http://sio.jameswlanning.com Don't Panic Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:35:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today as I stepped out of my car I looked down to see water frozen in a very unique pattern. It was a puddle with leaves in it that had frozen and thawed several times, leaving layers of ice with pockets of water. It captured my imagination for ... http://sio.jameswlanning.com/2008/03/07/a-puddle-frozen-in-an-interesting-way/ The school system of England has declared Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" to be propaganda and is shown in school with a warning message in front of it making viewers aware of this fact. Still, the self-serving and hypocritical Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided that ... http://sio.jameswlanning.com/2007/12/21/rethinking-the-oscar-yet/ It was my last night as a member of the University Club. I extended my customary ten minute soak in the hot tub by another ten minutes, using the extra time to think over the last seven months. My plan to get washboard abs just by having the ... http://sio.jameswlanning.com/2007/12/05/still-moving-forward/ I recently downloaded all my undergraduate material from my personal drive at GVSU. It's great fun looking through it, and I can't imagine I actually did all that stuff. There are lots of journals for various classes (many of them in German which I can't figure out anymore), ... http://sio.jameswlanning.com/2007/11/15/journal-excerpts-9112001/ - FreeRice.com is something you should look at. Save the world from starvation and improve your vocabulary at the same time! - If you're interested in public service, and who isn't, you should read this article about redefining public service. I agree with some of the points ... http://sio.jameswlanning.com/2007/11/13/quick-hits-for-november/ What you're looking at is a Glock 19 safe-action pistol, and I am now a proud owner of one of them. You'll recall a post on SIO a while ago in which I bemoaned the fact that morons out there blamed the Virginia Tech massacre on American gun culture ... http://sio.jameswlanning.com/2007/09/08/kept-and-borne/ Times have been slow on SIO, and if I don't make a post some time in the next 36 hours I'm in danger of not having anything in the archives for August 2007. That would probably be some sign of decay in other webrogs, but not SIO. As ... http://sio.jameswlanning.com/2007/08/30/something-for-august/ With the addition of "ginormous" to Merriam-Webster's dictionary, what once was a pseudo-word used only by youngsters and Will Ferrell fans has finally gotten clean. I saw the word on a billboard on the way home from church recently, and to be honest it doesn't look good. It's ... http://sio.jameswlanning.com/2007/07/29/english-language-nazis-can-take-a-seat/ As I had hoped, going to Covfamikoi did a good job of getting me out of the spiritual rut I so often find myself in. Most areas of life go in hills and valleys; good times and bad. I can only assume the rest of life will be ... http://sio.jameswlanning.com/2007/07/17/sorting-it-out/ I was recently thinking about how when a single woman gets pregnant, we say she "got pregnant". Like I just did, no less than one sentence ago. The phrase is errant, in my opinion, because it only tells half the story. Someone not well-educated in how stuff ... http://sio.jameswlanning.com/2007/07/06/two-way-streets/