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Around the Blogosphere
I recently caught up on some of my blog reading, and here are a few highlights: Jeremy Thompson seems committed to keep the biblioblog monthly rankings going. Rod Decker has a nice morphology resource for first or second year Greek students. Pdf here. At Current Epigraphy, Gabriel Bodard summarizes a seminar presentation by Graham Oliver… Continue Reading
US Government Worried about Spending?
Once upon a time. Mike Anderson recently discussed how the United States Constitutional Convention debated the form of governments employed by ancient and modern empires. Regarding how many senators ought to be elected from each state, Mike reports that “the convention debated two versus three, but decided three would be too expensive.” Senate.gov recalls: During… Continue Reading
Rumor has it
that Jim West is back. Continue Reading
Interview with Richard B. Hays by J Anderson
John Anderson has a nice interview with Richard Hays of Duke University up at his blog. I found Hays’ background interesting, as well as some of his evaluative comments on this and that. A couple great lines: One of the problems with biblical scholarship is that the guild becomes preoccupied with methodology, at the expense… Continue Reading
Booking online: My Recommendation
Tim recently discussed the booking “fiasco” he endured in planning his SBL trip last year. Jim West responded and offered a recommendation (kayak.com). My recommendation: priceline.com! I’ve used the site a few times and I have been quite pleased. My SBL booking Using priceline, a friend and I were able to fly round trip from KC to… Continue Reading
Jim West Shuts Down His Blog
In a sense, I was surprised, but then again, Jim has always done as he pleased. He became bored with his blog and shut ‘er down (according to his comments elsewhere). Simple as that! Perhaps his leave is temporary. In any case, I hope nobody tries to reduplicate his blog… I doubt it is possible,… Continue Reading
WordPress Missed Schedule Fix
I sometimes schedule posts a few days ahead of time, but recently such attempts have failed. The post reads “missed schedule.” This began to happen after I updated to the latest version of WordPress about a week or two ago. This is a test post for the following fix, suggested by Otto42 here. In short,… Continue Reading
Fun on the Job
Yes, they make millions playing a game, but you’ve gotta love the fun, right? Work hard. Work well. And have fun doing it! Continue Reading
Like nothing you've heard: !Xóõ language
I ran upon the mp3 sample of the language via Google after reading an article mentioned by Dave Black and Rod Decker on the difficulty of various languages. The following link is to an mp3 from the UCLA Phonetics Lab archive. A good sample of the !Xóõ language begins about halfway through the mp3. mp3 link… Continue Reading