Yesterday I read a book entitled The PC is Not a Typewriter. If you ‘re a nerd like me, you might enjoy it. The book was written in 1995, so I thought that it would be so out-dated and basic that I would have nothing to learn. But I was wrong. Some things are a bit beyond the needs of a dissertation (which is the goal of the course for which the book was assigned), but it was helpful to see some typewriter conventions that need not be carried over in computer use. One example that I will have a very hard time breaking: not putting two spaces after a period. I think, horror of horrors, that I even encouraged students to do this, and in years much more recent than 1995. On the other side, I wish that this was the only thing I taught incorrectly.
Randy Alcorn embraces biblical paradox and provides some good quotations from Spurgeon. One quotation: “My love of consistency with my own doctrinal views is not great enough to allow me knowingly to alter a single text of Scripture.” If you agree with that statement, you are on the road to dispensationalism.
One sermon I’m looking forward to preach will have as the primary application that true Christians don’t sit next to the aisle. But Jon Acuff says it so much better.
A baby carriage rolls and falls off the platform and is run over by a train. In some inexplicable way, the baby was not harmed.
It’s “dress up as a Bible character” night at Awana. You guessed it: Mark dressed up as David and Luke as Goliath.
Todd, we need to start a Two-Spaces-Before-The-Next-Sentence Club!
Trivia: The LMLK Research Website is full of “ampersand-N-B-S-P-semicolon” tags to ensure the two-space rule is maintained irrespective of the browser!
Todd,
I just wanted to say keep blogging. I greatly appreciate the finds and truths you share. It is a fun mix of ah-ha moments, WOW’s, AMEN’s, and laughter.
Argh! I can’t break the habit of the two spaces after a period. See?!