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AFI’s 100 YEARS…100 MOVIE QUOTES were released last night in a three hour television special. I watched maybe 5 minutes of it, but here are the top 10 quotes:

“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn,” Clark Gable, “Gone With The Wind”
“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse,” Marlon Brando, “The [...]

Saw this quiz on Fully Devoted.

You scored as Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan.You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God’s grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift of the Holy Spirit gives you assurance of your salvation, and he also enables you to [...]

If you have been following the Reds this season (or recent years for that matter), this probably won’t come to a shock to you, but at a press conference today, GM Dan O’Brien announced the firing of manager Dave Miley and pitching coach Don Gullett. Though the firings didn’t come as a surprise [...]

Boy, can I agree with this!
From Yahoo! News - Programming Jobs Losing Luster in U.S.
As tens of thousands of engineering jobs migrate to developing countries, many new entrants into the U.S. work force see info tech jobs as monotonous, uncreative and easily farmed out — the equivalent of 1980s manufacturing jobs.
The research firm Gartner Inc. [...]

Aaahhh… What a fantastic weekend I had! It was one of those weekends where I didn’t have much down time to relax but didn’t mind it at all.
Things kicked off on Friday night after work with a hike at one of my favorite local trails, at Boone County Cliffs State Nature Preserve. [...]

I’m working on cleaning out my queue of bookmarks/clips/drafts of things that I thought were interesting and wanted to blog, but hadn’t yet got around to. Some of them are pretty old, but still relevant and informative, so I’ll try to post them over the next couple of days.
First up are some articles on [...]

This is a little late for all of you who just graduated, but here are some helpful tips for note-taking. Hey, it could still be useful in your job! I found it interesting, so I’m passing it along.
Working Smart: Recovering the Lost Art of Note-Taking
Here’s an excerpt from the write-up. Read [...]

As some of you know, I play dodgeball once a week in a league sponsored by the Boone County Parks and Recreation Department. Last night, a photographer and reporter were hanging around as we played. Turns out they were getting material for an article about dodgeball that would be in today’s Kentucky Enquirer. [...]

In a recent radio interview, I was sternly asked by the host, who did not consider himself a Christian, to defend Christianity. I told him that I couldn’t do it, and moreover, that I didn’t want to defend the term. He asked me if I was a Christian, and I told him yes. [...]

A friend of mine, a young pastor who recently started a church, talks to me from time to time about the new face of church in America - about the postmodern church. He says the new church will be different from the old one, that we will be relebant to culture and the human [...]