can be useful navigating through other places/courses/etc at Baylor. Any news on an RUF or something that meets on Sunday evening?

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Donne Donne Donne

Dad — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:20:12 -0000

I guess every student has a class once in awhile that elicits, "Why am I doing THIS??". I had a few (12 hours of "humanities" or I couldn't graduate...) (Logic, Psychology, World Geography (actually pretty interesting)). Maybe it is "Poetry" that makes one "well-rounded", or "builds character" or something.....

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Written on Wednesday the 6th (password - my church’s first pastor)

Dad — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:21:58 -0000

Don't forget to re-read this one in the middle of studying for the Poetry class!

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Picspam!

Dad — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:02:47 -0000

Food, buildings, and bridges! What more could ANYBODY want. I see a career emerging: Photographer for Bon Appetit!

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Annoyances

Dad — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:14:59 -0000

Yes, I can comment on the ROACHES! But they are not as big in Waco as they are in/near Houston. I interviewed for a job at the Manned Spacecraft Center in 1967, rented a car so I could scope out the area a bit to see where we might live if we moved there, and was driving near Seabrook, TX (just southeast of the MSC a few miles) looking for apartments. Had to stop three times to let the ROACHES cross the road. Like you do for deer in other parts of civilization.

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Las cucarachas

Dad — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:38:02 -0000

At least you are still dealing with the kind that you can hit with Black Flag. The ones I had to stop for at Seabrook you would need to call the local animal control to come to trap and relocate. You would be able to move them in the cages that they use for elephants in the circus.

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Howards End

Dad — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:44:50 -0000

Guess who just bought Howards End? Yep, got it for Mom on Friday at BN. She is just starting it. BN republished it as one of its "Classics" series, so it has lots of forwards, introductions, etc. From all the review stuff with it, she should really like it.

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Eeeeee! (password - my church’s first pastor)

Dad — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:43:54 -0000

I'll just admit right off that I am not independent not to need validation. Maybe somebody is, but reinforcement from others is usually what keeps me going. And negative reinforcement can be devastating....

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Water Ick

Dad — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:45:46 -0000

I have no idea what is supposed to help the water, but something must.... I agree that the water was not good. Must be coming straight from the Brazos.

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Courtesy of the Honors College :)

Dad — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:06:59 -0000

1424, huh? We will plan on it! Maybe it needs a "restaurant review" in the local paper. Glad you had a great time.

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Library Appreciation

Dad — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:02:31 -0000

To "But what in the world did people do in towns like Waco before Netflix was invented??, Mom says they played tiddly-winks.

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Failure

Dad — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:57:32 -0000

Sounds like you have it figured out now!

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Random House Associates

Dad — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:17:46 -0000

That looks like a neat program. Like a well managed internship. How did you find the site?

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » I just met Azar Nafisi!!

Dad — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:20:23 -0000

Wow! I remember how much you enjoyed her book, and how much Mom did to when she read it. Glad you got to see her in person! What a neat experience.

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » I pwn The Rich List

Dad — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:53:26 -0000

Had to do a Google search on "pwn" to fully understand the post, but we are good now! Yeah, you were always good at lists. So, how do you get on the show????

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » New look

Dad — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:56:09 -0000

And this layout is supposed to be better? No way!

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » American Idol 6×03: Memphis Auditions

Dad — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:13:48 -0000

Can you believe that even I watch about 3 of these (the very first, then near the end) as we were getting ready to see the State of the Union.... Yeah, Timika was pretty out of it. Is there no screening before they are ushered in before the judges?

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Blogs and 18th Century Periodicals

Dad — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:26:45 -0000

Dear Editor:
Knowing NOTHING about 18th century periodicals, and not much about blogging, other than reading some from time to time, I find that comparison interesting, and right on. I confess to have spent 2 1/2 hours in the early AM this morning to reading a technical blog (a large part of that was listening to 1 1/2 hours of podcast on the upcoming problem of all the Calendering systems that must be patched to deal with our legislature's changing the Daylight Saving Time by 3 weeks this spring, and 1 week this fall, and why you will not know when the meeting is for three weeks, and if you don't fix it right, you will not know after that either....

Bottom line of this: Yes, it was like a magazine article, good content, timely, important, and in the case of the blog, very current (didn't have to wait for the presses to run....).

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Spam compliments

Dad — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:35:24 -0000

Funny! I had no idea that there were web crawlers that just went around commenting on web sites they found. I understood spam to be unsolicited email to email addresses, but not in relationship to having a site up. Your responses are funny! (I know, I should have addressed this to "Webmaster".)

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » PDF rant

Dad — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:46:19 -0000

I got a PDF at work of some forms that I wanted to not have to rekey, but could not get them out of the PDF. A guy in the next cube had REAL Acrobat, and he was able to open the document and save it as a Word doc, so I could copy and edit it. Saved hours. I think you need the REAL Acrobat. Bobber's idea of the student discount rings nice as well. Pastor J also has a bunch of experience with PDF's and I would guess that he doesn't want to print them off either.....

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Our justice system at work…

Dad — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:34:38 -0000

This reminds me our justice system at work when it convicted a couple of border agents that had stopped an illegal alien and when the alien started to run, they shot him (don't know if they killed him or not, but may have), and each the two Border agents got about 10-12 years in prison. You can imagine the effect that has on them as well as the rest of the border patrol. "Illegal alien? Let him go, I don't want to go to jail for doing my job..."

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » New Layout

Dad — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:20:13 -0000

I agree with Mark. The new layout is MUCH better. !!

