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Sunday’s Best: What’s Your Bicycle?
Today’s classic Calvin and Hobbes strip was the best of the bunch. Visually fun with simple dialogue that reconnects to Calvin’s dad’s “builds character” line from a number of earlier strips. We all have a bike like Calvin, even if … Continue reading
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Seen and Believed
It’s crazy to me that it’s been three months since Apple TV+ dropped this teaser trailer for the third (and supposedly final) season of Ted Lasso. It’s been three months, yes, and the background song hasn’t played a role in … Continue reading
Sunday’s Best: Breaking the Vicious Cycle
It’s impressive that Calvin can be onto two things at once: both our obsessions and the fact that relieving those obsessions closes the consumeristic loop (that he would ultimately benefit from). Today’s classic Calvin and Hobbes: (image from gocomics.com)
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Where Credit is Due
In more than one way and all at once, ChatGPT is all the rage. Some school people love it; some school people hate it. Most of us aren’t quite sure what to do with it (unless you’ve already been thinking … Continue reading
On the Remarkable Ordinary
These last couple of weeks, my morning reading has been a slow (mostly re-)read of Frederick Buechner’s The Remarkable Ordinary. It was one of the last two books of Buechner’s to be published before his death last August. I started … Continue reading
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Lucy’s Communication Theory
Lucy was back at love again in this past Sunday’s classic Peanuts strip by Charles Schulz. It’s a great picture of communication theory, in theory. You’ve got message encoded but a decoding that just doesn’t line up. That’s the way … Continue reading
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“Because We Are Written”
Brad East has been blogging a bit more recently. His take on academics and AI is pretty genius (and something I’ve shared with a number of co-workers). He also recently posted a piece on fantasy literature, comedy, and the question … Continue reading
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“Waiting is Our Friend”
Probably the thinker who has influenced me most these last five years when it comes to faith and church life is Andrew Root. His writing on church life in a secular age has been a vital way for me to … Continue reading
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Sunday’s Best: The Source and the Solution (Exam Edition)
This weeks FoxTrot shows one way to celebrate the season: by providing the solution to a problem for which you can also be the source. I suppose this is a kind of innovation? I gave my last exam a couple … Continue reading
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Sunday’s Best: Flight of the May Bee
Not a lot of Mother’s Day humor in the funny pages today, but there was a nice “picture” of the beauty of the month of May in today’s Frazz. Of course in Tennessee, June bugs don’t show up until early … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 