Friday, July 31, 2009

What is France?

I wonder at what age children become aware of the existence of other countries?

Occurred to me when, while looking at a sketch of Paris, I was joined by a three-year-old. I told him it was a picture of France, which is another country. I'm pretty sure he did not entirely grasp the concept.

Monday, July 27, 2009

"Fuzzy" studies indeed!

Much as I hate to ever pick on people, I really think this outrage calls for a post.

It was a great weekend with Ardith and some of her LeTourneau pals - and Justin, of course. However, most of them had majored in a nice hard B.S., even my little brother. And we all know - at least, Mr. Vengeful Cynic knows - that everything besides a B.S. is "fuzzy".

Well, I beg to differ. Some of the humanities may be fuzzy, but foreign languages definitely are not. I mean to prove they should be ranked along with math and science. In fact, I'm really shocked that Spanish or Russian or Chinese (especially Chinese...) would not be a B.S.

But plunging into that really calls for a good night's sleep.

Monday, July 06, 2009

Some 1700 miles later...

... back home.

Seeing as it's 8:30 PM, let's leave any detailed trip accounts for the future, except for the following couple points which I would like to make:

1) South Carolina wins the award for Most Unnavigable State. Particularly since their street names - when posted - are frequently found in small letters on a little post at the opposite side of the six-lane road from you.

2) It's great fun to have friends with whom everyday chatting can be defined as "discussing theological, hermenutical, or philosophical issues".