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » So You Think You Can Dance Top 20

Dad — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:08:44 -0000

Well, I can see the lawyers have gotten into it. A BUNCH of the YouTube clips have now been taken down due to "Copyright claim from Dick Clark Productions, Inc.". And I was actually going to watch some of them.....

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » So You Think You Can Dance Top 20

Dad — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:19:05 -0000

Done! Thanks for getting Photobucket. So how long before the lawyers find that? Hee.

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » School, Southern Lit, and Rhetoric

Dad — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:39:13 -0000

Glad to see you really did get into a couple of courses! ;-)

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » My Brain is Balanced…

Dad — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:18:29 -0000

Since this "copy/paste" of the HTML may not come out here, I scored left brain 12, right brain 3. Oh, my. HTML must be an all right brained idea.
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Right Brain/ Left Brain Quiz

The higher of these two numbers below indicates which side of your brain has dominance in your life. Realising your right brain/left brain tendancy will help you interact with and to understand others.

Left Brain Dominance: (12)Right Brain Dominance: (3)

Right Brain/ Left Brain Quiz

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » My Brain is Balanced…

Dad — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:54:08 -0000

Mom scored 6 left, 7 right. I figured she would be off the chart on right brained. But she is almost as balanced as you! I'm the unbalanced one!

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » My Brain is Balanced…

Dad — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:11:51 -0000

After analyzing her response, she is disappointed that she came out as balanced as she did. She wants to be more right brained than she is. She wants to be more artistic, more free, more talent in the arts, a musician, maybe a painter, interior designer. Wants to be a book reviewer/commentator. But, she is too balanced for these!

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Class connections…

Dad — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:26:06 -0000

It has gotta feel some good when things come together!

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Music Monday - Fun Fun Fun Fest Edition

Dad — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:29:17 -0000

I was hoping you would have a great time. I can see that was answered!

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Spring Break!

Dad — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:33:46 -0000

I figured you were dead when there was no reply to either Email or text messages....

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » February 2008 Watching/Reading/Gaming Recap

Dad — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:29:30 -0000

Hey, really enjoyed the recaps this month! Just printed off for Mom.

Re: Jandy’s Meanderings » Objective and Subjective Aesthetics

Dad — Sun, 04 May 2008 08:44:08 -0000

You write the question: "and who has the authority to choose that criteria?"

My answer: "It should be a centralized, government appointed panel of 5 experts. After they establish the criteria, all written material must be submitted to this panel for review and determination, and they must determine how well each submitted article matches the criteria, with a scoring. Only those articles that have a score of 95 or higher are licensed for publication, if the author hasn't died yet." :-)

Re: LA Update

Dad — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:41:10 -0000

It warms my heart to see your post! I'm so happy for you. Dad

Re: Featured Video: Frames of Reference

Dad — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:52:31 -0000

Just finished watching this. Plus reading the creator's post about it. I agree, very well done, and obviously with a lot of thought and work. Since I had not seen 80% of the films used, I know I missed A LOT, but it could see what he was doing with the "similar scenes" theme. Sorry Jonathan cannot use his real name on his blog.....

Re: The Great St Louis to Los Angeles Road Trip

Dad — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:54:12 -0000

Great traveloge post! I didn't know you picked all the music to listen to while driving that matched what you were doing at the time. Reminds me of Pastor Jeff picking all the hymns to match the sermon! Such coordination!

Re: Watch So You Think You Can Dance!

Dad — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:14:59 -0000

Wow! I might have even tuned for that. But since I am reading this on Thursday morning, I think I have missed it. Was the show taped in advance, or do they do these live?

Re: Pet Peeve: Security questions asking for your “favorite”

Dad — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:45:53 -0000

Well said! I have often worried about banks using "mother's maiden name" as it seem s that it would be easy for somebody to find out if they really wanted to. And they all seem to just love that one. I often use "favorite movie" and just vowed to never change no matter what new movie comes out that I like more.... First pet's name I guess is OK with me. Just can't use "pet's name"

Re: Featured Video: The Broadway Ballet

Dad — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:06:07 -0000

Wow! The Hollywood Bowl, huh? Glad you got to go and sounds like you really enjoyed the show.

Re: Film on TV: 15-21 December

Dad — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:20:07 -0000

Mom and I just finished "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington". Wow, this thing could have been filmed live in politics this week. With the Blagojevich scandal in Illinois now in full swing, I thought all through the film, the state is Illinois, and we are watching realtime news. Thanks for the heads up of what was going to be on TV this week!

Re: Featured Video: Star Wars Retold by Someone Who Hasn’t Seen It

Dad — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:15:58 -0000

Now I won't need to watch Star Wars trilogy, or quadrilogy, or whatever it is by now. I got the story! That 4 minute clip just saved me HOURS!

Re: http://www.the-frame.com/blog/2009/05/11/on-theatre-vs-film-or-my-biases-become-clarified/

Dad — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:28:10 -0000

What a great analysis of why you like a particular medium! I never think that much about such stuff. I either like it or I don't like it, but don't think much about why that really is. And to compare/contrast with another person and their reactions made this a really strong post to me. Very interesting. By the way, your fascination of moving the sets between scenes on a live stage is inherited. I am always captured by all the "other things going on to make a production work" when I see live plays. I forget what the story is about with the fascination of how fast they changed the set, and the motors that must be underneath the stage to make all that work so seamlessly.....

Re: Featured Video: Totally Like Whatever, You Know?

Dad — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:28:17 -0000

Fun to watch! And a great message in the poem, too!